A thoughtful collection of reflections reveals how the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter continue to carry truth, memory ...

Mark Carney’s Davos speech highlights a world in rupture, not transition. Australia needs to rethink its dependence on the ...

Female-only swimming sessions are not a cultural luxury. They are a proven, evidence-based public safety measure that too ...

Australia’s new hate laws give ministers broad powers to ban groups – but uncertainty about what counts as a “hate crime” ...

The Nationals are likely doomed if they don’t go back into a coalition. And they are likely doomed if they do.

Indonesia has assumed the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council, raising questions about credibility, consistency and the future of scrutiny in places like West Papua and Iran.

Donald Trump’s claim that NATO allies avoided frontline fighting in Afghanistan has sparked outrage abroad. In Australia, political leaders have said little.

Reports of billionaires building doomsday bunkers are often read as signs of looming catastrophe. Psychology suggests they reveal something else entirely.

Rising inequality, climate instability and ecological collapse are not separate crises but interacting threats that demand ...

China’s foreign policy priorities are driven more by domestic stability and long-standing sovereignty claims than by ambitions to dominate the global order.

Net zero targets are increasingly being met through offsets and land-sector accounting rather than real cuts to fossil fuel emissions. The result is climate progress on paper, while pollution ...

Australia’s leaders are trying to avoid becoming a target in a harsher, more coercive world. But silence and caution can’t ...