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The Iran war has revealed how instability can become a powerful political instrument that benefits insiders and gives them incentives to prolong...
Australia’s steep cigarette excise increases and restrictive vaping policies have fuelled a massive illegal tobacco market while undermining the...
Australia generates world-class research in clean energy but we are still not good at commercialising that knowledge. Australia keeps asking why it...
Instead of a blanket ban on social media for under 16-year-olds, listening to young peoples’ ideas about how to tackle the harm would be more...
The detention and public humiliation of Australian citizens aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla raises broader questions about whether Australia applies...
We have collectively created a self-propelling destructive system that no-one is in charge of. The 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough reminded...
Timber plantations now provide the overwhelming majority of Australia’s sawn wood products and will become even more important as native forest...
Whether you’re an ‘innie’ or an ‘outie’, the television series Severance resonates so deeply because its vision of fragmented identity,...
Believing in their military might, neither Putin nor Trump considered the consequences of their attacks on Ukraine and Iran. Now their wars are...
Trump’s visit to Beijing reveals how the balance of power – bilaterally and globally – has shifted to China’s advantage. How polished are the...
The morality Tom Uren learned on the Burma railway stayed with him all his life. He believed in the collective spirit. That did not make him weak. Tom...
The 2026 budget is a continuation of the Labor Government’s denial of the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions before the climate reaches a...
Like many I was revolted by the video of Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting and humiliating courageous international citizens determined to get supplies to...
A formal apology in Tasmania’s parliament for the past practice of taking human specimens from autopsies and displaying them highlights the...
Observers in China detect the possibility of ’trilateral coordination’ between China, Russia and the United States, with the US the biggest...
Cricket is now managed by business interests, making the lucrative T20 game a more attractive investment than the traditional centrepiece of the game,...
The public humiliation and mistreatment of Gaza flotilla activists violated core protections under international humanitarian law governing the...
Xi’s latest terms for the American relationship, Trump’s post-summit verbal meandering, cybercrime operations’ new base, the west’s dominance...
Australia is part of the white man’s intelligence network, Five Eyes. That means too much CIA input into anti-China perceptions in recent years. It...
The government’s capital gains tax reforms are likely to increase tax for some investors, but claims they will destroy wealth creation or aspiration...
A rare public rebuke of Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir by US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has highlighted growing international condemnation over the...
The greatest single cause of the recent rise of antisemitism in Australia is the behaviour of Israel, which the Australian Government has not...
A bipartisan Senate vote to advance a War Powers Resolution against Operation Epic Fury marks a significant challenge to the Trump administration’s...
In a statement from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s US arm, organisers say Israeli forces carried out a prolonged assault on civilian aid boats in...
Paul Keating says the Howard-Costello capital gains tax discount distorted the tax system, inflated housing prices and entrenched inequality between...
The Coalition’s plan to strip welfare access from non-citizens could accelerate a surge in citizenship and voter enrolment across migrant-heavy...
A personal reflection on Nakba Day, intergenerational trauma, exile and the experience of carrying Palestinian identity and grief while living in the...
The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions’ increasingly emotive and promotional social media presence raises broader questions about whether...
A US jury dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI on procedural grounds, leaving unresolved deeper questions about whether the company has...
Despite the economic and humanitarian shock triggered by the Iran war, Australia’s latest foreign aid budget failed to deliver the kind of...
The appointment of a new Commonwealth Public Service Commissioner highlights deeper structural problems inside the Public Service Commission, from...
A United Nations special rapporteur has documented extensive allegations of torture, sexual violence and abuse against Palestinian detainees held in...
The recent Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing may not have resolved major geopolitical disputes, but renewed dialogue between the United States and China...
In a speech to a colloquium on John Hay’s Open Door Policy, former US diplomat Chas Freeman argues that America’s current approach to China is...
Australia’s correctional system remains heavily focused on incarceration and punishment while failing to build a coordinated national framework to...
Australia’s housing crisis reflects not just a shortage of homes but the structural limits of a system that relies overwhelmingly on private...
Proposals to slash Australia’s tobacco excise ignore the basic economics of the illegal cigarette market, where untaxed products would remain...
The government’s main policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gases only covers a small proportion of emissions and allows companies to offset...
Advocates of liberal democracy everywhere are celebrating Péter Magyar’s triumph over Viktor Orbán. But among the lessons to draw from the...
As Washington and Beijing reshape the Indo-Pacific order through direct negotiation, Australia risks remaining strategically reactive instead of...
Angus Taylor’s budget reply speech may appeal to One Nation supporters, but it doesn’t provide credible answers to the nation’s problems. For as...
India has shifted from decades of economic protectionism to an outward-looking strategy built on trade, investment and global integration,...
The 2026 Budget marks a rare moment where Labor showed some willingness to confront inequality and tax reform, but the government still shrank from...
The Nakba is not simply an historical event but an ongoing system of displacement, erasure and resistance that continues to shape Palestinian identity...
Food banks across the United States are reporting surging demand as cuts to food assistance, rising prices and inflation leave millions of vulnerable...
The World Health Organization has declared the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a global health emergency...
From climate change and extinction to groundwater depletion and chemical pollution, human activity is now transforming the Earth on a geological scale...
The war between the US and Iran is increasingly being driven by the self-reinforcing dynamics of escalation, retaliation and mistrust that make...
Many proposals to create so-called ‘healthy forests’ through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already...
Polling suggests support for impeaching Donald Trump has returned to levels seen during Watergate and Trump’s first presidency, even as the US...
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