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In the fourth of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, the focus turns to workforce: Australia must build and sustain two geographically...
Films about nuclear war have often been dismissed by officials as inaccurate, alarmist or merely fictional, but their real power lies in forcing...
US military support for Israel is facing its deepest political and legal crisis in decades, as Gaza exposes the gap between Washington’s stated...
The 2026 Census is expected to mark more than a demographic milestone, with new Islamic denomination categories offering a fuller picture of Muslim...
India’s Gen Z social mobility crisis, Tokyo’s new foreign intelligence agency, Chinese chip company’s blockbuster IPO, regional nations’...
On re-election in May 2025, Anthony Albanese pledged to run a “disciplined and orderly” government – hardly ‘the light on the hill’, but it...
Victorian Labor’s crisis is not just about leadership, but a decade of governing as though its western and north-western heartland would remain...
On re-election in May 2025, Anthony Albanese pledged to run a “disciplined and orderly” government – hardly ‘the light on the hill’, but it...
The 2026 Census is expected to mark more than a demographic milestone, with new Islamic denomination categories offering a fuller picture of Muslim...
India’s Gen Z social mobility crisis, Tokyo’s new foreign intelligence agency, Chinese chip company’s blockbuster IPO, regional nations’...
Films about nuclear war have often been dismissed by officials as inaccurate, alarmist or merely fictional, but their real power lies in forcing...
In the fourth of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, the focus turns to workforce: Australia must build and sustain two geographically...
US military support for Israel is facing its deepest political and legal crisis in decades, as Gaza exposes the gap between Washington’s stated...
Victorian Labor’s crisis is not just about leadership, but a decade of governing as though its western and north-western heartland would remain...
Long-term Labor governments need discipline, but unity becomes brittle when caucus is reduced to managed unanimity and MPs cannot test decisions...
The US is worried about dependence on Chinese critical minerals, but its rushed deadline ignores the years of investment, infrastructure and allied...
In the third of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, Osborne’s submarine yard is making visible progress, but unfunded stages, nuclear...
The danger of nuclear war does not begin and end with Donald Trump, but with a failing system of nation states, militarised power and corporate...
South Africa’s transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy suggests that a single secular, non-racist state may offer a more hopeful future...
Australia knows many of the pathways into homelessness, yet funding, eligibility and accountability too often begin only after vulnerability has...
Uncertainty over coal plant closure dates is weakening investor confidence in renewable energy, creating a circular problem where coal stays open...
In the second of a six-part series on AUKUS infrastructure, the focus shifts to Henderson, where fragmented land tenure, commercial disruption and...
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian ‘guards...
Weak growth, falling real wages and poor productivity are linked, and one way to force business to invest and improve efficiency may be to lift wages...
NAPLAN can reveal broad patterns in literacy and numeracy, but it cannot diagnose individual student needs and too often turns disadvantage into...
Almost half of skilled migrants are working below their qualification level, while Australia’s complex recognition system leaves urgently needed...
Queensland’s high-value seatbelt camera fines are being challenged over evidence quality, driver responsibility and fairness, raising questions...
The ALP National Conference should have tested the government’s reform record and commitment to international law, but factional control turned it...
Renewable energy, data centres and energy-intensive industries could shift economic growth towards regional Australia, where power can be generated...
Australia’s most influential STEM research increasingly depends on collaboration with China, yet excessive security settings risk pushing...
The first in a six-part series examines the maintenance reality behind AUKUS Pillar 1, and the looming risk that Australia may receive Virginia-class...
In the aftermath of the deadly Berlin Pride attack, grief is being pulled between silence, scapegoating and political recruitment – when what...
One Nation’s rise may not stop Labor winning the House of Representatives, but it could reshape Senate preferences and leave a future Labor...
One Nation’s proposed visa cap and threat to deport students would devastate international education, put tens of thousands of jobs at risk and...
Garry Woodard was a distinguished Australian diplomat, historian and strategic analyst whose service, scholarship and independent judgment helped...
A people’s tribunal has found that Australian universities restricted free speech and academic freedom on Palestine, even as vice chancellors...
The World Cup presentation with Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino revealed how FIFA converts football’s collective wealth into patronage, reducing...
A satirical youth movement built on memes and a cockroach mascot has done what no opposition party managed in a decade: it has cracked Narendra...
Australia and China can rebuild trust through practical confidence-building measures and cooperative projects, especially in the Pacific, where shared...
The racial hierarchy of the Australian government’s response to its envoys’ recommendations leaves Muslims unprotected by the law. Ten months...
Anthony Albanese acknowledged structural problems in the economy at its National Conference, but Labor still treats capitalism as a system to be...
Labor’s cautious path to a third term may be electorally defensible, but avoiding a fundamental argument with Pauline Hanson leaves both Hansonism...
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