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What a letter from Accra can teach Australia about prejudice and why our convictions must be accompanied by curiosity. I wrote to Ama after many...
In the second of a two-part series ahead of the ALP National Conference, John Menadue argues Labor must apply its values to the great issues before...
Every Australian family was once the newcomer; some arrived generations ago, others arrived last week. Yet, every generation seems to forget that fact...
As East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition, regional depth and...
A new El Niño will likely bring heatwaves, droughts and health problems to southern Australia. In the UK, it’s already too hot for a warm beer....
US regional strategy questions, donations-theft investigation, massive expansion of chip plants, Pakistan military’s changed political fortunes,...
Donald Trump once called cryptocurrency a scam. Now it has made him more than US$1 billion – and created a new channel for conflicts of interest,...
As the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, its founding ideals remain undermined by the two histories it has never...
Most governments remain hooked on oil instead of making the vital changes humans and the planet need for global energy transformation. The...
The World Cup is compromised, commercialised and often grotesque – but it can still show us something true about belonging, about multicultural...
In the first of a two-part series, John Menadue argues the upcoming ALP National Conference must do more than produce careful resolutions – it must...
Shelley’s portrayal of consciousness helps us to better understand why artificial intelligence cannot feel wonder or shame. Is an AI chatbot...
The trope that ending native forest logging in Australia would be ‘a very bad day for orangutans’ does not stack up. The Nationals Federal Member...
Footballers from the Global South are having to face questions about their countries’ politics – questions European and US players don’t get....
Overshooting the 1.5 degrees target for limiting global warming is not good news but there is progress on renewable energy and electrification. I...
Surging corporate spending in 2026 elections is a threat to democracy warns a US consumer advocacy organisation. On 30 June the US Supreme Court’s...
Right-wing podcasting in Australia is akin to a craft beer with a niche following. It is not a mass market. Karl Stefanovic and Nine parted ways last...
A road user charge should not be used to punish electric vehicle drivers, but to fairly price all motoring by distance, vehicle mass and pollution –...
There is a gap between research and the schoolroom. It can be bridged by creating a reciprocal relationship between knowledge and practice. An article...
The US non-profit sector is reeling from the double whammy of increased calls on its services and severe cuts in its federal funding. Since President...
The current housing crisis is yet to focus properly on those who do not qualify for social housing but cannot compete in the private market. There...
To fix the housing crisis, further reform is needed that shifts taxation away from earnings onto passive assets. Rates of homeownership have fallen...
The next UK Prime Minister should end Britain’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza and concentrate on the welfare of its citizens. When the UK Prime...
The idea of a monoculture is repressive. What Australia needs is the opposite – a revived cosmopolitan version of multiculturism. Pauline Hanson is...
An International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory report says the essence of childhood has been destroyed in Gaza. Most...
Australia’s parochial company boards are failing to equip themselves for Asia. This is a major barrier to developing our potential in the region and...
A new study using mineral dating of rocks in the Pilbara shows the Earth’s oldest crater is more than three billion years old. In the Pilbara of...
The Western media has failed to report on the Pakistan PM’s unequivocal statement that the US–Iran MOU did not mention ballistic missiles. The...
The Manchester model, which built skills and infrastructure, focused on the long game and it worked. These are lessons for the UK’s next PM....
The US-Iran memorandum of understanding has opened a path towards a permanent peace agreement, but spoilers inside and outside the process –...
Electric vehicles will not save the planet on their own but anti-EV rhetoric conveniently ignores the problems caused by petrol and diesel vehicles. A...
It is unclear why the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has chosen now to adopt the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism as a...
In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), Kim Carr warns that Australia cannot...
A new study using mineral dating of rocks in the Pilbara shows the Earth’s oldest crater is more than three billion years old. In the Pilbara of...
The Western media has failed to report on the Pakistan PM’s unequivocal statement that the US–Iran MOU did not mention ballistic missiles. The...
The Manchester model, which built skills and infrastructure, focused on the long game and it worked. These are lessons for the UK’s next PM....
The US-Iran memorandum of understanding has opened a path towards a permanent peace agreement, but spoilers inside and outside the process –...
It is unclear why the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has chosen now to adopt the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism as a...
In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), Kim Carr warns that Australia cannot...
Electric vehicles will not save the planet on their own but anti-EV rhetoric conveniently ignores the problems caused by petrol and diesel vehicles. A...
State governments are giving away billions in development rights that create huge private land windfalls, when pricing those rights could fund...
The launch of Community Strong Australia was a strategic move to position independents so they can offer a positive alternative to the two-party...
The pressing issues in Australian politics are not the lack of shared values but low productivity and greed. This is where reform efforts should be...
The long-term implications of the Iran war will be a shift in geopolitics, with the decline of Western dominance in West Asia and new regional...
A focus of Summer Davos was China’s plan to become a ‘standards maker’ that increasingly writes the rules in key technology fields. In a recent...
The Sanders, Corbyn, Ardern and Shorten moments were missed chances to renew social democracy through structural reform, leaving genuine economic...
It’s too late for Starmer, but Albanese has two years to take a bold stance against Hansonism and explain to the public his own plan. The fall of...
The US ‘deal’ with Iran is a humiliation. This outcome reveals not just Trump’s incompetence but flaws in the system that allowed him to rise to...
Attempts to reopen abortion access rights in Australia show how women’s rights are made negotiable through language, media framing and political...
The allure of AI creating boundless productivity may lead, perversely, to zero demand and the death of society because it is too dependent on a...
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