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Van BadhamThe Guardian |
The Australian government has proposed a ban on social media for all citizens under 16. Citing the success of recently introduced restrictions on...
“Your body, my choice” wrote the troll on a post about my mother dying. It was meant to intimidate me. Instead, it’s launched me into strategy...
It’s 25 years since Australia voted “no” in a referendum to become a republic – but to suggest the negative 1999 result symbolised an enduring...
I spend an uncommon amount of time in South Australia for a person who doesn’t actually live there; I’d never heard of South Australian Liberal MP...
The problem with talking about IVF is that anyone who knows anything about it has lived their experience with some degree of trauma. So reports...
It’s easy to be convinced that the myriad applications of AI pave a fun but nonetheless alarming digital path towards doom, doom, doom. Let’s...
Australia’s domestic, family and sexual violence commissioner, Micaela Cronin, said this week that the scourge of violence against women and...
The saga of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif at the Olympics. The explosive Times feature about the “tradwife” Hannah Neeleman. Whatever has...
Is flirting dying? Yes, claims a preternaturally cynical 24-year-old Los Angelean interviewed by NBC News in the US earlier this month. “If someone...
Word about town is that gossips are more trusted to help organise social events but less likely to be consulted for their ethics. By “word”, I...
Britain has been experiencing something of a heatwave this week, obliging me, as an Australian, to harangue its people on the subject of sun...
A teenage private schoolboy has been arrested for allegedly distributing “incredibly graphic” deepfake images of 50 girls from Bacchus Marsh...
Australia’s treasurer, Jim Chalmers, may be handing out the treats in this week’s budget, but the man is not Santa: he’s asked for something in...
In the wake of more, more, more reports of lethal male violence against women in Australia – and the protests demanding actions that have followed...
The harrowing local news stories of the last week have confronted Australians with the limitations and opportunities of our contemporary media...
News fresh from the Department of the Obvious this week: the Australian Financial Review reports that “class can have a bigger effect on your chance...
No, the kids are NOT alright. And as our future depends on them, we have to do something about it. This week the US surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy,...
What to say about Louise Milligan’s Four Corners investigation into yet more allegations of a boys’-club-toxic-culture scandal at yet another...
The gender pay gap is the demonstrable, statistical gap that exists between the amount of money men take home from work as opposed to what women take...
An intergenerational war is brewing. Yes, another one. It seems a plague of “Sephora Tweens” have been raiding available stocks of Drunk Elephant...
As a childless person, many feelings are aroused by Facebook’s annual floods of back-to-school photos but sadness is not one of them. I am not...
It’s Christmas Day for a columnist when a governing party reverses a decision for which you have previously given them a righteous bollocking. So HO...
News this week revealed that a full three-quarters of Australian high school students admit they aren’t “fully trying” in their Pisa tests. File...
The new year 2024 has begun with Queen Margrethe II of Denmark handing in a shock abdication. After 52 years of monarching, the sovereign of the...
How is it that Australia has become a country without a Christian majority and yet we voluntarily outstrip ourselves year on year with the scale of...