🌿 Your Peace Pulse
Explore inspiring stories, grassroots movements, and peace-building initiatives from around the globe.
Browse by Category
Australia’s major parties have lost ‘courage’ on Indigenous affairs, Mick Gooda says
After making the voice a centrepiece of 2022 election, Labor and Coalition instead push ‘practical action’Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:
Share on Facebook
Share in Tweet (rip twitter)
Share on LinkedIn
Share on Reddit
Share on Threads
Share on Bluesky
In the event of a hung parliament, one wildcard has been largely overlooked – the Nationals
If Peter Dutton needs to court the crossbench to form minority government after the election, he would risk putting his Coalition partner offside on climate and environment policyElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Rednote used to spread false claims about ‘wicked’ policy on Chinese Australians and citizenship
Exclusive: Posts that falsely claim Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are targeting Chinese Australians are cited by experts as examples of disinformationElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Labor to consider WTO challenge if Trump targets Australia with ‘liberation day’ tariffs
Some government sources anticipate tariffs of up to 20% across all exports to the US in broad-brush regimeElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Labor wants to give the minimum wage a real boost. The benefits would likely outweigh any downsides
A real boost to award wages is unlikely to drive up inflation, nor adversely impact productivity. But it would provide cost-of-living relief to Australia’s lowest-paid workers.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Pocock says Dutton ‘punching down’ on Canberra – as it happened
This blog is now closedLabor to consider WTO challenge if Trump targets Australia with ‘liberation day’ tariffsAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastForeign...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Election diary: Dutton tries to shake off Trump dust and avoid being trapped on wages
As we prepare for Trump’s “Liberation Day”, both sides of the campaign are bracing to see how Trump will affect the campaign.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Pink slime and ‘truthpapers’: why more local news publications is not necessarily better
While small publications are springing up to fill “news deserts” there are concerns around quality and transparency.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:New research lays bare the harsh realities facing artists and arts workers
Artists and arts workers are facing financial stress, gender pay gaps, long hours and unstable work – with many leaving the sector as a result.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Can you tell the difference between real and fake news photos? Take the quiz to find out
As the tide of AI ‘slop’ rises, it’s more important than ever to hone your reality-checking skills.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:US Senator Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours in Congress. What was he trying to achieve?
US senators engage in lengthy speeches when they are losing. This is clearly what motivated Cory Booker’s 25-hour speech: a sense the Democrats are losing to Trump.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:New NZ TV series Happiness gives us an engaging musical peak behind the amateur theatre curtain
With their new show Happiness, Kip Chapman and Luke Di Somma have created a welcome New Zealand answer to the backstage musical TV show.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:The Medical Research Future Fund has grown far beyond its target. Why is so much of the money unused?
Trump’s war on science is threatening even Australian research projects. So why does a growing pot of medical research funds remain unallocated?
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:I loved being a principal, but Australia has grown complacent about the growing violence directed at educators | Andy Mison
School principals are resilient but, in an alarming number of cases, their job harms them. We would not tolerate these conditions in other workplacesI’ve been lucky. I’ve enjoyed a rewarding career in education, including almost 15 years as a principal in the Northern Territory and the ACT. I’ve worked with wonderful teachers and administrative staff, and shared in the successes of hundreds of young people and their...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Australia election 2025 live: Dutton hints at cuts to ABC if he finds ‘waste’; Coalition to designate gas a ‘critical mineral’
Coalition senator Susan McDonald told a gas industry conference in Sydney the Coalition government’s plan if elected. Follow today’s news liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:NSW Health doctors to strike for three days over working conditions
NSW Health doctors will take part in a three-day strike next week to protest unsustainable workloads and chronic understaffing.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1
LP.8.1, a descendant of Omicron, is driving a growing proportion of COVID infections in Australia and elsewhere.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:A US senator has been speaking for 24 hours and he is still going
He began speaking at 7pm local time in Washington on Monday and is still going, more than 24 hours and 18 minutes later.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Could you watch 8 plays in 12 hours? How The Player Kings creates binge-worthy Shakespeare
This new production from Sport for Jove presents eight of Shakepeare’s history plays in order. It is stupendously absorbing and exquisitely realised.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it
China’s vast middle class is now changing its values, aspirations and consumption habits in an era of much slower economic growth – dubbed ‘garbage time’.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks
Nomi AI is marketed as an “AI companion with memory and a soul”. But it has a much darker side which highlights the urgent need for enforceable AI safety standards.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Sydney's coast battered by massive swells and king tides
Huge swells, a massive king tide and storm surges have battered some of Sydney's beaches including Bondi in the city's east and Cronulla in the south overnight, with more damage set to come with another large high tide forecast later today.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Treated effluent water to grow crops, saving rivers and oceans
An irrigation scheme will divert nutrient-rich, treated effluent water to crops instead of into sensitive waterways after a $120 million project secured final approval in south-east Queensland.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Renewed calls for mountain bike hub at site of former SA golf course
It has been four years since a master plan for the Belair golf course site was abandoned following negative feedback about proposed soccer fields, but support for a mountain bike hub remains.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Australia will soon be second in the world for retirement savings
Our superannuation funds have to find $3.2 billion worth of things to invest in, every week. Is that pool of money a risk to our financial stability?
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Schools close as NSW communities brace for significant flash flooding
A dozen schools have been closed and some residents are being told to prepare for isolation ahead of flooding expected in the state's north-west.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Regional councils demand more federal cash as they pick up services
South Australian councils say they need more federal funding allocated as communities call for improved services ahead of the federal election.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Israel says plenty of food in Gaza, UN says that's 'ridiculous'
Israel says more than 400,000 tonnes of aid entered Gaza during the ceasefire and there is plenty of food, but a UN spokesperson says, "as far as the UN is concerned, that's ridiculous … we are at the tail end of our supplies".
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:One of the toughest transport routes in the world makes March's photos of the month
From an election triumph, to a prayer for peace — the ABC's finest photographers roamed far and wide to capture these stunning images throughout the month of March.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Communities grapple with overtourism as social media fuels popularity
Local communities say they need help managing overtourism as mass visitation creates issues for wildlife, raises evacuation concerns, and poses safety risks.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:$150m high-rise to replace Darwin city council headquarters
The Darwin city council will soon begin building a $150 million CBD high-rise to replace its aging civic centre, in partnership with property developer DCOH.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Live: ASX rises, Star fails to secure Salter Brothers loan, gold soars
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher after Wall Street benchmarks ended in mixed fashion, as investors were caught in limbo ahead of the impending tariff announcements from the Trump administration. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:A horror accident left Christina paraplegic. Now she's creating history in a new sport
A horror motorcycle accident left Christina Vithoulkas with complete loss of feeling and movement below her T5 vertebra. She is now the world's first female para drifter.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Child suffers life-threatening injuries after being hit by teenage driver
The young child remains in hospital in a serious condition, and the driver is assisting police.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Morning Mail: Sabsabi’s Biennale ‘torture’, election candidates on Rednote, Trump tariff countdown
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterGood morning. Khaled Sabsabi, the artist dumped as Australia’s representative at the Venice Biennale, has savaged the decision to drop him, accusing Creative Australia of subjecting him to “torture” and of dismantling his career. We have an exclusive interview, plus another scoop on...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source: