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After the genocide in Gaza

So what happens next, sports fans, fellow Australian citizens? Now that Israel is starting to run out of Palestinian children and women to kill,...

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Peter Blunt

You aren't laughing now, are you?

The British media has always been populated by larger than life figures – from Northcliffe to Maxwell, Beaverbrook to Harmsworth, Barclay to...

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Noel Turnbull

Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment has been a long time coming

The Australian Government’s soon-to-be-released first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA), which will be focused on domestic climate risks, has...

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David Spratt

First they came for the Palestinians

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Guest Author

China’s shift to quality is redrawing Southeast Asia’s tech map

On 1 August, China’s state planner announced a crackdown on “herd behaviour” in emerging industries, targeting the surge of capital into hot...

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Asma Khalid

Bendigo writers' festival fiasco

If it weren’t so serious, it would be laughable. A code of conduct for a writers’ festival? Yet that was the requirement asked of authors if they...

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Warwick Mcfadyen

Finance’s bleeding hearts think PwC has suffered enough

Has the Department of Finance entirely lost the plot? Has its thinking about the PriceWaterhouseCooper scandal — that the matter can now be swept...

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Jack Waterford

The economic reform roundtable and taxation

Taxation is on the agenda of the Economic Reform Roundtable and, despite Albanese’s reluctance to consider tax changes, it will be impossible to...

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Michael Keating

The response to recognition

The recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia, leading, it is hoped, to full UN member state status, is an important development. What has...

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Paul Heywood-Smith

Saving Marwan Barghouti is our duty

Seeing video evidence this week of the physical and psychological mistreatment of the great Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti sickened me. I have...

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Eugene Doyle

A focus on consumption is the wrong way to go

In many countries around the world, from China to the US to Australia, there is concern that people are not spending enough of their money. They...

yesterday 5

Caroline Fitzwarryne

Trump’s attacks are driving what BRICS was meant to do: encourage co-operation among non-Western powers and reduce dependence on the US

At first glance, US President Donald Trump’s renewed “America first” agenda seems aimed at the heart of the BRICS bloc of developing nations. With...

yesterday 6

Hao Nan

Labour market data: Complex, imperfect and politically convenient

Labour market data is politically potent, technically complex and often imperfect. Recent US events are a reminder that Australia’s own systems...

yesterday 7

David O&39Halloran

1975: The Whitlam dismissal’s smoking gun

The dismissal of the Whitlam Government by Governor-General John Kerr on 11/11/1975 still rankles at the heart of Australian democracy. Overtly,...

yesterday 7

Stephen Stockwell

Trump denies women in need access to contraception

For several decades, there were major gains globally in access to family planning and reproductive health services. The US Government contributed...

yesterday 7

Jenny Goldie

Boots on the ground: Why Australia must support a UN peacekeeper mission to Gaza

Living through a genocide is deeply traumatic. My beloved sister Alaa and her family have been killed by the IDF, as have my cousins Mahmoud,...

yesterday 7

Ayman Qwaider

The US has changed. Australia hasn’t. It’s time to talk about where the relationship goes from here

Seven months after Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term as US president, we are facing the most important moment in Australia’s foreign...

yesterday 6

Bruce Wolpe

Has Labor abandoned major tax reform?

No policy area in Australia is in greater need of major reform than taxation. The current tax system is failing Australians on many fronts. It’s...

yesterday 5

Ross Stitt

Message from the editor

Last Monday night I was part of a panel discussion on the future of Palestine with a fascinating group. They were: Mussa Hijazi, a Palestinian...

yesterday 6

Catriona Jackson

The Ukraine war after the Alaska summit

The Trump-Putin encounter in Anchorage has angered some, disappointed others and baffled many more. Yet it has told us much about the state of the...

yesterday 6

Joseph Camilleri

Restaurant reviews benefit restaurants

The question burns: What are Nine Publishing’s restaurant reviews in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald trying to do? What is their purpose? When...

