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  • AUSTRALIA

    Behind the classroom door, sexual harassment is becoming routine

    • Melinda Tankard Reist
    • 11 April 2025

    A growing number of female teachers in Australia are leaving the profession, citing daily sexual harassment from their own students. Fuelled by pornography and social media, the misconduct ranges from crude comments to deepfake abuse, raising urgent questions about safety, consent, and the culture festering inside today’s classrooms.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In the name of God, stop the killing

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 10 April 2025

    What makes a war just? Can any goal justify the deaths of tens of thousands, the bombing of hospitals, the starvation of civilians? As the devastation in Gaza deepens, these questions press harder. In a conflict marked by profound suffering, what moral, legal, or human standards can still hold?

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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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  • 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

    Brushes with the badlands

    • David Halliday
    • 03 February 2025

      “Underworld figure shot in our basement carpark.” Australia is meant to be one of the world’s safest places, where violence belongs to someone else’s world, until it shows up at our door. When it does, how are we supposed to respond?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Reflecting on the year that was

    • David Halliday, Michael McVeigh, Laura Kings, Michele Frankeni, Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 December 2024

    To close the year for Eureka Street, the editorial team are taking a step back to reflect on the character of 2024. What did it demand of us? What did it teach us about ourselves, and the world we inhabit?

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  • EDUCATION

    The hidden cost of digital childhood

    • Peter Hosking
    • 11 December 2024

      In a world reshaped by smartphones and social media, Generations Z and Alpha grapple with rising anxiety, diminished attention spans, and the erosion of real-world connections. As governments and parents push for reforms, the challenge is clear: how can technology serve young people’s growth without exploiting their vulnerabilities for profit?

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Can an economy prosper without endless growth?

    • Phil Jones
    • 28 November 2024
    1 Comment

    Infinite economic growth on a finite planet is a paradox we can no longer ignore. As environmental crises deepen, solutions like the Steady State Economy offer a roadmap to balance sustainability and prosperity. Yet, transitioning from growth-centric systems raises hard questions: Can we create an economy that values life over profit?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    'I am tired but not defeated': A doctor's hope for Beirut

    • Ali Almohammed
    • 28 October 2024
    1 Comment

      In war-torn Beirut, where schools now shelter families fleeing destruction, a doctor finds echoes of his own past displacement. Amidst the pain, he witnesses resilience, but also a deep fatigue, as families yearn for peace and normalcy. 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The silent epidemic: Our hidden child abuse crisis

    • Smeeta Singh
    • 06 September 2024

    Australia is quietly confronting a national crisis: one in every four Australian children has been a victim of child sexual abuse, but you would never guess the scale of this crisis, given the lack of urgency from our national discourse.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The two American freedoms

    • Sarah Klenbort
    • 21 August 2024
    2 Comments

    For a nation ‘conceived in liberty’, much of how this U.S. election will play out will hinge on different understandings of the word ‘freedom’, a term that has two distinct and separate meanings depending on whether the person you’re asking votes red or blue.

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  • EDUCATION

    What should anti-discrimination exemptions look like?

    • Michael Furtado
    • 20 March 2024
    6 Comments

    As challenges to anti-discrimination exemptions are likely to persist within Catholic education, how can the government and religious institutions collaborate effectively to balance the freedom of expressing religious beliefs with safeguarding the rights and freedoms of everyone involved?

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