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Vol 35 No 10

19 May 2025


 

  • AUSTRALIA

    Inequality in an age of weather extremes

    • Barry Gittins
    • 21 May 2025

    As extreme weather becomes more common in Australia, so too do deaths from heat and cold. And those who suffer most are the most vulnerable: the poor, the unhoused. What does it mean to survive the climate when comfort is a privilege, not a right?

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  • RELIGION

    Gift or grift?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 21 May 2025

    When Donald Trump accepted a luxury jet from Qatar, many shrugged. It was just Trump being Trump. But his brazenness reveals deeper fault lines in our culture, where gifts are rarely free and power expects reward. Has our transactional age eclipsed ideals of grace, gratuity, and service completely?

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