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Pearls and Irritations |
Chinese researchers have developed a new gravity-based detector that could be used to find submarines and render the proposed AUKUS submarine...
P&I today begins a major new series - rethinking Australia’s foreign policy. The United States is becoming more erratic and less reliable, and...
Public administrators in the United States are exploring how to reshape the civil service as a pillar of American democracy. Last year I reported in...
Australia and Malaysia have signalled support for a diplomatic path through escalating global tensions, backing Pope Leo’s call for peace and...
As warfare shifts decisively toward autonomous and distributed systems, Australia’s massive investment in nuclear submarines risks locking in a...
Women are increasingly dominant across education and the workforce, but leadership, workplace structures and social attitudes have failed to keep...
Australia’s school system has become a self-reinforcing cycle of inequality, and without structural reform, the divide between advantaged and...
The Chinese Government is often described as ruling with an iron fist, but the way rules and policy are interpreted on the ground can be quite...
The Greens need to get out of their own bubble and do some very serious soul searching if they are ever to have broad appeal, argues a co-founder of...
Patricia Edgar reflects on a lifetime shaped by feminism – and asks why, despite its gains, relationships between men and women now feel more...
A century after its creation, Winnie-the-Pooh endures not just as a children’s classic, but as a gentle meditation on friendship, community and how...
From devastating floods in the Northern Territory to the global failure to curb fossil fuels and the human cost of shipbreaking, environmental damage...
Cricket has adapted and survived for centuries, but a new struggle over control – combined with climate pressures – may test the game in ways it...
It has been a week where a number of world ‘leaders’ have exceeded even the lowest of expectations. Clearly the lion in this fight is Donald Trump...
The Middle East conflict reflects competing theocratic mindsets in Iran, Israel and the US, where religious conviction is being used to justify...
New research shows immigration is not driving voter anger, yet the Coalition is targeting it anyway – risking further losses in the diverse, urban...
Renewed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment have put the spotlight on how it works – and why it may be ill-suited to dealing with a president accused...
An ACT Legislative Assembly committee has strengthened proposed sentencing laws by listening to expert evidence and improving the legislation. We’re...
A sharp fall in confidence and rising fuel prices point to a potential downturn, but traditional policy responses risk making the situation worse....
New insider claims revive long-standing questions about whether US policy in Syria involved working with extremist groups – and what that means for...
Paul Keating says Angus Taylor’s embrace of “values” politics marks a return to racism, abandoning the Liberal Party’s traditions in favour of...
The High Court has struck down a Victorian law favouring major parties, but the bigger test lies ahead – whether federal electoral changes...
The Coalition’s asylum plan repackages familiar measures that have failed before, while sidestepping its role in creating a large and growing...
As global fossil fuel prices surge amid conflict, attacks on Australia’s energy transition are intensifying – driven by industry interests that...
By targeting Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump has exposed the limits of political power when confronted with a moral authority it cannot silence or absorb....
International law rulings on Israel’s occupation place clear obligations on all states, yet Australia continues to back US and Israeli military...
Italy has suspended military cooperation with Israel after months of mounting public anger. The Italian government has suspended a military...
Human waste is overwhelming rivers, oceans and ecosystems worldwide, driving pollution, disease and ecological breakdown on a planetary scale. Every...
Angus Taylor’s plan to tie citizenship to “Australian values” rely on vague definitions and risk embedding double standards, exclusion and...
President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have identified as the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: narcissism,...