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Stephen Downes

Fifty-five years on, Bertrand Russell's words are worth returning to

Believed to be one of the last things renowned philosopher, pacifist and public intellectual Bertrand Russell wrote, it is as relevant today as it...

previous day 2

Bertrand Russell

Environment: 18th century vicar describes controlled burning in English countryside

English farmers used controlled burns of gorse 300 years ago. Too hot and dry even for cacti. Urbanisation induces genetic evolution in birds....

previous day 4

Peter Sainsbury

Our bravest journalists today are all working and dying in Gaza

Palestinian reporters are being murdered before their own cameras to expose true horrors to an indifferent or even pro-genocidal world. Let this...

previous day 1

Alex Lo

More fundamental changes to the means test are needed than those intimated by DSS

Based on the redacted version released recently under Freedom of Information( FOI), DSS’s incoming government brief seems overall to be a valuable...

previous day 8

Andrew Podger

Recognition of Palestine: A neocolonial, feel-good gesture

Recognition of Palestine is a “feel-good” gesture that will not achieve any tangible benefits for the Palestinian people and amounts to a...

saturday 10

Jeff Kildea

What is the Yokohama Commonwealth War Cemetery and what was Australia's response to it?

Anniversary events commemorating the end of the Asia Pacific War continue to focus on populist themes of victory, defeat, military prowess, 80...

saturday 6

Anoma Pieris

Where is the outrage? Israel's systematic mass assassination of journalists

The killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif is shocking but that it is a culmination of planned mass assassination of journalists by the...

saturday 7

Jeremy Webb

Prefab housing evolution: Higher quality, greater affordability, broader acceptance

A new kind of residential landscape is taking shape, not with the chaotic clang of construction, but with the rhythm and precision of a symphony –...

saturday 3

Zijian Qi

Fight no longer just in the trenches, it’s in the narrative

Since Cambodia and Thailand signed the ceasefire agreement in Kuala Lumpur on 28 July, Thailand has moved on us in six ways. They shaped last...

saturday 10

Chheng Kimlong

Europe: From great market to satellite continent

The tariff deal between the EU and US signals a major setback for Europe’s autonomy. Lack of political power in Brussels and the absence of...

saturday 10

Adriano Tedde

A better and fairer school system? Just look to Canada

Ontario implemented needs-based funding a quarter of a century ago, and the benefits go beyond student achievement. For Australians, needs-based...

saturday 1

Tom Greenwell

Why Trump lashes India but holds back on China – Asian Media Report

In Asian media this week: US hopes Beijing might lean on Putin. Plus: Work starts on Xi-Trump summit in China; Former first lady jailed on...

saturday 10

David Armstrong

'Blatantly lying': Crime is falling in every single city Trump threatened with federal police takeover

Many Americans are persuaded by persistent claims that crime is rising, even when they are not. Critics say the media’s rampant coverage of violent...

saturday 1

Stephen Prager

Economic reform and the productivity slowdown

The productivity slowdown is mostly due to slower technological progress. The economic reform agenda should focus on measures to improve...

saturday 9

Michael Keating

Recognition of Palestine only a start

Prime Minister Albanese’s announcement on 11 August that Australia will recognise the state of Palestine is a dramatic break with the past....

15.08.2025 1

Peter Rodgers

An open letter to the Jewish Board of Deputies

I am part of a small group of people who intended to hold an event to discuss the situation in Gaza. Shortly before our event was scheduled, the...

15.08.2025 2

Louise Katz

As deadline looms, advocates call plastics treaty draft 'nothing short of a betrayal'

“The process has been completely captured by swarms of fossil fuel lobbyists and shamefully weaponised by low-ambition countries,” said the chief...

15.08.2025 2

Brad Reed

Labor vulnerable nowhere in particular, everywhere in general

The best attempt at a post-election pendulum was published recently by Dr Kevin Bonham, who also did a terrific job explaining developments during...

15.08.2025 3

Bob Mcmullan

Clinton to Trump: How Putin has met, courted and frustrated US presidents

Vladimir Putin has met five US presidents over 25 years. But jazz and fishing have given way to threats and tension. The Alaska summit will be the...

