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Pearls and Irritations – Public policy journal

Read progressive, liberal commentary on issues that impact Australians. Our daily articles focus on politics, public policy and world affairs.

  • By John Menadue, et al.
  • Based in Australia and United States of America
  • Roughly 10 posts per day
  • First post on

Posts per month

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Dec 2022 148
Jan 2023 207
Feb 2023 198
Mar 2023 238
Apr 2023 218
May 2023 231
Jun 2023 217
Jul 2023 230
Aug 2023 233
Sep 2023 223
Oct 2023 234
Nov 2023 222
Dec 2023 238
Jan 2024 294
Feb 2024 261
Mar 2024 259
Apr 2024 246
May 2024 280
Jun 2024 272
Jul 2024 283
Aug 2024 262
Sep 2024 281
Oct 2024 288
Nov 2024 275
Dec 2024 264
Jan 2025 142

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Under the spell of denial: the Khmer Rouge in New York and Netanyahu in Washington
Few alliance nations would ponder how the cadence of Netanyahu’s speech inside Congress put them under the spell of denial. This is akin to the Khmer Rouge (government in exile) that was invited to hold …
On , by Peg LeVine, 61 words
Entering the ‘Pyrocene’: Devastation in California is the harbinger of the apocalypse
Wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire. The apocalyptic wildfires …
On , by Chris Hedges, 75 words
The fall of Israeli impunity: The world is starting to hold Tel Aviv accountable for the Gaza genocide
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil. Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, …
On , by Ramzy Baroud, 80 words