Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too ...

International Benefits and costs Michael Jacobs 29 June 2025 Keir Starmer is paying a heavy price for spending cuts that lacked a defensible rationale International A shift in the climate for COP29 ...

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Other Voices TikTok and the future of politics Sam Freedman 26 September 2025 The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump ...

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In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

We sit on plastic chairs under strips of fluorescent lighting. Spread across the tables are large sheets of butcher’s paper, sticky notes and a paper cup full of pens. Twenty-one of the thirty people ...

In November 2017 a group of protesters in São Paulo burnt an effigy of acclaimed gender theorist Judith Butler outside an academic conference she was attending, while waving crucifixes and national ...

After months of public brinkmanship, with interest groups and commentators barracking from the sidelines and the threat of a double dissolution election hanging overhead, the federal government has ...

Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The ERF was the centrepiece ...