15.08.2025 3

Al Jazeera Staff

Albanese’s recognition of a Palestinian state implements a long-held Labor ambition

Those who accuse the Albanese Government of breaking with a historic Labor position of opposing recognition of a Palestinian state are wrong. Labor...

15.08.2025 1

Craig Emerson

Israeli officials reportedly held talks about displacing Palestinians to war-torn South Sudan

“If implemented, the plans would amount to transferring people from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another,” the Associated Press said....

15.08.2025 3

Stephen Prager

Breaking: Chilling ‘News Virus’ sweeps Australia

Chikungunya is a virus first identified in 1952 in what is now Tanzania, carried by mosquitoes, long since a globetrotter. It’s been through India,...

15.08.2025 1

Fred Zhang

White House to vet Smithsonian exhibits to ensure they 'align with Trump's interpretation' of US history

Smithsonian exhibits should be “accurate, patriotic, and enlightening – ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder and national pride for...

15.08.2025 2

Brad Reed

On the siege of Gaza

All the dire predictions at the time Israel banned the UN Relief and Works Agency in January 2025 have come to pass. Of its Israeli/American...

15.08.2025 10

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After the genocide in Gaza

Peter Blunt

You aren't laughing now, are you?

Noel Turnbull

Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment has been a long time coming

David Spratt

First they came for the Palestinians

Guest Author

China’s shift to quality is redrawing Southeast Asia’s tech map

Asma Khalid

Bendigo writers' festival fiasco

Warwick Mcfadyen

Finance’s bleeding hearts think PwC has suffered enough

Jack Waterford

The economic reform roundtable and taxation

Michael Keating

The response to recognition

Paul Heywood-Smith

Saving Marwan Barghouti is our duty

Eugene Doyle

A focus on consumption is the wrong way to go

Caroline Fitzwarryne

Trump’s attacks are driving what BRICS was meant to do: encourage co-operation among non-Western powers and reduce dependence on the US

Hao Nan

Labour market data: Complex, imperfect and politically convenient

David O&39Halloran

1975: The Whitlam dismissal’s smoking gun

Stephen Stockwell

Trump denies women in need access to contraception

Jenny Goldie

Boots on the ground: Why Australia must support a UN peacekeeper mission to Gaza

Ayman Qwaider

The US has changed. Australia hasn’t. It’s time to talk about where the relationship goes from here

Bruce Wolpe

Has Labor abandoned major tax reform?

Ross Stitt

Message from the editor

Catriona Jackson

The Ukraine war after the Alaska summit

Joseph Camilleri

Restaurant reviews benefit restaurants

Stephen Downes

Fifty-five years on, Bertrand Russell's words are worth returning to

Bertrand Russell

Environment: 18th century vicar describes controlled burning in English countryside

Peter Sainsbury

Our bravest journalists today are all working and dying in Gaza

Alex Lo

More fundamental changes to the means test are needed than those intimated by DSS

Andrew Podger

Recognition of Palestine: A neocolonial, feel-good gesture

Jeff Kildea

What is the Yokohama Commonwealth War Cemetery and what was Australia's response to it?

Anoma Pieris

Where is the outrage? Israel's systematic mass assassination of journalists

Jeremy Webb

Prefab housing evolution: Higher quality, greater affordability, broader acceptance

Zijian Qi

Fight no longer just in the trenches, it’s in the narrative

Chheng Kimlong

Europe: From great market to satellite continent

Adriano Tedde

A better and fairer school system? Just look to Canada

Tom Greenwell

Why Trump lashes India but holds back on China – Asian Media Report

David Armstrong

'Blatantly lying': Crime is falling in every single city Trump threatened with federal police takeover

Stephen Prager

Economic reform and the productivity slowdown

Michael Keating

Recognition of Palestine only a start

Peter Rodgers

An open letter to the Jewish Board of Deputies

Louise Katz

As deadline looms, advocates call plastics treaty draft 'nothing short of a betrayal'

Brad Reed

Labor vulnerable nowhere in particular, everywhere in general