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Citizens rightly expect a lot from their government - now more than ever. Even as the shadow of COVID-19 recedes, the challenges of rising costs of...
No single weapons system - whether tanks for Ukraine or submarines for Australia - can, by itself, produce victory. They are panaceas that distract...
The Office for Women in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is currently in overdrive, trying to roll out the Albanese government's...
The scathing Productivity Commission report into School Reforms shows that much more needs to be done for students experiencing disadvantage - who...
I still remember how I felt the first time I watched Embrace. The 2016 documentary from this year's Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt left...
Murdered by a colossal evil seeded in casual racism and advanced in increments through flag-waving nationalism to the most toxic of hatreds. Friday...
Will the last Japanese person please turn off the lights? Last year Japan's total population fell by 538,000, bringing the population down to an...
Tennis fanatics and besotted followers of the Australian Open, lend me your minds as I ask you this probing, investigative, character-testing...
For a project supposedly based in a call for goodwill and respect, the Voice debate is rife with distrust and assumptions of bad faith. For example,...
Put down the beach towels. It's time to rummage around the back of the cupboard and dig out the backpacks, the lunch boxes and water bottles. It's...
The current public debate about the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, associated with continuing arguments about Australia Day, has...
In a disturbing coincidence I have just been admiring the most spectacular heads of hair sported by players at the Australian Open while, at...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did the right thing in dashing off to Alice Springs this week in response to the publicity about that city's crime...
This is what Xi Jinping's aggression has done for China. He's provoked a US attack on his country's artificial intelligence efforts such as we...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au He rode his bicycle to that...
Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from Australian Community Media, which has journalists in every state and territory. Today's is...
I have two terrible confessions to make. I once loved Australia Day. And I don't want to vote on the Voice. Let me start with the easy one first....
International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the notorious Nazi death camp in Poland. But, for survivors and...
This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna.com.au By now, you probably know...
Australians have only ever known a system where Indigenous peoples are treated as problems to be solved, not as partners and active participants in...
With money comes power, as the old saying goes. And there's one organisation that spends more money each year than anyone else in Australia: the...