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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

    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

    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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  • 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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  • AUSTRALIA

    An American looks longingly on the Australian election

    • 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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  • RELIGION

    Faith in the balance: Religion and the 2025 Federal Election

    • John Warhurst
    • 30 April 2025

    Faith, once a quiet undercurrent in Australian elections, is now entangled in questions of ethnic identity, foreign policy and cultural grievance. Religion has returned to the centre of political life, only to find itself more divided, and more contested, than ever before.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The two paths before us

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 24 April 2025

    This year has been marked by growing introspection concerning our culture. At the heart of the division between a conflictual and an eirenical view of public life lie different understandings of the value of human life and of what it means for human beings to flourish.

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  • EDUCATION

    Are universities about to become a political priority?

    • Erica Cervini
    • 23 April 2025

    Despite a lot of talk about education, neither of the major parties has talked about the funding of universities. However this federal election is likely to be determined by voters under the age of 45, the very group that rising university fees and HELP (higher education loan program) debts are hitting the hardest.

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  • RELIGION

    What the bishops chose not to say

    • John Warhurst
    • 10 April 2025

    As Australia approaches a federal election, the bishops have offered a statement of gentle encouragement themed around hope. Yet in its caution and generality, it raises questions about missed opportunities for moral clarity, national relevance, and a more engaged voice in public life.

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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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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Trumpland abroad: The foreign policy of a deal-maker

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 02 April 2025

    No one can predict President Trump’s next move on the global stage. But what appears to be chaos has a clear historical precedent, rooted in a long American tradition of swaggering, often improvisational power. In Trump’s hands, diplomacy is spectacle: alliances unravel, spectacle dominates and self-interest rules.

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