Politics
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The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than everSeptember 16, 2024
12 mins
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As Michael Easson notes in his new Chris Watson biography, Labor's first PM sought to civilise capitalism, not bring it downSeptember 15, 2024
9 mins
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Remarkably, the Voice went down despite big business, big tech, big sport, and big philanthropySeptember 14, 2024
14 mins
The latest
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The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.September 9, 2024
18 mins
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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.September 8, 2024
12 mins
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If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.September 6, 2024
6 mins
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The cost of the Paris Olympics will never be known, but whatever it might be the French taxpayer will foot the billSeptember 1, 2024
9 mins
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Apparently, what respectable Australian researchers do is assume that there is a link between suspensions and incarceration because American researchers claim to have found one.August 29, 2024
16 mins
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Vance, like many former-Never Trumpers, belatedly acknowledged that Trump was simply ahead of the curve when it came to economic nationalism and protectionist initiatives to defend the United States against the predatory and antagonistic practices of foreign interests—not least Beijing which, according to some estimates, steals as much as half a trillion dollars a year in American intellectual property.August 29, 2024
19 mins
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Russia has long insisted that in return for peace, Ukraine must give up the 20 per cent of its territory that Russia currently occupies as well as any aspiration of joining NATO. These terms were unacceptable to Ukraine.August 29, 2024
9 mins
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I fled the living room on July 1 when new Governor-General Samantha Mostyn delivered a genuinely harrowing swearing-in speech. “These testing times call for an unstinting focus on kindness, on care and on respect,” our national Political Compassion Lady said. Kindness! Care! Respect! Even a few nearby bees, resting on the window sill between pollen excursions, immediately sprinted skywards.August 29, 2024
9 mins
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Today, Peter Hartcher, who is reporting from America, has gone to press with his big wrap on the Democratic National Convention. It’s a very positive piece about the re-machined Kamala HarrisAugust 25, 2024
6 mins
