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Despite Labor’s longstanding appetite for constitutional reform, former Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus now points to a different path: bold, nation-...
The last federal election saw a sharp rise in harassment and aggression at polling places, according to submissions from around the country. From...
As One Nation rises by recycling anti-immigration rhetoric, both major parties are fumbling their response – missing the chance to offer a clear,...
Despite Western Australian Labor’s rhetoric on equality and Closing the Gap, incarcerated First Nations people remain politically invisible....
As Gaza reels from unimaginable physical and psychological harm, the global trauma healing community has remained largely silent. Breaking that...
Gaza’s economy, society and basic infrastructure have been almost entirely wiped out. With 90 per cent of people displaced, food systems destroyed...
Private schools regularly blame inflation for rising fees, yet funding arrangements mean they are largely compensated for cost increases. Their...
Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists and priced out of specialist care....
Australians can condemn repression in Iran and still focus on Gaza, where our government’s leverage is real and our moral responsibility is direct....
A beach swim, a shark warning and a familiar summer ritual open up bigger questions about safety, fear, and what it means to feel alive. This...
If the Albanese government wants to deliver lasting reform – in education, healthcare, housing and climate – it will have to confront the hardest...
The end of violence must be a first step in the Sudan Civil War. And Australia has a key role to play. A repost from 18 November 2025 The land of...
Graham Richardson was a very successful operator of the Labor Party from the late 1970s who was distinctly short on redeeming virtues. A repost...
Politicians who cannot accept climate change is humanity’s greatest threat should have no place in the Australian parliament. A repost from 19...
John Menadue stayed on as the most senior public servant in the land, after the trauma of the Dismissal. In this 5-part series he details what life...
The Trump economy is truly awful for most Americans. Democrats need to show America that they can be better trusted to bring prices down and real...
Japan and China both have legitimate security concerns. But an informed debate needs major media outlets to stop systematically erasing the...
Good policy should be evidence-based. But this is not the case with the Liberals energy policy and seems unlikely with their migration policy. The...
Hamed Al-Mansi is a physical education teacher and farmer from Gaza. He is now alone in Gaza and his dearest wish is to reunite with his family. He...
As heatwaves and bushfire risks intensify, emergency language has shifted too. The challenge is to warn clearly without losing trust. In early...
Shawn Levy’s Clint Eastwood biography captures the contradictions of a screen icon — and the craft behind a career still shaping popular cinema....
Attempts to silence writers rarely erase them. More often, they expose insecurity, deepen division, and turn targets into symbols of resistance....
If anyone had any lingering doubts about the change in the world order, the sight of President Trump pumping his fist into the air at the doorway...
Life in Beijing in 1975 was not easy and the events leading up to the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November piled on the pressure. A...
Those in the Coalition who are opposed to targeting net zero carbon emissions, argue that it will cost too much. But that claim is false and not...
The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to...
When a 34-year-old democratic socialist defeats a political dynasty in the nation’s largest city, we’re witnessing more than another electoral...
In succumbing to a lust for the limelight, the ASIO director, Mike Burgess, is not making it easier for the government and citizens to retain...
It beggars belief that the outgoing head of the RSL, Greg Melick, has abused the quiet solemnity of Remembrance Day to lecture and berate the...
Electricity prices are elevated, but anyone who claims renewable energy has driven the rise is either uninformed or is deliberately lying. A repost...
For two years, we’ve been told Australia is drowning in antisemitism. Every protest for Palestinian human rights, every mural, every chant...
As protests unfold in Iran, Israeli and US figures openly talk of regime collapse. Foreign interference risks worsening violence and derailing...
After Bondi, New South Wales politicians want to ban words and slogans. But rushed laws could punish political speech, not protect the public....
Quietly, but surely, life is ebbing away from the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad). A repost from 5 November 2025 From its post-2004...
The second part in a series of first-hand accounts of the Dismissal, from the man who was there: John Menadue. A repost from 5 November 2025...
_Anti-immigration rallies_ around Australia in late August and mid-October exposed public divides over migration, social cohesion and national...
When the Commonwealth Government reorganised its innovation responsibilities for the fourth time in a decade, public servants made jokes about...
In Australia, secretive and remote institutions armed with increasingly restrictive laws are seriously eroding civic freedoms. A repost from 7...
Not satisfied it seems with the continued genocide of Palestinians, Israel is now looking to execute Palestinian prisoners by introducing a death...
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