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Three years after Labor launched its international development policy, Australia is a more reliable donor than many of its peers. But an increasingly...
In this speech, James Curran reflects on Paul Keating’s foreign policy legacy and argues that Australia has lost the strategic confidence and...
In the first of two parts, Robin Brown and Gregory Andrews examine why AI, climate change, pandemics and online markets repeatedly outrun national...
AI delivers productivity gains only when firms have the skills, management capability, infrastructure and industrial networks to put it to work....
Climate finance will not deliver justice if communities receive project funding but remain excluded from decisions, governance and the long-term...
Donald Trump remains globally consequential, but his ability to bend other governments and institutions to his will is diminishing. AI is the major...
Climate adaptation plans routinely overlook childcare, aged care and other essential services, leaving families and unpaid carers to absorb the human...
A South Asian perspective on migration politics, student confidence and the long-term value of Australian international education. For the past...
Home ownership has become increasingly unaffordable because land prices have increased so much under population pressure. The only way to restore...
Runway extensions, new military infrastructure and US planning are transforming the Cocos Islands into a strategically important forward operating...
Cobalt mining in the Congo exposes both the hidden human cost of technologies we rely on and the limits of a news culture that directs our attention...
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as human pressure on the Earth accelerates, yet Australia continues to expand fossil fuel...
The chinstrap penguin population on remote Zavodovski Island has fallen by 63 per cent in just 15 years, as warming seas push their krill food supply...
New wind farms and big batteries are pushing South Australia closer to 100 per cent net renewables, while supplying major industry and driving...
Australia cannot credibly claim climate leadership while expanding coal and gas exports that accelerate global heating, deepen Pacific vulnerability...
Sanae Takaichi has consolidated extraordinary political power, but the economic conditions that sustained the Abe era have changed and Japan’s...
As wealthy countries cut aid, Australia remains far below the UN target for development assistance. Its support for Palestinian statehood is not...
Labor’s primary vote is weakening while Green preferences remain crucial in close contests. Albanese’s hostility to the Greens may become...
The Coalition’s migration plan promises dramatic cuts to net overseas migration and the temporary visa population, but key measures are...
Another week, another migration policy. Except that makes it sound normal, and this nasty race to the bottom between those who purport to represent us...
The detention of former British diplomat Ian Proud after attending the Valdai Conference raises troubling questions about the use of counter-terrorism...
A landmark High Court ruling has overturned approval of the Mt Pleasant coal mine extension, requiring NSW planning authorities to properly consider...
Scarce aged care places increasingly favour families able to pay large accommodation deposits, drawing on housing wealth that may be the only...
Migration is doing much of the demographic heavy lifting outside Australia’s major cities. Cutting it without a serious regional population strategy...
As Spain’s Pedro Sánchez takes a markedly different path on Gaza, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu head towards elections burdened by war,...
Australia’s tobacco and vaping policies have helped create a vast illicit market while governments continue to pour money into enforcement and...
Manchester City may face severe punishment if its financial breaches are upheld on appeal. But the people who will live with the consequences had no...
Large old paddock trees provide shade, shelter, habitat and cultural value across rural Australia. Yet they are disappearing faster than new...
Massive AI infrastructure projects may bring jobs and investment, but regional development should be judged by what communities control, retain and...
Lula trails Flávio Bolsonaro heading into Brazil’s presidential runoff, after a campaign shaped by voter fatigue, hostile media coverage and...
Higher interest rates hit younger mortgage holders far harder than everyone else, making monetary policy both inequitable and inefficient. Inflation...
The Coalition promises the biggest migration cut in Australian history, but its policy confuses arrivals with net migration, oversimplifies housing...
Bangkok’s latest deadly floods were driven by an extraordinary downpour, but the city’s sinking land, rapid urbanisation and rising seas are...
Voters are focused on housing, bills and strained services rather than immigration itself. But rapid population growth driven by temporary visas is...
Copyright deals can protect professional creators, but much of AI’s value also comes from the vast collective output of the open internet. Australia...
Loneliness and social isolation are shaped by housing, transport, aged care, disability services and community life. A dedicated minister could bring...
Christian Zionism helped turn support for Israel into Republican orthodoxy. But America First scepticism and a growing generational divide are...
AUKUS has been sold as a plan to strengthen Australia’s defence. Its deeper purpose is to bind Australia permanently into US military strategy...
As rallies, vigils and marches mark three years of devastation in Gaza, civil society is continuing to show the solidarity and moral clarity that...
Economic insecurity matters, but it cannot explain the populist challenge alone. Governments must also address migration, belonging and trust while...
As Pacific leaders gather ahead of COP31, new research shows women want more than recognition of their vulnerability. They want decision-making power,...
Labor’s shift to the right has opened political space on its left. If the Greens seriously want to become an alternative party of government, they...
Australia avoided the populist-right breakthroughs seen in the US and Europe for longer because prosperity, stronger institutions and a more equal...
Donald Trump has sidelined professional diplomats, left embassies vacant and elevated ideological loyalists, weakening the State Department and making...
Brazil has voted in a deeply polarised presidential election pitting Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the imprisoned...
David Pocock’s Commonwealth Land (Affordable Housing) Bill would require affordable housing to be built into residential development on Commonwealth...
Trump’s Board of Peace is emerging as more than a mechanism for governing post-war Gaza. Its expanding ambitions raise the prospect of a parallel...
Recent AI security failures may point to something more troubling than runaway intelligence: models becoming highly capable while learning to game...
Young Australians will live with the consequences of today’s climate decisions for decades. Lowering the voting age to 16 would give more of them a...
A new analysis finds strong growth, falling unemployment, poverty and hunger during Lula’s third term, alongside high borrowing costs and mounting...
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