expand_moreexpand_lessexpand_moreexpand_less
|
 |
 |
Pearls and Irritations |
Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s new defence pact could reshape West Asian security, while China and Indonesia plan naval drills east of...
Clean technologies are spreading rapidly, but the ability to design, manufacture and profit from them remains concentrated in a handful of countries....
New minimum standards will give food delivery workers an earnings floor, accident cover and clearer workplace protections. The changes also test years...
Former ambassador Yamagami Shingo is again shaping Australian political debate. His nationalist commentary, partisan interventions and revisionist...
Donald Trump may refuse to accept Republican losses in November, but America’s electoral institutions are likely to hold – and the midterms could...
David McBride has emerged from prison after paying an extraordinary personal price for exposing information about alleged war crimes. His case should...
Another 250,000 readers found P&I over the past year. As our August fundraising campaign begins, we’re asking readers to help keep independent...
A diamond-studded ring given to Donald Trump weeks before Belgian diamonds received tariff relief has prompted Democratic senators to question whether...
Children are spending days – and sometimes a week or more – in police custody designed only for short stays. New research points to isolation,...
Australia’s increasingly segregated school system is weakening both educational equality and social cohesion. Breaking the policy deadlock may...
ACT Attorney-General Tara Cheyne’s measured response to the controversy surrounding Mark Parton offers a rare example of judging private conduct by...
Christopher Luxon has survived another confidence vote, but the failed leadership challenge has exposed a government under strain, a deeply unpopular...
Four US human rights groups are challenging Trump administration sanctions they say criminalise cooperation with the International Criminal Court and...
Australians are experiencing extraordinary levels of psychological distress while mental health services remain underfunded and overstretched. The...
AI may live up to the technological hype while disappointing investors. Vast infrastructure spending is being financed on fixed schedules even as...
As Labor considers tougher migration measures amid pressure from One Nation and the Coalition, the legacy of Tampa still shapes how Australia treats...
A belief in merit, individual effort and opportunity means little if children begin life with radically unequal chances. Strong public education...
Washington says its restrictions on Chinese robots are about security. But shielding US manufacturers from their strongest competitors may leave...
Australians are changing jobs far less often than they did 50 years ago. Financial insecurity, debt and workplace barriers may be trapping workers in...
A new biography of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat offers a lens through which to consider two very different reigns of terror – and what their...
Jenny Wilkinson makes a strong case for evidence, pragmatism and intellectual rigour in the public service. But good advice also depends on ministers...
Nuclear arms control worked not because rivals trusted each other, but because compliance could be verified. AI governance now needs the same kind of...
A pro-Israeli YouTuber has registered a ‘Free Palestine’ party while opposing Palestinian liberation, exposing how little Australian electoral law...
New research links unilateral economic sanctions to more than half a million deaths each year, with children under five disproportionately affected....
Britain’s eccentric election candidates are easy to dismiss as comic relief. History suggests they can expose public discontent, influence results...
The rapid shift from petrol cars to electric vehicles is eroding fuel excise faster than governments expected. A replacement road user charge is...
A long-running subscription rip-off ended with refunds and a $10 million penalty. More importantly, it showed what government can achieve when it...
A collective show of support for NSW DPP Sally Dowling has raised questions about whether senior prosecutors used the authority of public office for a...
Trump may be willing to declare victory if Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz, but Tehran is using its leverage to demand sanctions relief,...
A decade after the UN demanded protection for medical care in war, attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients and humanitarian aid continue with...
NAPLAN results are too often treated as proof of teaching quality alone, while funding gaps, staffing shortages, disruption, disadvantage and student...
Australia’s democratic problem is not simply poor civics knowledge among citizens, but a political class too willing to avoid scrutiny, resist...
Glen Hansard’s life traced Ireland’s journey from poverty and emigration to global confidence, while never losing sight of those excluded from its...
Australia needs a migration policy based on workforce reality, not populist fear, racial resentment or a political race to match One Nation’s...
A decade after the UN demanded protection for medical care in war, attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients and humanitarian aid continue with...
Australia’s migration debate needs clear targets, credible delivery plans and honest discussion of the consequences – not caps that cannot work or...
Global military spending is soaring while the United Nations faces financial crisis, even as conflicts rise and the need for cooperative security...
Xiao Qian’s term as China’s ambassador saw the Australia-China relationship move from deep freeze to cautious stability, though many tensions...
New climate data and risk modelling suggest global heating is accelerating far faster than expected, with catastrophic consequences unless fossil fuel...
Gaza Sky Geeks shows another side of Palestinian life under catastrophe: skilled young people still creating, learning and building futures, if the...
A proposed UN tax convention could shift global rules from taxing profits where companies declare them to taxing profits where they are actually...
With H5N1 now killing Australian wild birds, targeted vaccination could help protect threatened species and prevent local extinctions before...
As Australia ages, the care workforce will depend on better training, stronger retention and skilled migration – not a narrow debate about...
When too many young Aboriginal men come to see prison as a normal stage of growing up, the question is not only what has gone wrong with them – but...
Omar Musa’s Fierceland has won the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award, recognising a formally adventurous novel that links family inheritance,...
Carbon offsets have rightly earned distrust, but the new Improved Native Forest Management method could protect native forests, store carbon and...
Fiona Katauskas’ departure from Guardian Australia points to a larger decline in permanent cartooning jobs, even as political cartoons remain vital...
When too many young Aboriginal men come to see prison as a normal stage of growing up, the question is not only what has gone wrong with them – but...
Oil and gas risks in the Arafura and Timor Seas are being underplayed, small bushland remnants deserve protection, and solar’s rapid growth still...
Much of our focus this week has been on what happens when democracy, or the leaders we elect, let us down. It is easy to forget when times are good...
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
