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a system in quiet crisis where rising need meets shrinking support, and nonprofits face collapse under the weight of outdated policies, inadequate data, and market myths that threaten the future of social care in Australia.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    How did the Greens lose Melbourne?

    • Erica Cervini
    • 14 May 2025

    Adam Bandt’s unexpected loss in Melbourne has sent shockwaves through the Greens’ ranks. Once poised for expansion, the party is now reckoning with a bruising election result, voter backlash, and a confused identity. In their heartland, even the most loyal supporters seemed ready to walk away. So what happened?

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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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  • 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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  • 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

    Why the world still needs a pope

    • Miles Pattenden
    • 07 May 2025

    In an age of transient politics and market-driven morality, the papacy remains a rare constant. The pope has enduring significance as a global moral figurehead whose authority lies not in power but in the stubborn articulation of what ought to be.

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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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  • 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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  • 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

    Hope among the ruins

    • Danielle Terceiro
    • 16 April 2025

    Even in a world marked by war, exile and devastation, the Easter story offers a defiant hope: that ruin is not the end. Rooted in a vision of restoration beyond history’s violence, it speaks to a yearning deeper than despair — for justice, for peace, for a feast with no end.

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