Australia has good reason to scrutinise foreign interference risks, but professional, cultural and community ties should not become proxies for divided loyalty. (more…)
Category: Politics
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Pakistan has failed its women amid rising sexual violence
A succession of killings, assaults and sexual violence has exposed the dangers women face across Pakistan – and the failures of institutions meant to protect them. (more…)
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The world is not prepared for the scale of future migration
Climate disruption, conflict, resource scarcity and political instability are driving rising migration, with much larger movements of people likely in coming decades. (more…)
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What kind of country is Australia actually trying to become?
Australia has no shortage of wealth, projects or policy targets. What it lacks is a coherent strategy for building the capabilities its future society will need. (more…)
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One Nation is the symptom. Labor must treat the cause
One Nation’s rise reflects deeper economic insecurity, political alienation and distrust in institutions. Defeating it requires more than condemnation. (more…)
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AI slop is learning to tell us what we want to hear
AI-generated misinformation is not only exploiting anger and fear. Increasingly, it is feeding people comforting stories tailored to their politics and values. (more…)
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Albanese governs with insiders and leaves voters outside the room
The Albanese government may be adept at negotiating with insiders, but its failure to explain decisions and engage voters is deepening public distrust. (more…)
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What Paul Keating wants for a country ‘swimming between sharks’
Paul Keating says Australia should resist strategic subordination to the United States without accepting Chinese dominance, and instead preserve its own sovereignty. (more…)
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It’s too late for 1.5°C. That doesn’t mean we give up
The UN now accepts that global warming is going to exceed 1.5°C but it’s unlikely that this will change anything governments or corporations do. It’s now too late to avoid catastrophic global warming. The task now is to limit further damage and prepare honestly for what follows. (more…)
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Aggression against school staff is a workplace failure, not a wellbeing problem
Aggression towards teachers and principals is being normalised as something to manage, rather than treated as a workplace hazard employers must prevent. (more…)
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Protesters challenge Israeli military-linked presence at Sydney Marathon
Hundreds of protesters lined the Sydney Marathon route over the presence of Israeli military-linked participants, calling for scrutiny under Australia’s character laws. (more…)
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The danger of not knowing what you don’t know, part two: Why Trump’s Board of Peace is floundering
In the second of a two-part series, Connie Peck explains why Trump’s Board of Peace is struggling to turn its Gaza plan into reality as implementation stalls and critical institutions remain undeployed. (more…)
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The far right feeds on grievance. Democracy has to answer it
Falling trust, social isolation and a sense of lost status can make far-right politics more appealing. Rebuilding connection and democratic voice is part of the answer. (more…)
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Powerhouse Parramatta is about to open without the leader who defined it
Lisa Havilah’s departure just weeks before Powerhouse Parramatta opens leaves a museum shaped closely around her vision facing questions of leadership, authority and legitimacy. (more…)
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Europe should stand with Canada against Trump’s economic coercion
Trump’s escalating pressure on Canada should be a warning to Europe: middle powers need deeper economic and strategic cooperation if they are to resist coercion. (more…)
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Australians are hunkering down – and becoming less happy
Australians are becoming less connected, trusting and satisfied with life, but resilience remains – and tackling insecurity could help rebuild social cohesion. (more…)
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Nepal’s catastrophe demands more than climate silence
As climate-fuelled disasters intensify, political leaders should stop treating discussion of their causes as untimely and confront the consequences of continued inaction.
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What are we missing about Helen of Troy?
Debate over who can play Helen of Troy misses something more interesting: in Homer, she emerges as a rare figure capable of questioning fate, power and her own responsibility. (more…)
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Britain’s security establishment has discovered the ecological crisis
A UK national security assessment warns that ecosystem collapse threatens food, water, health and geopolitical stability – and that no country will escape the consequences.
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Performance Politics: how Australian politicians write themselves into history
Joshua Black’s ‘Performance Politics’ traces how Australian politicians have used memoirs, publishing and television to shape public personas and secure their political legacies. (more…)
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Australia cannot deny its share of the climate catastrophe
Bob Brown says Australia cannot keep expanding fossil fuel production while denying its share of responsibility for the mounting human toll of climate change. (more…)
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is becoming harder to ignore
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) now represents 3.4 billion people and a quarter of global GDP, as its members seek a greater role in shaping a multipolar international order. (more…)
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The danger of not knowing what you don’t know, part one: How Trump dismantled the US Institute of Peace
In the first of a two-part series, the destruction of the US Institute of Peace shows what is lost when decades of conflict-resolution expertise are discarded. (more…)
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China’s AI boom is reviving Marxist economics
China’s use of AI in industrial production is reviving Marxist ideas about labour and value – and raising the possibility of an economy less dependent on capitalist accumulation. (more…)
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Australia must break the link between alcohol, schools and sport
Alcohol-related deaths and harms are rising, yet schools and organisations associated with them still promote drinking. Education should help break the cycle, not reinforce it.
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Big Tech knows what its algorithms are doing. Australia should too
Australia’s public sphere is increasingly shaped by privately controlled algorithms, yet researchers and regulators still lack the independent access needed to see how those systems work. (more…)
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EVs outsell petrol and diesel as Australia’s car market shifts
Battery EVs took a record 24.9 per cent of Australia’s new-car market in August, outselling both petrol and diesel as electrified vehicles continued their rapid rise.
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The major parties collapsed. Why didn’t the Greens rise?
As Labor and Coalition support has collapsed, the Greens have remained stuck around 12 per cent – constrained by geography, culture and a changing generational base. (more…)
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The pieces I can’t shake – message from the Editor
Some articles do more than inform. They challenge assumptions, expose uncomfortable truths and stay with us – which is why independent journalism needs room to publish them.
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The world will overshoot 1.5°C. That is not a reason to give up
The world is likely to pass 1.5°C of warming around 2030, but rapid emissions cuts and carbon removal could still make the overshoot temporary and avoid far worse damage. (more…)