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Public life is loud, reactive and full of people mistaking noise for importance. But there is a difference between speaking when something must be...
Israel’s latest prison proposal has drawn attention in Israeli media, but its limited coverage in the Anglosphere points to a deeper failure to...
The US president can order a nuclear strike within minutes and without congressional approval, exposing the absurd danger of entrusting civilisation...
Research into frequent prescribed burning in a globally important hotspot in southwestern Western Australia reveals a negative impact on endangered...
FIFA claims political neutrality, but its treatment of Palestinian football shows an organisation willing to accommodate occupation, apartheid and...
After being found to have breached prisoners’ rights to one hour of fresh air a day, the Victorian Government is looking to remove that right in the...
New Pew Research Centre data shows China is now seen in a more positive light than the US in most of 37 countries surveyed and more people, overall,...
Bank Indonesia faces an increasingly difficult trade-off between stabilising the rupiah and supporting growth. Despite repeated interest rate hikes,...
Treating everyone the same doesn’t necessarily add up to fairness or national unity. What makes a difference is finding the best way to overcome...
The government wants AI data centres to minimise water use and maximise energy efficiency, but those rules will mean little without public,...
By refusing to name genocide in Gaza, the Labor government avoids the legal and moral obligations that would follow – but not the shame of...
The new national framework for AI is all about infrastructure. Where are the guardrails to protect citizens? On 15 July 2026, the Prime Minister stood...
With more than a third of the US fast-attack submarine fleet sidelined by maintenance delays, the assumptions behind AUKUS Pillar 1 are looking less...
One Nation’s rise is being driven by economically stranded Gen X voters in outer suburbs and regions, not the racial and culture-war constituency...
Eisenhower warned that US policy could be captured by a military-industrial and scientific-technological elite. Ukraine is now paying the price....
The rise of populism reflects unmet expectations about living standards, but the answer lies in restoring productivity growth rather than blaming...
Social media age bans won’t make children safer; requiring social-media platforms to prove the safety of their products will. As the European...
Pete Hegseth’s testosterone militarism and calls to escalate against Iran reveal the dangerous fantasies shaping US war thinking. Hegseth popped up...
Gaza has rearranged the world’s moral geography. Once-distant countries feel close because they have spoken when others are silent. At the World Cup...
Countries in Asia are hedging against China’s regional ambitions and against the uncertainty projected by the Trump administration. Australia is...
It’s difficult to believe how misguided, counter-productive and dangerous American foreign policy has become under Trump. It’s even harder to...
Australia has contributed to African peacekeeping missions for decades, but that record has rarely translated into sustained policy knowledge or...
Britain’s new prime minister must tackle regional inequality and build a national narrative explaining England’s place in the UK, Europe and the...
Bangladesh’s future depends not just on roads, bridges and buildings. It needs trees to be planted and nurtured to maturity to ensure the...
The World Cup created a rare global community, then FIFA and Trump tried to turn it into advertising inventory, spectacle and political theatre. At...
The ALP Conference this week will be carefully managed, but Labor’s deeper problem is a hollowed-out party increasingly driven by factions, polling...
The Israeli embassy has criticised Labor’s draft Israel-Gaza platform ahead of this week’s national conference, warning it places too much...
Despite years of China-threat rhetoric, Australia’s trade, infrastructure and consumer markets remain deeply shaped by practical engagement with...
In the second of a two-part series, Robin Brown and Nick Bogiatzis show how it is the politicians most loudly claiming to defend “Western values”...
Phu Nguyen’s immigration case should follow US legal process, but ICE’s treatment of an Australian citizen at Las Vegas airport demands separate...
US attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure have escalated the conflict, with Tehran accusing Washington of violating the Islamabad MOU and...
Europe is alarmed by Chinese overcapacity, deindustrialisation and US pressure, but remains divided over how to turn tough China rhetoric into policy....
Fred Hollows’ trachoma program exposed appalling Aboriginal health conditions and helped drive the growth of community-controlled health services....
Unsafe water already kills millions, while scarcity, PFAS, endocrine disruptors, industrial waste and AI’s thirst are turning clean water into a...
Evidence to the public inquiry into AUKUS is exposing risks around nuclear accidents, sovereignty, jobs, waste and Australia’s role as a US military...
The Labor party has drifted away from its principles when it comes to funding public education, one of the nation’s defining democratic...
Australia has immense natural, financial and scientific wealth, but has failed to turn enough of it into productive industries, skills and long-term...
Australia and New Zealand warn about China’s missile test while spending billions on military integration and lagging on the climate threat facing...
Before cutting private health insurance rebates, the government should hear older Australians who rely on cover as a safeguard against delay,...
Copyright law has long served owners and technology companies more effectively than creators. AI licensing now makes the case for stronger protection...
In the first of a two-part series, Robin Brown and Nick Bogiatzis argue that the moral values claimed as Western are common human values – and...
In the second of a two-part series, Peter Briggs examines the decommissioning, dismantling and waste-disposal risks Australia will inherit from AUKUS...
What an edition of a Siam Reap newspaper reveals about law and politics in Cambodia and constraints on freedom of speech. Fellow Pearls correspondent...
In remarks delivered to Chinese participants in the Cambridge Executive Leadership Program, Chas Freeman argues that 500 years of Euro-Atlantic...
Russia is feeling the cost of the war, but Putin’s authority rests on victory, force and fear. Lasting peace would require a political reckoning....
In the first of a two-part series, Peter Briggs examines the technical and security risks of relying on highly enriched uranium and an unproven...
Encouraging people to adopt low-carbon lifestyles is useful but no silver bullet for climate change. Plus, deep sea mining of thermal vents may look...
Nations’ new ways of working together, Xi’s nuclear deterrent display, scandal probe’s link to scandal probe, South China Sea’s geopolitical...
Van Morrison’s career traces a cultural movement from youthful openness and spiritual wonder towards bitterness, calculation and disenchantment....
Across this week’s pieces on P&I, the same question keeps appearing: who or what restrains power when the powerful decide restraint is optional?...
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