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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Fifty years since the fall of Phnom Penh

    • Kerry Murphy
    • 16 May 2025

    Khmer New Year in April 1975 began with promise but ended in horror. Days later, the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh, emptied hospitals, executed officials, and began a genocide. Decades on, the trauma endures in refugee stories, in temples abroad, and in a regime still marked by repression and foreign influence.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    When Shakespeare was the air we breathed

    • Peter Craven
    • 16 May 2025

    Was Shakespeare something you endured at school, or something that never left you? In this rich, panoramic reflection, Peter Craven explores the Bard’s enduring presence in culture, performance, and memory, from Brando to Gielgud, schoolyards to sonnets. A tribute to a lifetime’s treasure in Shakespeare.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    How we lost the boys, and how to bring them back

    • Cherie Gilmour
    • 09 May 2025

    As young men gravitate toward the manosphere, driven by alienation and grievance, society too often responds with silence or scorn. But if we don’t want boys shaped by bitterness and bravado, we must ask: what kind of men do we hope they’ll become, and who is offering them a path to get there?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Is Australia ready for a Pacific future?

    • Ken Haley
    • 09 May 2025

    Hamish McDonald’s Melanesia shatters Australia’s complacent view of the South Pacific as static and remote. With journalistic precision and historical urgency, he reveals a region marked by corruption, resilience, and political upheaval—forces poised to reshape Australia’s future, whether it’s prepared or not.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Politics without glitter, victory without fury

    • Peter Craven
    • 05 May 2025

    While much of the world drifts toward political extremes, Australia did something quietly radical: it chose the centre. In a night of subdued triumphs and unexpected grace, it was a reminder that democracy’s strength may still lie in its capacity for moderation, mercy, and surprise.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Robert Manne and the responsibilities of a public life

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 02 May 2025

    In an era of reflex opinion and vanishing accountability, moral seriousness can seem an anachronism. Yet history teaches that ideas — and the people who defend them — shape lives and nations. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Moral panic aside, Adolescence is a masterpiece

    • Peter Craven
    • 16 April 2025

    A cultural flashpoint disguised as a television drama, the four-part epic turns a teenage murder accusation into both high art and a bracing reckoning with sex, violence, and the internet’s moral void.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The man who played everyone but himself

    • Peter Craven
    • 11 April 2025

    Before heartthrobs became brand names, there was Richard Chamberlain. A matinee idol with the soul of a serious actor, he rose to fame as Dr. Kildare, sought after Shakespeare, and stole scenes from Gielgud. His legacy is a portrait of quiet yearning — for love, for truth, for artistic respect.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Great Australian Housing Con

    • David James
    • 04 April 2025

    As house prices soar and home ownership slips out of reach, Australia’s property market has become a $10 trillion engine of inequality — and yet, no major party will touch it. With an election looming, silence on the housing crisis reveals a deeper dysfunction: a political economy captive to debt and speculation.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Whose marbles?

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 04 April 2025

    The Parthenon Marbles have long stood at the centre of a cultural standoff between Britain and Greece — art or artefact, spoils or stewardship? As negotiations inch forward, the ancient stones carry modern weight, raising urgent questions about restitution, identity, and what it means to right the wrongs of empire.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Five years on, did we learn the wrong lessons from Covid?

    • David Hayward
    • 28 March 2025

    Covid offered a rare chance to reimagine the role of the state. What might have become a pivot to care and collective responsibility became a bonanza for entrenched interests. The crisis passed. Inequality returned. And the deeper reckoning that beckoned was quietly deferred, perhaps indefinitely.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why the debate over AFL origins won't go away

    • Jenny Sinclair
    • 28 March 2025

    The origins of Australian Rules Football are officially recorded, but not necessarily complete. As new questions emerge about Tom Wills, marngrook, and the silences in our national story, the game’s history becomes a mirror reflecting not only what we remember, but what we choose to forget.

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