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  • RELIGION

    Synodality and the federal election: What should the bishops say?

    • John Warhurst
    • 25 March 2025

    As Australia approaches another federal election, the Catholic Church, long ambivalent about democratic politics, prepares to weigh in. Its official statement could play it safe, as in years past — or it could offer a deeper moral vision, confronting the global drift toward division with the quiet radicalism of synodality.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The age of outrage is hollowing us out

    • Max Jeganathan
    • 24 March 2025

    Amid rising hate speech and tighter laws, something deeper festers. In a culture wired for outrage and shaped by tribal algorithms, we’re learning not just to disagree, but to despise. What happens when identity is built on enmity, and public debate becomes less about ideas and more about who we’re against?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In a world of rigid borders, who belongs?

    • Nirmal Ghosh
    • 07 February 2025

    Amongst hardening borders and rising ethnonationalism globally, those who resist rigid identity labels find themselves caught between worlds — too foreign for home, too foreign for here. If identity is both fluid and contested, can belonging ever be more than a temporary state?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Weep with immigrants

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 30 January 2025

    The United States' recent shift in immigration policy towards exclusions and deportations is a modern moral reckoning. It underscores the tension between a society’s right to regulate its borders and its responsibility to uphold the dignity of those who already call it home.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    When it comes to Australia Day, wattle stop the arguments?

    • Stephen Alomes
    • 25 January 2025

    With debates around Australia Day continuing to divide, might shifting the national celebration to another day, rooted in resilience and renewal, offer a fresh start? By embracing a new unifying symbol, Australia could move beyond the pain of the past toward a national day that reflects unity, hope, and shared values.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Trump inaugurated

    • Peter Craven
    • 24 January 2025

    In a second presidency begun with a spate of brash decrees — annexing Greenland, scrapping birthright citizenship — and forging odd alliances with billionaires, Donald Trump is already defying expectations. How did we reach this unsettling moment, and can America endure it?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Offshore people dumping by a spooked government

    • Frank Brennan
    • 04 December 2024
    1 Comment

    When High Court rulings challenge government policy, they usually prompt reflection and refinement. But for the Federal Government, a recent decision on non-citizen rights has sparked a legislative overreach, mirroring the Opposition’s hardline stance. 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Long-term detention, curfews and ankle bracelets for asylum seekers under the rule of law

    • Frank Brennan
    • 08 November 2024
    7 Comments

    Last week, Australia’s High Court blocked government restrictions on non-citizens with criminal records. As Parliament scrambles to impose new restrictions, Chief Justice Stephen Gageler’s court remains steadfast against policies deemed discriminatory and excessively punitive.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    'Tisn't the season to be jolly

    • Ken Haley, David Halliday
    • 31 October 2024
    1 Comment

    In the most bitter of election seasons in America, thousands of votes will be won and lost by seeking to protect the civil rights of Israelis and Palestinians alike, although any kind of lasting peace will require greater effort than any U.S. political party has yet devoted to it.

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  • RELIGION

    Pope Francis and the politics of Catholic conscience

    • John Warhurst
    • 02 October 2024
    4 Comments

    During a recent interview on his Papal plane coming back from Singapore Francis made some pointed remarks in response to a veiled question from an American journalist about the US Presidential election contest between the Democrat Kamala Harris and the Republican Donald Trump. He chose to describe the choice as between the ‘lesser of two evils’ because Harris is pro-abortion rights and Trump is anti-immigration.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Colonisation studies expand horizons

    • Bruce Pennay
    • 25 September 2024
    1 Comment

    From 2027, NSW students will undertake a mandatory study of First Nations Peoples’ experiences of colonisation. This is welcome in the wake of the failed national referendum and the increasing insistence on reconciliation at the local level.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The dangers of a captured democracy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 September 2024
    3 Comments

    Anxieties about democracy around the world today are well-founded. While we rightly celebrate our democratic institutions, it's crucial to acknowledge the vast wealth disparities and the growing influence of powerful corporations. 

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