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Intifar Chowdhury

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Young Australians aged 18 to 21 can vote. They should also be paid an adult wage

The Australian Council of Trade Unions is leading a renewed push for junior pay rates to be scrapped for adults aged between 18 and 21, in a move that...

15.10.2024 5

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Albanese’s $1.9m property listing is a far cry from the housing struggles of ordinary Australians

After evicting his tenant of four years, Anthony Albanese has finally listed his three-bedroom rental in Sydney’s inner west with hopes of selling...

13.09.2024 7

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Australians are in chronic housing stress. Can Clare O’Neil fix it?

Following Anthony Albanese’s recent cabinet shake-up, the new housing and homelessness minister, Clare O’Neil, was quick to express empathy for...

17.08.2024 9

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‘The dream is to reform Bangladesh’: can a new leader steer the country towards democracy?

When Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled in the face of a mass uprising last week, a power vacuum was left in the 170 million-person country....

13.08.2024 20

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Young people brought down Bangladesh’s repressive leader. Will they now be empowered to lead real change?

“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighbourhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a...

06.08.2024 10

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Younger Australians feel they are losing a rigged game. And who can blame them when the spending gap is getting even worse?

By now it should be no surprise that young Australians are doing it tough. In the post-Covid era, as the cost-of-living crisis tightens its grip on...

05.06.2024 10

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Australians are more likely to have partners who don’t share their political views than 25 years ago. Are we becoming more tolerant?

Australian men and women are both becoming more progressive across generations, my recent research shows. But young women are more left-leaning than...

30.04.2024 20

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Who screwed millennials? Australia’s economy has become a young people-screwing machine. So how do we unscrew ourselves?

No one woke up one fine morning with the grand ambition to mess with an entire generation just for kicks. Yet here millennials are, unequivocally,...

28.03.2024 80

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Political power in Australia is still overwhelmingly male. But beneath the despair, there’s reason for hope

It’s 2024, but power still looks like a man. Despite Australia’s claim to egalitarianism, achieving equal political participation and...

07.03.2024 30

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Australian voters are increasingly driven by issues rather than party loyalty – and that’s bad news for the old political order

As Australia pivots away from the two major parties, and a wave of generational turnover introduces a cohort of more progressive voters, the political...

27.02.2024 10

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Australia’s young people are moving to the left – though young women are more progressive than men, reflecting a global trend

Recent research suggests a growing gender gap in political leanings around the world. In Gen Z, the youngest voting generation, young women are...

02.02.2024 10

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