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AUSTRALIA
- Jim McDermott
- 01 May 2025
From across the Pacific, Australia’s election looks refreshingly sane: debates over fuel taxes and modest wage hikes. But the surface calm belies deeper frustrations: housing scarcity, voter disillusionment, political evasion. But for an American watching from a fractured homeland, the question is how long that difference can hold.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stephen Minas
- 30 April 2025
As Australia prepares to vote, the legacy of Petro Georgiou casts a long shadow, reminding us that politics can still be principled, compassionate, and deeply human. He reshaped multicultural policy, challenged cruelty, and proved that conscience has a place in party politics.
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AUSTRALIA
- 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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MEDIA
Across a range of divisive issues from gender to race to public health, newsrooms are increasingly blurring the line between reporting and advocacy. As language is reshaped to reflect activist priorities, and opposing views are treated as moral threats, journalism risks losing its most essential commitment: telling the truth plainly.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Nirmal Ghosh
- 14 March 2025
Donald Trump’s return to the White House was the culmination of decades of economic decline, political disillusionment, and cultural fracture, forces the liberal elite ignored at their peril. As Trump reshapes America’s role in the world, his rise reveals hard truths about democracy, populism, and power in the 21st century.
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AUSTRALIA
- Barry Gittins
- 13 March 2025
Australia’s political class might make grand promises, but for those on the margins — homeless, underemployed, struggling with addiction — these pledges mean little. The people who have been left behind know the game is rigged. As elections approach, they watch from the outside, knowing their vote was never meant to count.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 January 2025
The United States' recent shift in immigration policy towards exclusions and deportations is a modern moral reckoning. It underscores the tension between a society’s right to regulate its borders and its responsibility to uphold the dignity of those who already call it home.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 December 2024
Australia’s recent immigration detention laws reveal a stark shift in governance, prioritising power over human dignity. As families face indefinite separation and bureaucrats enforce policies with brutal efficiency, the High Court's rebuke offers a glimmer of ethical resistance. But can such laws truly claim legitimacy in a democratic society?
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 04 December 2024
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When High Court rulings challenge government policy, they usually prompt reflection and refinement. But for the Federal Government, a recent decision on non-citizen rights has sparked a legislative overreach, mirroring the Opposition’s hardline stance.
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AUSTRALIA
- Erica Cervini
- 25 November 2024
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Once seen as the champions of climate action and progressive politics, the Greens are now grappling with internal chaos, falling poll numbers, and a disillusioned voter base. From controversies over identity politics to disputes about housing and Middle East policies, the party is facing a critical question: What do they stand for today?
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AUSTRALIA
- David Halliday
- 08 November 2024
As house prices soar, half the nation finds itself locked out of the property market. In conversation with Eureka Street, Alan Kohler untangles the web of tax incentives, population pressures, and government policies fueling the housing crisis to discover why, despite public outcry, solutions remain frustratingly out of reach.
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RELIGION
- John Warhurst
- 02 October 2024
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During a recent interview on his Papal plane coming back from Singapore Francis made some pointed remarks in response to a veiled question from an American journalist about the US Presidential election contest between the Democrat Kamala Harris and the Republican Donald Trump. He chose to describe the choice as between the ‘lesser of two evils’ because Harris is pro-abortion rights and Trump is anti-immigration.
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