Health authorities report the death toll in Gaza has reached 40 thousand. Meanwhile a deal to bring home the remaining Israeli hostages remains elusive.Peace talks continue in hopes of securing a ceasefire and averting an escalation of ...

Blood products designed to save lives in the 1970s and 80s did the very opposite. They were contaminated with HIV and hepatitis. It left over 30,000 people infected. An enquiry in the U.K. has recommended a large-scale...

Children are suffering in conflicts across the globe.Globally, over 43 million children have been forced to flee their homes. Wars in places like Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and Haiti - just to name a few - are having a devastating impact on y...

More than a decade of abuse scandals have rocked the Catholic Church, and shifting social values have alienated its flock.In the west, Catholicism is in decline. Just 17.5-percent of Americans identify as Catholic. In Australia young pe...

The Holy Land is at war this Christmas. Israel and Hamas are engaged in a bitter battle. As is so often the case, civilians are caught in the cross-fire.So is peace possible in the Middle East? Might the road to peace run...

Global hunger has reached unprecedented levels. A combination of war and climate change is having a devastating impact on the food security of over 22-million children across the globe.Can hunger and famine be beaten?World Visio...

In the last 50 years, China has lifted more people out of poverty than anywhere else in human history. Chinese society has been transformed, and so too has the economy. Indeed, it’s now second only to the United States with a GDP of almost 18-t...

The end of the cold war promised a golden-age of peace and human rights, but the reality has been quite different. From the brutal war in Ukraine, to authoritarian governments cracking down on citizens. I ask international jurist M...

Is social media compatible with democracy? Across the western world democracies are riddled with division, much of it blamed on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

The Voice is a proposal to give Australian first nations people a constitutionally enshrined right to be heard by government.

Can the World's economy keep growing, regardless of the impact on natural resources and the environment?Is long-term economic growth sustainable? Do the wealthy  benefit most from it? Can capitalism survive the 21st century without...

Last year the Worldwide aid budget topped 179-billion US-dollars. It was an all time high, but is it delivering for the World’s poor? Most of the poorest people on the planet live in subsaharan Africa, yet poverty remains entrenched. In...