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Is it just biosecurity that should worry us, or is there a much bigger danger?

James Beattie

The principal barrier to a rapid energy transition

Mark Diesendorf

The new Commonwealth office of Multicultural Affairs unveiled

Peter Hughes

Activists read out names of 17,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza

Brianna Boecker

How Chinese diaspora voters reshape Australian and US politics

Wanning Sun

A strange thing happened last week on the way to the office of Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba

Gregory Clark

'Everything beautiful in their lives is gone': US physicians read aloud the searing testimony of desperate doctors and patients in Gaza

Linda Pentz Gunter

Ley must be saved from drowning over net zero

Jack Waterford

Mass Palestinian starvation used as a weapon of war - Bob Carr

Bob Carr

Guilty of the 'crime' of being Palestinian. Punishment: execution

Robert Fantina

How’s my lippy? Polishing up impression management and memes

Robbie Lloyd

We have turned the Nagasaki 80th into a celebration of Israeli genocide

Eugene Doyle

Francesca Albanese’s bravery merits the Nobel prize

Daniel Falcone

Gender politics and right-wing politics clash in South Korea

Mandy Chan

To resist injustice in Gaza and the wider world

Charles Glass

What about the RAAF in the AUKUS equation

Robert Macklin

Australia urged to investigate Australians in Israeli forces for Gaza war crimes

Rateb Jneid

An Australian pathway to productivity, resilience and budget sustainability

Glenn Withers

Message from the Editor

Catriona Jackson

Israeli Knesset hosts conference on plan to 'Occupy Gaza' and 'Relocate Gazans'

Stephen Prager

Kazuo Ishiguro said he won the Nobel Prize for making people cry – 20 years later, Never Let Me Go should make us angry

Matthew Taft

Let’s (not) choose sides and fight

Richard Heinberg

Environment: Judge says advocate and protest to make government responsible for climate damage

Peter Sainsbury

Defining antisemitism and bringing the killing to an end

Frank Brennan

The disgrace of deliberate starvation: Israel's war of hunger in Gaza

Gideon Levy

From steam power to silicon: the unequal legacy of empire and innovation

Raghid Nahhas

Lies, damn lies and Zionist lobby pronouncements

Richard Llewellyn

The future of surveillance tech is already here – in the US, not China

Alex Lo

EVs and electric hot water can transform cities into “giant batteries” to slash peak demand

Sophie Vorrath

When technology enslaves humans

Julian Cribb

Former UN Aid chief calls Gaza genocide 'Worst crime of the 21st century'

Brett Wilkins

Which countries will pick sides in a US-China conflict over Taiwan?

Zhou Bo

Menadue on the dulling of the Australian conscience

John Menadue

Israel has succeeded in starvation, and the global moral edifice has collapsed sharply

Refaat Ibrahim

The new pricing scam: How surveillance pricing exploits us all

Sue Barrett

Defenders of rules-based order: not who you thought

Michael Walker

The Australia Group at 40

David Lee

As US warms up to Pakistan, India must refashion diplomacy

Ajay Darshan Behera

Economic reform must included industrial transformation - Part 2