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  • CARTOON

    Gilded age

    • Glen Le Lievre
    • 19 February 2025

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A sweet, sorrowful midnight walk in Broome

    • Sandy Toussaint
    • 13 February 2025

    In Broome, the work of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody uncovers not only personal grief but also the enduring systemic failures that continue to claim Indigenous lives. As the commission’s findings remain largely unimplemented, the question remains: why has Australia failed to meaningfully address the injustice of these deaths?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cinema en verite

    • Jim McDermott
    • 13 February 2025

    As streaming services reshape film distribution and the role of film in popular culture, critics including Quentin Tarantino, have reopened the debate around whether the art of film storytelling has been compromised. So how did we arrive at this point of scepticism, and is the magic of cinema salvageable?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The use and abuse of tariffs

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 February 2025

    Can tariffs really create a fair economy? As President Trump’s administration leans into protectionist trade policies, we must ask whether these strategies undermine the values of mutual respect and shared prosperity that should define both national and international relationships.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Japan poems

    • Geoff Page
    • 12 February 2025

    Where do cultures start, we ask? What forgotten emperor thought up walls without graffiti? I’m told now that it’s not that simple. Japan when under martial law was famous for its litter.

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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

    Bluesky thinking: Can the internet rebuild its town square?

    • Jenny Sinclair
    • 07 February 2025

    In the wake of Elon Musk’s tumultuous Twitter takeover, the social media landscape has fractured, scattering digital discourse across competing platforms. Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon each offer a vision of what comes next, but will any replicate the vital, unruly town square Twitter once was? 

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The Art of the Self-Serving Deal

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 06 February 2025

    Donald Trump’s presidency, often dismissed as chaotic, follows a clear, transactional logic: power over principle, loyalty over institutions, and reshaping America into a high-stakes deal-making enterprise. But history suggests such a system cannot last. In the meantime, how should we respond? 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    When neighbours were family on Argyle Street

    • Erica Cervini
    • 05 February 2025

    In 1940s Australia, neighbourhoods pulsed with neighborly connection — a stark contrast to today’s soaring rates of loneliness. As societies grow increasingly fragmented and isolation deepens, can that bygone era offer any lessons on healing our contemporary disconnection?

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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

    Smartphones took over the world. Can we opt out?

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 04 February 2025

    Smartphones dictate access to commerce, communication, and even education, and face-to-face transactions have all but disappeared. Have we willingly surrendered choice for convenience? As digital payments become the norm, are those choosing to live without a smartphone excluded from modern society?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The moral dilemma of negotiating with Putin

    • Sergey Maidukov Sr.
    • 04 February 2025

    As global powers weigh the prospect of negotiating with Vladimir Putin, indicted for war crimes, the moral dilemma looms: can peace justify sitting down with a war criminal? This question, compounded by the ongoing suffering in Ukraine, forces leaders to balance expediency against the principles of justice, accountability, and human rights.

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