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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

    The tragedy of Badfinger

    • Barry Divola
    • 15 May 2025

    You’ve heard their songs — on Breaking Bad, on the radio, sung by Nilsson or Mariah Carey— but you may not know the name Badfinger. Their music brushed greatness. Their story ended in ruin. Joey Molland, the last surviving member, has died. This is the tragic, unforgettable tale of the band that should’ve been the next Beatles.

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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a system in quiet crisis where rising need meets shrinking support, and nonprofits face collapse under the weight of outdated policies, inadequate data, and market myths that threaten the future of social care in Australia.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Ending the US Dollar's exorbitant privilege

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 07 May 2025

    Trump’s tariff-led reshaping of global trade is weakening the US dollar’s long-standing dominance. As central banks diversify away from US assets, what was once called an “exorbitant privilege” is beginning to look more like a burden — one shaped as much by petulant politics as economic mismanagement.

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  • RELIGION

    The papal conclave is a referendum on the Church's future

    • Miles Pattenden
    • 01 May 2025

    As cardinals gather in Rome, they must confront declining trust, shifting global power, financial scandals, and unresolved doctrinal divides within the Church. More than a choice of leader, this moment is a reckoning with modernity and the future direction of the Church itself.

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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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  • 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

    The legacy of a Jesuit pope

    • Frank Brennan
    • 23 April 2025

    Francis was a pope prepared to blur the edges of doctrine, or at least its application, opening the doors of the Church to all those seeking love, mercy and forgiveness. He never doubted God’s capacity to love and forgive all who sought that love and forgiveness. He maintained the certainty, not of doctrine but of the simple piety of believers.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Criminalising homelessness won’t make it go away

    • Barry Gittins
    • 10 April 2025

    In cities that pride themselves on liveability, a quiet war is being waged against the homeless with urban design and tough bylaws. What appears as civic order is, in truth, a hardening of public conscience, where compassion gives way to concealment, and suffering is swept from view.

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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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Legal ways to spoil the child

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 02 April 2025

    Countering a rise in youth crime with tough new bail laws will ensure community safety, but risks compounding the very crisis they aim to solve. As more children are placed in detention, the changes raise urgent questions about justice, policy failure, and the long-term social cost of prioritising punishment over prevention.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What the 2025 federal budget does and doesn't do

    • David James
    • 27 March 2025

    Australia’s Federal Budget offers a mix of tax cuts, spending increases, and modest relief for households, but fails to address the seismic shifts in global economics. With rising defense spending and minimal solutions for mounting debt, it remains unclear whether this budget can navigate the country’s economic vulnerabilities in an unpredictable world.

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