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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Riding shotgun with madness: Christian Kracht's strange, blazing novel

    • Peter Craven
    • 23 May 2025

    In Eurotrash, Christian Kracht delivers a surreal, darkly comic road novel charting a son’s journey with his mentally unwell mother through memory, madness, and the wreckage of European identity. Blending derangement with elegance, it’s a love story, a satire, and a reckoning with history, all in a single, astonishing ride.

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  • RELIGION

    The legacy of Pope Francis in an unjust world

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 21 May 2025

    Pope Francis’s legacy is one of bold moral clarity: a Church allied with the poor, a planet in peril, and a global economy in need of reform. From synodal listening to fierce critiques of neoliberalism, his vision offers both rebuke and hope; a call to conscience in an age of crisis.

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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

    The quiet collapse of Australia's social safety net: In conversation with David Gilchrist

    • David Halliday
    • 15 May 2025

    What happens when governments underfund the services that hold our social fabric together? Economist David Gilchrist exposes a system in quiet crisis where rising need meets shrinking support, and nonprofits face collapse under the weight of outdated policies, inadequate data, and market myths that threaten the future of social care in Australia.

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  • RELIGION

    An Augustinian pope from north and south

    • Frank Brennan
    • 12 May 2025

    A new pope from the Americas, shaped by Peruvian missions and Roman canon law, signals a Church recalibrating for an era of technological upheaval and moral uncertainty. Rooted in tradition yet attentive to the margins, his election hints at a renewed focus on justice, dialogue, and global spiritual responsibility.

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  • RELIGION

    Going forward with Pope Leo

    • Michael McVeigh
    • 09 May 2025

    Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff, brings a global, socially engaged background and cautious conservatism to the papacy. Fluent in five languages and steeped in canon law, his past hints at reform tempered by tradition. His views on synodality, gender, and justice will shape Catholicism’s next chapter.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What kind of society do we want?

    • Paul Smyth
    • 08 May 2025

    The 2025 election marked a pause in Australia’s political life. As old policy narratives falter, we have an opportunity to ask ourselves: what kind of society are we trying to build? Across faiths and traditions, the idea of the common good offers a path forward beyond division and drift.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What the election says about us

    • Max Jeganathan
    • 07 May 2025

    In the wake of an unexpectedly decisive election, Australians rejected grievance politics from both right and left. What emerged instead was a quiet preference for stability, civility, and competence: qualities that don’t often headline campaigns, but this time shaped the outcome. In 2025, trumpery just didn’t cut it.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Public and private faces

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 07 May 2025

    In an election full of surprises, the most revealing were not electoral upsets but glimpses of unexpected humanity. Peter Dutton’s gracious concession contrasts with his public record, and urges a politics where words don’t wound, and dignity is not reserved for private life alone.

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  • RELIGION

    The politics and process of the papal conclave

    • John Warhurst
    • 05 May 2025

    As the cardinals prepare to elect a new pope, the centuries-old conclave process proceeds with solemnity and speed. But beneath the tradition lies the question of whether a closed, clerical system still reflects the needs of a diverse, divided, and global Church.

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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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why Australians with disabilities are still left behind

    • Adam Hughes Henry
    • 22 April 2025

    By any measure of moral progress, a society should be judged by how it treats those who are most vulnerable. Yet in Australia, people with disabilities continue to be treated not as citizens with equal standing, but as problems to be managed; an inconvenience to be contained within a labyrinth of bureaucratic delay and economic rationalisation.

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