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As trust in the US collapses, leaders in Australia and around the world are frantically recalibrating

As trust in the US collapses, leaders in Australia and around the world are frantically recalibrating
23.03.2025 90

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Julianne Schultz

Chris Riddell on Europe gasping at its €800m rearmanent bill as it accepts that Trump can’t be trusted – cartoon

08.03.2025 10

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The Observer view: Europe must now come of age as a global player

08.03.2025 10

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Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich

08.03.2025 40

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The Observer view: when an asteroid is hurtling to Earth, do you head for the pub or the church?

23.02.2025 10

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Australians mostly have little to worry about. So why do we succumb to fear?

23.02.2025 10

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While Trump is moving fast and breaking things, Americans wanting to escape should come to Australia

08.02.2025 7

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Taking tips from John Howard, Peter Dutton knows the barbecue stopper is key to shaping the national conversation

When Peter Dutton lumbered on to the national political stage in 2001 with his stiff policeman’s gait and hectoring manner, few saw him as prime...

14.12.2024 6

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The Observer view: Ignore the stigma and tackle the toxic cycle of child sexual abuse

‘I wanted them all to notice.” This is the title of a new report on protecting children from sexual abuse within the family, taken from an...

30.11.2024 6

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Australia and much of the world is on the cusp of profound change. What happens next is up to us

Sixty years ago this week Donald Horne published a little book with a snappy title that captured the zeitgeist. Seizing the invisible force that...

30.11.2024 5

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The US has long been Australia’s north star, but now the friendship needs a careful recalibration

For good and ill, the US has long been Australia’s tarnished, contested and imperfect north star. We have copied, modified and sometimes rejected...

09.11.2024 10

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For years Queensland was the weird outlier – but could the weekend’s election show what’s to come nationally?

Queensland occupies a unique place in Australian public life: not quite a bellwether, but still a surprisingly frequent source of unlikely ideas...

27.10.2024 2

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What can the voice’s failure and the past teach us about how Australia can be a nation that embraces progress?

By rights, the referendum to grant the nation’s First Peoples meaningful recognition should have been embraced by the Australian people. Instead,...

12.10.2024 2

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Queensland truth telling won’t mean anything if it falls on deaf ears

In an event unimaginable even a decade ago, seven of the most powerful people in Queensland, heads of government departments, sat side by side on...

28.09.2024 2

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Australia’s decades of harmful policy will be repaid in intergenerational trauma, and inquiries can only do so much

How many more inquiries into the decades-long consequences of bad policy must we live through? How many more times must the traumatic legacy of...

15.09.2024 6

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Politics is part of the problem – but it can also help pave a pathway out of loneliness and isolation

Loneliness has suddenly become a political thing. Well maybe not suddenly, but rather surprisingly, as it is one of the last taboos. Earlier this...

25.08.2024 3

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For Australian identity to evolve, we must be able to see what has come before

Would America – and the world – be a different place if Bill Clinton’s 1992 election mantra had changed one word and declared, “It’s the history,...

10.08.2024 1

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Most media barons hide their ambitions behind the language of journalistic impartiality. Not the Murdochs

Dynasties are rare in Australia. Those that want to change their homeland, generation after generation, are rare everywhere. Most democracies aim...

27.07.2024 1

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