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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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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The king of the Cross

    • Barry Divola
    • 10 April 2025

    Vittorio ‘Vito’ Bianchi was small in stature, but a giant of a man who ruled over the Piccolo Bar café in Kings Cross for over 50 years. To live in the Cross meant that you knew Vittorio Bianchi. It was impossible not to. 

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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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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Liberation Day tariffs punish the poor

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 08 April 2025

    In a move as nostalgic as it is economically incoherent, Donald Trump’s proposed global tariff hike promises to punish the world’s poorest nations while claiming to revive America’s rusted-out industries. But the math is dubious, the logic muddled — and the unintended consequences, as ever, potentially vast.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The quiet crisis in childhood vaccination

    • Jo Skinner
    • 03 April 2025

    Immunisation has protected communities for centuries, from early smallpox prevention in 200 BC to the eradication of deadly diseases. Yet today, vaccine confidence is slipping. Misinformation, social media, and shifting parental anxieties are fuelling a quiet backlash, raising urgent questions about trust and public health in a changing world.

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  • RELIGION

    What the Church can learn from its exile to the margins

    • 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

    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

    The roots of American discontent

    • Nirmal Ghosh
    • 14 March 2025

    Donald Trump’s return to the White House was the culmination of decades of economic decline, political disillusionment, and cultural fracture, forces the liberal elite ignored at their peril. As Trump reshapes America’s role in the world, his rise reveals hard truths about democracy, populism, and power in the 21st century.

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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

    Change of era, or era of change?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 March 2025

    What feels like turbulence in the present often reveals itself, in hindsight, as the rupture of an era. From the fall of Rome to the upheavals of today, are we witnessing mere disruption, or the twilight of an old order?

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  • RELIGION

    An honest broker trying to find answers: Frank Brennan at 50 years a Jesuit

    • Jim McDermott
    • 13 March 2025

    Frank Brennan wears his prominence lightly. A priest, lawyer, and tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and refugees, he is as at home in political corridors as he is at the dinner table, welcoming friends with stories and good cheer. Now, celebrating 50 years as a Jesuit, he reflects on faith, justice, and a life of service.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The week America betrayed Ukraine and itself

    • Sergey Maidukov Sr.
    • 06 March 2025

    Thirty years after the US pledged to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty, Zelensky arrived in Washington asking America to honour its promise. What he found was a White House willing to humiliate him because the cost of keeping its word has become too high. 

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