🌿 Your Peace Pulse
Explore inspiring stories, grassroots movements, and peace-building initiatives from around the globe.
Browse by Category
‘We don’t have a cultural place for men as victims’: why men often don’t tell anyone about sexual abuse
Men wait an average of 21 years before telling anyone they were sexually abused. A new study looks at why men often don’t disclose sexual abuse and assaults.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:
Share on Facebook
Share in Tweet (rip twitter)
Share on LinkedIn
Share on Reddit
Share on Threads
Share on Bluesky
National standards by stealth? Why the government’s latest plan for schools might fail the history test
Standardised testing has been tried and scrapped before. But with a tender for a new ‘standardised assessment tool’, the government appears to be trying again.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:The ‘hot mess’ Olympics? How Queensland’s 2032 Games planning descended into farce
The LNP’s vision is for an Olympics held in venues rather than a city – and guarantees controversy across Brisbane and beyondFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFew people in Queensland disagreed with the former state premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, when she described plans for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane as a “hot mess”.Tuesday’s...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:The 2025 Australian federal budget: here's what you need to know – video
A deficit, a Medicare boost and power bill relief were all things expected in Tuesday night's budget. But what else was in there, and what does Jim Chalmers' 2025 budget mean for Australians? Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains this year's winners, losers and surprisesCoalition will not support Labor’s budget tax cuts, Angus Taylor saysWhat the budget means for your generation – gen Z, millennial, gen X or...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Federal budget 2025: watch treasurer Jim Chalmers' full budget speech – video
Weeks away from a federal election, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, hands down his fourth budget, saying it is aimed at helping with the cost of living while the Australian economy is 'turning the corner'. The budget includes tax and energy bill relief, a cap on the price of medicine and a boost to Medicare. After overseeing back-to-back surpluses thanks to booming commodity prices and a strong labour market, the budget...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Federal budget 2025: Chalmers delivers speech spruiking tax cuts and energy relief – video
Weeks away from a federal election, Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down his fourth budget, saying it is aimed at helping with the cost of living while the Australian economy is 'turning the corner'. The budget includes tax and energy bill relief, a cap on the price of medicine and a boost to Medicare. After overseeing back-to-back surpluses thanks to booming commodity prices and a strong labour market, the budget will...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Jim Chalmers’ 2025 budget speech abridged and annotated – the economy is OK and we’re heading into an election
What the treasurer said – and what we can read between the lines of the budget night speechLive updates: Australia federal budget 2025 latest news and reactionThe complete 2025 Australian budget: choose the news coverage that matters to youExplore all of our 2025 federal budget coverage Continue reading...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Australia budget 2025: the seven graphs you need to see | Greg Jericho
These are pure Labor tax cuts – just what the ALP should be all about – but why are we still letting gas companies get off scot-free?Live updates: Australia federal budget 2025 latest news and reactionExplore all of our 2025 Australia federal budget coverageEarly budgets before an election are often troubling affairs. The government usually doesn’t want to give away its entire election strategy.In the past such budgets...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Albanese government bids for votes with ‘top-up’ tax cuts for all
Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced surprise tax cuts while talking about “storm clouds” gathering in the global economy.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:At a glance: the 2025 federal budget
Here’s what you need to know about the big spends in Labor’s last budget before the election.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:A ‘modest’ tax bribe, delivered against dark clouds of Trump-induced uncertainty
US President Donald Trump isn’t mentioned by name. But he is the colossus in the background of this budget.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:The 2025 budget has few savings and surprises but it also ignores climate change
The Budget Paper 2 book, which contains new measures, is a slim document.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Tax cuts are coming, but not soon, in a cautious budget
An average worker will get $268 but not until mid-2026.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Why is the US group chat on Houthi attack plans so concerning? A military operations expert explains
Top US officials discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels on an unclassified platform with a journalist. Here are 3 questions answered by a former ADF operations specialist.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:A budget splash to conserve 30% of Australia’s lands will save species – if we choose the right 30%
Protecting 30% of Australian lands sounds good – but what matters much more is whether we’re protecting dwindling habitat for endangered species.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Brisbane 2032 Olympics: David Crisafulli announces new stadium, breaking election promise – video
Queensland premier David Crisafulli has announced a new $3.8b, 63,000 seat venue at Brisbane’s Victoria Park as part of plans for a main stadium and other venues for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to the plan, the Gabba is slated for demolition, to be replaced by residential development. A long-planned Brisbane Live Arena won’t receive $2.5bn in commonwealth taxpayer funding, instead the private...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Technology has shaped human knowledge for centuries. Generative AI is set to transform it yet again
From clay tablets to electronic tablets, technology has played an influential role in shaping human knowledge for centuries.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Wage theft is now a criminal offence in NZ – investigating it shouldn’t be left to the police
Australia has adopted a tougher, more targeted approach than New Zealand to investigating wage theft by employers – and it doesn’t involve the police.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:The ICC showed its might by arresting Rodrigo Duterte. Its reputation will take longer to fix
The ICC is often criticised for being ineffective when it doesn’t act, and biased when it does.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Why does my kid eat so well at childcare but not at home?
Some kids live a ‘double life’ when it comes to eating habits. But there are six ways to bring childcare eating habits home.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival
These five captivating films offer a snapshot of the very best of contemporary French cinema
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Lawmakers worldwide want to talk to the Meta insider whose memoir is a US bestseller – after Zuckerberg took her to court
Meta has issued a court order to stop former senior employee Sarah Wynn-Williams from discussing her memoir – despite its new commitment to ‘free expression’.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:What’s the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles?
A big freckle or a sunspot? A flat mole or a dark freckle? Here’s how to tell the difference between the three –and when to get a spot checked for skin cancer.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far
A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Will $1 on your ticket help save Australian live music? A UK model is much more ambitious
The newly launched Australian Music Venue Foundation is partly modelled on the United Kingdom’s Music Venue Trust, but the UK model has a more radical approach.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Breast cancer screening is ripe for change. We need to assess a woman’s risk – not just her age
A fundamental shake-up of how we screen women for breast cancer could save more lives from the disease. Here are some options of how this could look.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science
Some academic publishers have been accused by scientists of being “too greedy” and prioritising profit over research integrity.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Trump silences the Voice of America: end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?
By defunding the Voice of America and other state-funded US media outlets, Donald Trump risks opening the airwaves to the more overt propaganda of rival countries.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:4 key changes you may have missed in the new school funding agreement
In some good news for Australian students, there is now a firm plan to ‘fully fund’ public schools by 2034.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Federal budget 2025: here’s what we know so far
In an election year, federal budgets are rarely huge surprises. Here’s a list of funding announcements the government has already made.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Synchronised bleaching: Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching in unison for the first time
A marine heatwave has hit Ningaloo Reef hard –and the northern Great Barrier Reef is now bleaching too.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Monique Ryan's husband confronted after removing Liberal campaign sign from Melbourne yard – video
The video, supplied to Guardian Australia by Coalition sources, shows independent MP Monique Ryan's husband, Peter Jordan, walking down the street with the large sign. When the person filming the video asks why he took it down, Jordan replies, ‘Because it’s on public land’, and declines to give his identity when asked. Continue reading...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Albanese announces federal government has reached agreement to fully fund public schools – video
Australia's prime minister Anthony Albanese says his government has now reached a school funding agreement with all states and territories, with Queensland the last state to sign on. 'What the agreements between the commonwealth and our eight state and territory governments have delivered is that every student, regardless of which school they go to, will receive this funding,' the prime minister says‘Apoplectic’...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: