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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Cheques and (power) balances reshape aid in a post-liberal world

    • Cameron Hill
    • 26 February 2025

    With cuts to USAID, international aid programs confront mounting challenges. Amid evolving power dynamics and strategic realignment, humanitarian assistance now faces fundamental questions about its future.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Climate change is fuelling teen despair. Here's what to do

    • Jo Skinner
    • 19 February 2025

    As climate disasters escalate, more young people grapple with anxiety, despair, and a deep sense of uncertainty. Finding resilience amid rising global temperatures has become a defining challenge for a generation confronting an increasingly unstable world.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Could DeepSeek be a gift to the developing world?

    • Stephen Minas
    • 10 February 2025

    The launch of DeepSeek's new AI model has upended conventional wisdom about who controls the future of artificial intelligence. With its open-source nature and unprecedented affordability, it may offer the Global South a rare opportunity to become creators and beneficiaries of AI innovation.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In a world of rigid borders, who belongs?

    • Nirmal Ghosh
    • 07 February 2025

    Amongst hardening borders and rising ethnonationalism globally, those who resist rigid identity labels find themselves caught between worlds — too foreign for home, too foreign for here. If identity is both fluid and contested, can belonging ever be more than a temporary state?

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  • RELIGION

    The priest who tried to warn people about the Khmer Rouge

    • Ray Cavanaugh
    • 05 February 2025

      When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With his passing, we remember a man who saw the truth before the world was ready to listen.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In search of Australia Day

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 23 January 2025

    Australia's national day remains a divisive symbol, rooted in colonial history. As the country grapples with issues of war, inequality, and climate change, the call for a more inclusive, meaningful celebration grows. How can a national day honour both the complexity of our history and the dignity of all Australians?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    When disaster becomes routine in L.A.

    • Jim McDermott
    • 16 January 2025

    In Los Angeles, wildfires blur the line between disaster and daily life. Evacuation alerts, smoke-filled horizons, and neighborhoods turned to ash coexist with packed restaurants and holiday plans. As the fires rage on, one question persists: is this the new normal? 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Falling, flying and the weight of the world

    • Barry Gittins
    • 18 December 2024

    As airports swell with holiday travellers chasing far-flung reunions and tropical getaways, a paradox looms above the tarmac: while we demand action on climate change, few are ready to ground themselves. Flight represents humanity’s defiance of limits — an act of freedom, wonder, and consequence. Can we balance soaring ambitions with planetary survival?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Reflecting on the year that was

    • David Halliday, Michael McVeigh, Laura Kings, Michele Frankeni, Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 December 2024

    To close the year for Eureka Street, the editorial team are taking a step back to reflect on the character of 2024. What did it demand of us? What did it teach us about ourselves, and the world we inhabit?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The horror of synagogue burning

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 December 2024

    The firebombing of Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue is a profound tragedy, reflecting the weight of historical hatred and contemporary tensions. Amid global grief and anger, this act of antisemitism compels us to reflect on the shared humanity of all people and the urgent need for peace, understanding, and ethical leadership.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What should we make of the social media ban?

    • David Halliday
    • 11 December 2024

    The global media fracas around a government daring to impose restrictions on children using social media was dramatic, but not unexpected. Reactions were predictably divisive and steeped in the sort of performative outrage that social media tends to encourage.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Climate finance still feels like charity, not justice

    • Damian Spruce
    • 10 December 2024

    At COP29, the world’s wealthiest nations promised to confront climate change—but delivered only a fraction of the required funds, leaving developing countries with a trillion-dollar shortfall. As Pope Francis warns of a sick planet, the question remains: Who pays for the climate crisis, and who bears the consequences?

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