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Democracy is faltering. Elected government action is increasingly constrained by the preferences of powerful industrial, ...

The short-term world food crisis caused by the conflict in West Asia is superimposed on a far graver, deeper and ...

Home battery installations shattered records in April. Householders were racing to secure the biggest possible discount for ...

The Australian Government has to manage the return of its citizens, except in very particular circumstances when citizenship ...

The distribution of third-place preferences will be fundamental in this weekend's Farrer by-election. Whoever wins, be ...

Almost everyone in prison today will return to our communities. Whether they reoffend depends on what we do to prevent ...

In the current Iran war, both sides are seeking to shape the narrative surrounding whatever agreement eventually emerges.

John Roberts promised impartiality when he became Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Instead, over 20 years he has systematically ruled in favour of one party’s structural interests across voting ...

The return of four Australian women and nine children from Syria after the conflict with Islamic State is no cause for alarm ...

The US continues to lead in developing AI, but risks falling behind in deploying it at scale. China, once seen primarily as a ...

Children are watching, thinking and feeling worried, but also hopeful, about the future of the environment. Those feelings ...