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, ...
The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance to half a million people in Gaza as funding falls sharply, with ...
Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis has reopened doors long closed to Big Tobacco, as companies lobby for excise cuts and gain ...
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.
Buying thousands of operations from private hospitals may cut waiting lists temporarily, but it does little to solve the ...
As diplomacy resumes, a proposed settlement would combine Ukrainian neutrality and EU membership with an armistice line, limits on NATO enlargement and a new European security framework.
AUKUS is sold as a sovereign Australian defence capability. But its strategic logic and dependence on US systems raise a harder question: whose homeland is it really designed to defend?
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.