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Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

Legislation is not a press conference. It has to anticipate future situations and be coherent 20 years hence.

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WA Today

Waleed Aly

Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

Legislation is not a press conference. It has to anticipate future situations and be coherent 20 years hence.

latest 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

Legislation is not a press conference. It has to anticipate future situations and be coherent 20 years hence.

latest 4

The Age

Waleed Aly

Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

Legislation is not a press conference. It has to anticipate future situations and be coherent 20 years hence.

latest 5

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

Perhaps the key to the Venezuela puzzle is to remember that Trump’s administration is made up of divergent factions. When it acts it is because one...

08.01.2026 9

WA Today

Waleed Aly

To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

Perhaps the key to the Venezuela puzzle is to remember that Trump’s administration is made up of divergent factions. When it acts it is because one...

08.01.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

Perhaps the key to the Venezuela puzzle is to remember that Trump’s administration is made up of divergent factions. When it acts it is because one...

08.01.2026 10

The Age

Waleed Aly

To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

Perhaps the key to the Venezuela puzzle is to remember that Trump’s administration is made up of divergent factions. When it acts it is because one...

08.01.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Bondi does not seem to come from a world of “networks” and “cells”. All signs are it was much more self-driven than that.

01.01.2026 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Bondi does not seem to come from a world of “networks” and “cells”. All signs are it was much more self-driven than that.

01.01.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Bondi does not seem to come from a world of “networks” and “cells”. All signs are it was much more self-driven than that.

01.01.2026 10

The Age

Waleed Aly

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Bondi does not seem to come from a world of “networks” and “cells”. All signs are it was much more self-driven than that.

01.01.2026 9

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

Bondi shows us that politics is the very worst forum for us to try to stand together

Overcoming this horror, grief and division requires something far more radical than politics can offer.

25.12.2025 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Bondi shows us that politics is the very worst forum for us to try to stand together

Overcoming this horror, grief and division requires something far more radical than politics can offer.

25.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Bondi shows us that politics is the very worst forum for us to try to stand together

Overcoming this horror, grief and division requires something far more radical than politics can offer.

25.12.2025 20

The Age

Waleed Aly

Bondi shows us that politics is the very worst forum for us to try to stand together

Overcoming this horror, grief and division requires something far more radical than politics can offer.

25.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

The social media ban may be a more seismic shift than we realise

There aren’t many cases like this where the divide between experts and the people is so stark. But the implications go far beyond the issue of youth...

11.12.2025 8

WA Today

Waleed Aly

The social media ban may be a more seismic shift than we realise

There aren’t many cases like this where the divide between experts and the people is so stark. But the implications go far beyond the issue of youth...

11.12.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

The social media ban may be a more seismic shift than we realise

There aren’t many cases like this where the divide between experts and the people is so stark. But the implications go far beyond the issue of youth...

11.12.2025 10

The Age

Waleed Aly

The social media ban may be a more seismic shift than we realise

There aren’t many cases like this where the divide between experts and the people is so stark. But the implications go far beyond the issue of youth...

11.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

Last week I travelled to Mecca, shaved my head and learnt a lesson about masculinity

For those who have not made the pilgrimage to Mecca, something may surprise. The men cry. Quietly and intimately, but obviously. Some are hard men...

04.12.2025 20

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Last week I travelled to Mecca, shaved my head and learnt a lesson about masculinity

For those who have not made the pilgrimage to Mecca, something may surprise. The men cry. Quietly and intimately, but obviously. Some are hard men...

04.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Last week I travelled to Mecca, shaved my head and learnt a lesson about masculinity

For those who have not made the pilgrimage to Mecca, something may surprise. The men cry. Quietly and intimately, but obviously. Some are hard men...

04.12.2025 40

The Age

Waleed Aly

Last week I travelled to Mecca, shaved my head and learnt a lesson about masculinity

For those who have not made the pilgrimage to Mecca, something may surprise. The men cry. Quietly and intimately, but obviously. Some are hard men...

04.12.2025 30

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

Britain is now impersonating Australia. It’s all it can do to fend off the far right

British politics seems like a strange echo of our 2010s: that era when our major parties kept axing sitting prime ministers, and asylum seekers were...

20.11.2025 8

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Britain is now impersonating Australia. It’s all it can do to fend off the far right

British politics seems like a strange echo of our 2010s: that era when our major parties kept axing sitting prime ministers, and asylum seekers were...

20.11.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Britain is now impersonating Australia. It’s all it can do to fend off the far right

British politics seems like a strange echo of our 2010s: that era when our major parties kept axing sitting prime ministers, and asylum seekers were...

20.11.2025 8

The Age

Waleed Aly

Britain is now impersonating Australia. It’s all it can do to fend off the far right

British politics seems like a strange echo of our 2010s: that era when our major parties kept axing sitting prime ministers, and asylum seekers were...

