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  • AUSTRALIA

    The quiet injustice facing the outer suburbs

    • Bronwen Clark
    • 24 April 2025

    As Australia moves through another federal election campaign, a quarter of a million new voters in the nation’s outer suburbs remain largely invisible in political discourse. These are not marginal communities in the cultural or economic sense; they are the nation’s most dynamic zones of growth, diversity, and aspiration.

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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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why Australians with disabilities are still left behind

    • Adam Hughes Henry
    • 22 April 2025

    By any measure of moral progress, a society should be judged by how it treats those who are most vulnerable. Yet in Australia, people with disabilities continue to be treated not as citizens with equal standing, but as problems to be managed; an inconvenience to be contained within a labyrinth of bureaucratic delay and economic rationalisation.

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  • RELIGION

    Who we cast out, who we crucify

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 16 April 2025

    In the lead up to Easter, the story of a man welcomed with palms and crucified days later takes on renewed urgency. In an age of closed borders and hardened politics, the Easter message casts a sharp light on how we treat the stranger, the exile, and the dispossessed.

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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

    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

    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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cyclone Alfred exposed a health system in disrepair

    • Jo Skinner
    • 25 March 2025

    When Cyclone Alfred swept through Queensland, the damage was swift, but its most enduring effects are harder to see. As the clean-up began, a quieter crisis emerged: disrupted care, rising health risks, and a fragile health system ill-equipped to cope. 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Street poll: Which party will win the votes of Australians doing it tough?

    • Barry Gittins
    • 13 March 2025

    Australia’s political class might make grand promises, but for those on the margins — homeless, underemployed, struggling with addiction — these pledges mean little. The people who have been left behind know the game is rigged. As elections approach, they watch from the outside, knowing their vote was never meant to count.

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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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  • 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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