Keywords: Uncertainty
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RELIGION
- 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
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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AUSTRALIA
- Max Jeganathan
- 07 May 2025
In the wake of an unexpectedly decisive election, Australians rejected grievance politics from both right and left. What emerged instead was a quiet preference for stability, civility, and competence: qualities that don’t often headline campaigns, but this time shaped the outcome. In 2025, trumpery just didn’t cut it.
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INTERNATIONAL
- 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
- Frank Brennan
- 23 April 2025
Francis was a pope prepared to blur the edges of doctrine, or at least its application, opening the doors of the Church to all those seeking love, mercy and forgiveness. He never doubted God’s capacity to love and forgive all who sought that love and forgiveness. He maintained the certainty, not of doctrine but of the simple piety of believers.
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INTERNATIONAL
As Trump dismantles America’s global aid program, and Europe follows suit, developing nations are left to fill the vacuum often with partners unfriendly to Western interests. In this new geopolitical terrain, Australia faces a choice: retreat with the rest, or lead through renewed investment in aid and regional diplomacy.
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RELIGION
- 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
- 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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RELIGION
- Vincent Long Van Nguyen
- 01 April 2025
As war rages, the climate suffers and inequality grows, the ancient idea of Jubilee feels newly urgent. Can an economy built on profit give way to one rooted in justice? Can the Church trade power for presence? Renewal may begin where the poor, the displaced and the earth come together.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 March 2025
With America's reliability in question, Australia is rethinking what security really means. Should it double down on military self-reliance, or reconsider the cost of placing defence above all else? As alliances fray and power shifts, the country faces a deeper reckoning: whom can it trust—and at what price?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Craven
- 07 March 2025
David Szalay’s Flesh unfolds with quiet, mesmeric intensity, charting a life shaped by desire, disappointment and disaster. As the ordinary shades into the catastrophic, Szalay’s controlled, unshowy prose builds a world of betrayals, longings and subtle devastations, proving, once again, that no one writes the ache of being alive quite like him.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Warwick McFadyen
- 06 March 2025
What does a forgotten cemetery job ad from 1860 reveal about the lives we honour, the work we overlook, and the honesty we still hope for? A chance discovery in the archives becomes a meditation on honesty, mortality, and the curious poetry of forgotten lives.
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