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In a speech to a colloquium on John Hay’s Open Door Policy, former US diplomat Chas Freeman argues that America’s current approach to China is...
Australia’s correctional system remains heavily focused on incarceration and punishment while failing to build a coordinated national framework to...
Australia’s housing crisis reflects not just a shortage of homes but the structural limits of a system that relies overwhelmingly on private...
Proposals to slash Australia’s tobacco excise ignore the basic economics of the illegal cigarette market, where untaxed products would remain...
The government’s main policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gases only covers a small proportion of emissions and allows companies to offset...
Advocates of liberal democracy everywhere are celebrating Péter Magyar’s triumph over Viktor Orbán. But among the lessons to draw from the...
As Washington and Beijing reshape the Indo-Pacific order through direct negotiation, Australia risks remaining strategically reactive instead of...
Angus Taylor’s budget reply speech may appeal to One Nation supporters, but it doesn’t provide credible answers to the nation’s problems. For as...
India has shifted from decades of economic protectionism to an outward-looking strategy built on trade, investment and global integration,...
The 2026 Budget marks a rare moment where Labor showed some willingness to confront inequality and tax reform, but the government still shrank from...
The Nakba is not simply an historical event but an ongoing system of displacement, erasure and resistance that continues to shape Palestinian identity...
Food banks across the United States are reporting surging demand as cuts to food assistance, rising prices and inflation leave millions of vulnerable...
The World Health Organization has declared the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a global health emergency...
From climate change and extinction to groundwater depletion and chemical pollution, human activity is now transforming the Earth on a geological scale...
The war between the US and Iran is increasingly being driven by the self-reinforcing dynamics of escalation, retaliation and mistrust that make...
Many proposals to create so-called ‘healthy forests’ through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already...
Polling suggests support for impeaching Donald Trump has returned to levels seen during Watergate and Trump’s first presidency, even as the US...
In a personal submission to the Antisemitism Royal Commission, P&I founder John Menadue argues that it is impossible to separate increasing rates...
Western powers have repeatedly backed or empowered religious extremists when it suited strategic interests, while undermining secular nationalist...
The Israeli assault on the Gaza-bound Global Sumud flotilla has sparked accusations that New Zealand’s government abandoned its own citizens and...
The government’s long-awaited response to the Murphy inquiry into online wagering falls short of the reforms needed to reduce gambling harm,...
Siri Hustvedt’s memoir ‘Ghost Stories’ chronicles the illness and death of her husband Paul Auster while exploring grief, memory, selfhood and...
Renewable electricity is taking over. But this does not mean the end of global warming. We may need a shock to take the climate problem seriously and...
After US courts found Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately addicting young users, attention is increasingly being recognised not as a private...
Donald Trump is not an aberration but the culmination of decades of political decay, elite corruption, corporate power and democratic collapse within...
Indonesia’s response to the Bondi shootings and the royal commission hearings exposed a deeper unease – one where fear, politics and prejudice...
Two seemingly unconnected things happened this week, one at the Cannes film festival on the French Riviera, the other in the US District Court in...
Drawing on a submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion from the Group of Six, Vasiliki Nihas Bogiatzis argues Australia...
The Coalition’s plan to strip permanent residents of access to welfare payments risks detonating support across Australia’s outer-suburban migrant...
Contemporary despots are masters of the arts of seductive power, parasites upon the corrupted ideals and failures of power-sharing democracy. This is...
A big chunk of the growing interest payments American taxpayers make on the federal debt is going to wealthy Americans. The US national debt just...
Research from Brazil suggests informal settlements persist not because people want to live in them, but because cities continue to fail on affordable...
A US federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump administration sanctions against UN Palestine expert Francesca Albanese, ruling the measures likely...
Conflict monitors and health officials say Israeli attacks on Gaza increased sharply after the US-Israel bombing campaign against Iran slowed, despite...
This week’s budget begins winding back tax concessions that heavily favoured property investors and wealth accumulation, while pairing those changes...
Donald Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping is expected to focus heavily on military communications, Taiwan, nuclear tensions and crisis management as...
Australian officials have been briefed by Britain’s Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee about ‘D-Notices’. These are...
In a federal budget that sought to restore intergenerational equity, particularly through reforms to tax concessions that have long favoured...
As healthcare, education and housing costs rise sharply across Indonesia, public frustration is increasingly colliding with political rhetoric that...
Donald Trump’s visit to China comes as the country’s new Five-Year Plan places technological self-reliance and frontier scientific innovation at...
The government’s Budget reforms on negative gearing and capital gains tax will not solve the housing crisis overnight, but they represent the most...
The obsession with whether governments have broken campaign promises is shrinking political ambition and discouraging the kind of leadership needed to...
Fundraising sleepouts may raise awareness, but homelessness is fundamentally a systems failure driven by housing shortages, inadequate support...
This is a responsible budget that responds sensibly to inflation and weak productivity, but it stops short of the deeper tax and climate reforms...
The federal budget increases investment in emissions reduction, batteries and clean energy infrastructure, but leaves major fossil fuel tax...
The US and Israel expected a rapid collapse of the Iranian regime, but the war has instead exposed the limits of American power, the rising cost of...
Donald Trump’s visit to China comes amid mounting tensions over trade, AI, security and the Middle East, but both Washington and Beijing appear...
The federal budget takes long-avoided steps to curb housing tax concessions, rein in spending growth and reduce intergenerational unfairness –...
The Farrer by-election revealed a deep political realignment, with One Nation consolidating support in regional Australia while multicultural and...
In an edited version of a speech delivered at the Restoring Democracy launch in Melbourne, Gillian Triggs says that weakening respect for...
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