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Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country's recent war with Iran had created "opportunities" for freeing hostages held by Hamas...
Iran warned Sunday that it had little faith in Israel's commitment to a fragile ceasefire that ended the most intense and destructive confrontation...
Britain is preparing to emulate the United States by appointing an envoy tasked with freeing citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, as it faces...
A court hearing that could upend the leadership of Turkey's main opposition CHP is the latest bid to hobble the party behind a wave of spring...
Around 140,000 protesters rallied in Belgrade, the largest turnout in recent months, as student-led demonstrations mount pressure on the populist...
Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...
Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...
When Moscow invaded Ukraine, Pavel Talankin, a staff member at a secondary school in Russia's Ural Mountains, was ordered to film patriotic...
What if instead of trying to detect and avoid AI glitches, we deliberately encouraged them instead?
One standout from this month’s list is Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an awe-inspiring thriller that changed the film industry forever when it was...
Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than...
Is the cost of research aimed at curing HIV worth it, when HIV can be effectively managed and prevented by existing drugs?
The US president wants separate spheres of influence dominated by the US, China and Russia. For small states, this new world order poses both risks...
The Lord Mayor of Adelaide Dr Jane Lomax-Smith responds to last week’s op-ed from Bruce Djite with her own column, and says the role of Council in...
Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...
Greens spokesperson for foreign affairs, peace and nuclear disarmament, David Shoebridge, speaks to Green Left’s Suzanne James. They discuss the...
“Real museums are places where time is transformed into space,” Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel laureate, writes in his 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence....
In late 1980s Hungary, courageous environmental protests against an unpopular dam project played a part in the eventual collapse of the country’s...
Strongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the streets in our hundreds of thousands with banners and...
US President Donald Trump’s second term has sent the global economy into a tailspin with a torrent of tariffs announced on 2 April. In doing so,...
The May 2025 election delivered something quietly historic. For the first time since the 1970s, the Labor Left faction holds a majority in caucus....
One way to get a robust, comparative fix on how obscene American global preaching about human rights has become is (borrowing a vivid image from...
If you want to advertise a house online in Australia, you don’t have many options. Just two companies dominate the market. Australia’s largest...
I have argued elsewhere (Asia Sentinel, 24/5/2025) that five factors could throw the US$245 billion AUKUS deal off balance following the recent...
Australia’s health policy in relation to vapes is in disarray. Yet this deeply flawed approach is currently supported by all state, federal and...
Stand in any car park on a sunny day in February and the heat will radiate through your shoes. At 30°C air temperature, that asphalt hits 50–55°C –...
Iran’s grievance, moral or legal, against Israel and the United States over the bombing of nuclear sites is not assisted by the fact that Israel...
Tomorrow, thirty-four years after I nominated a 12% wage equivalent as the appropriate level of compulsory contribution into superannuation, the...
An aging generation of mostly male leaders is presently occupying the commanding heights of the most powerful states around the world. They share a...
The government’s policy on obesity, announced on Sunday, sounds as though it’s tough on the supermarkets: they really must do better on the health...
If I hear another well-intentioned person justifying their support for the regulation of AI with the qualifier “I’m no luddite, but …” I’m going to...
Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...
The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...
The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...
The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...
The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...
Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...
Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...
Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...
Premier Chris Minns’ practice of putting pragmatism above principle on drug law reform is ordinary social policy and only delays the inevitable. He...
Monday caps off a wild financial year for global markets, and therefore, for the retirement savings of just about all of us. But despite all the...
Without being too rosy-eyed, the possibility of a new ceasefire in Gaza looks the best it has since death took a brief holiday in January when US...