20.11.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

Mamdani’s New York win is like One Nation’s surge here. Both offer false hope

Zohran Mamdani and Pauline Hanson are prospering on opposite sides of one of the most defining divides in modern politics: city versus country.

13.11.2025 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Mamdani’s New York win is like One Nation’s surge here. Both offer false hope

Zohran Mamdani and Pauline Hanson are prospering on opposite sides of one of the most defining divides in modern politics: city versus country.

13.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Mamdani’s New York win is like One Nation’s surge here. Both offer false hope

Zohran Mamdani and Pauline Hanson are prospering on opposite sides of one of the most defining divides in modern politics: city versus country.

13.11.2025 10

The Age

Waleed Aly

Mamdani’s New York win is like One Nation’s surge here. Both offer false hope

Zohran Mamdani and Pauline Hanson are prospering on opposite sides of one of the most defining divides in modern politics: city versus country.

13.11.2025 30

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

Think the government runs Triple Zero? Wrong. No wonder it’s failing

Failure, incompetence, even negligence typically occurs in a context that makes it likely. So it is with our lifesaving emergency service that keeps...

06.11.2025 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Think the government runs Triple Zero? Wrong. No wonder it’s failing

Failure, incompetence, even negligence typically occurs in a context that makes it likely. So it is with our lifesaving emergency service that keeps...

06.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Think the government runs Triple Zero? Wrong. No wonder it’s failing

Failure, incompetence, even negligence typically occurs in a context that makes it likely. So it is with our lifesaving emergency service that keeps...

06.11.2025 5

The Age

Waleed Aly

Think the government runs Triple Zero? Wrong. No wonder it’s failing

Failure, incompetence, even negligence typically occurs in a context that makes it likely. So it is with our lifesaving emergency service that keeps...

06.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

I was intimidated by anti-immigration protesters. But rules can’t depend on the cause

It’s common for me to be recognised in public, and in my experience, that can go one of two ways: it can exempt me from people’s prejudice because...

23.10.2025 9

The Age

Waleed Aly

Menzies’ Liberal Party is dead. Long live ... what?

This is not simply some garden variety post-election soul-searching of the defeated. This is a party figuring out whether it can go on.

17.10.2025 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Menzies’ Liberal Party is dead. Long live ... what?

This is not simply some garden variety post-election soul-searching of the defeated. This is a party figuring out whether it can go on.

17.10.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Menzies’ Liberal Party is dead. Long live ... what?

This is not simply some garden variety post-election soul-searching of the defeated. This is a party figuring out whether it can go on.

17.10.2025 10

The Age

Waleed Aly

Menzies’ Liberal Party is dead. Long live ... what?

This is not simply some garden variety post-election soul-searching of the defeated. This is a party figuring out whether it can go on.

17.10.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

The housing numbers that show why we’re locked into an endless conflict

When people feel so insecure about something so essential, everything frays. The research is clear that economic distress has deep psychological...

09.10.2025 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly

The housing numbers that show why we’re locked into an endless conflict

When people feel so insecure about something so essential, everything frays. The research is clear that economic distress has deep psychological...

09.10.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

The housing numbers that show why we’re locked into an endless conflict

When people feel so insecure about something so essential, everything frays. The research is clear that economic distress has deep psychological...

09.10.2025 9

The Age

Waleed Aly

The housing numbers that show why we’re locked into an endless conflict

When people feel so insecure about something so essential, everything frays. The research is clear that economic distress has deep psychological...

09.10.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

Trump has licensed Netanyahu to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza. His plan is peace, maybe – or else

Trump has shown he can, if he is so motivated, simply require Israel to do things. Why, then, won’t he make Israel let more aid into Gaza or give up...

02.10.2025 8

WA Today

Waleed Aly

Trump has licensed Netanyahu to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza. His plan is peace, maybe – or else

Trump has shown he can, if he is so motivated, simply require Israel to do things. Why, then, won’t he make Israel let more aid into Gaza or give up...

02.10.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Waleed Aly

Trump has licensed Netanyahu to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza. His plan is peace, maybe – or else

Trump has shown he can, if he is so motivated, simply require Israel to do things. Why, then, won’t he make Israel let more aid into Gaza or give up...

02.10.2025 8

The Age

Waleed Aly

Trump has licensed Netanyahu to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza. His plan is peace, maybe – or else

Trump has shown he can, if he is so motivated, simply require Israel to do things. Why, then, won’t he make Israel let more aid into Gaza or give up...

02.10.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Waleed Aly

No need to rush, Albanese. Meeting with Trump can leave a country worse off

Donald Trump is famous for saying one thing, doing another and taking whatever path he chooses. It’s no wonder the prime minister wasn’t in a rush...

26.09.2025 10

WA Today

Waleed Aly