Australia taxes and spends less than most comparable developed countries, while essential services remain underfunded.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was illegal, but Australia’s response has also exposed a deeper inconsistency in how it applies ...
One Nation wants to restart native forest logging in Victoria, but decades of losses, shrinking timber supply and a $402 ...
French students are protesting against an education system already divided by class. Parcoursup risks reinforcing those ...
The attack on Helen Haines has sharpened concern about political violence. Regulating platforms and policing threats matter, ...
Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis has reopened doors long closed to Big Tobacco, as companies lobby for excise cuts and gain ...
The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance to half a million people in Gaza as funding falls sharply, with ...
As the World Bank promotes AI’s potential to create better jobs, the experience of gig workers shows why algorithmic management must come with enforceable rights and protections. The World Bank has ...
Warnings about existential AI risk are distracting from immediate harms and helping justify rules that could entrench ...
Buying thousands of operations from private hospitals may cut waiting lists temporarily, but it does little to solve the ...
From apartheid South Africa to Rwanda, the ICC and Gaza, Navi Pillay’s career has been built on the belief that international law must protect people from abuses of state power.
Framing the Pacific as a permanent contest with China overstates the symmetry between the two powers, underestimates Pacific agency and risks producing the very outcome Australia fears.