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Mainstream media is eagerly repeating the public relations triumphs of fossil fuel giants, but the fundamental laws of thermodynamics reveal a multi-billion-dollar accounting trick. read now...

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Managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the prospect of the Teal Independents forming a new political force and what it might mean for our democracy. read now...

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Few observers in Australia’s media have had a kind word for last month’s controversial Budget. read now...

A clear guide to 2026 aviation fleet trends, what airline orders and retirements mean for Australian fares, routes, cabins, and regional connectivity. read now...

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The Farrer by-election has exposed the cracks in Australia's two-party system and revived the case for electoral reform. read now...

New Caledonia is a test of whether France is prepared to apply the human rights principles it proclaims to its own territories. read now...

Labor cannot keep claiming to be the voice of labour if the people at the top have never really laboured. read now...

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Legislative reform is needed when paid political agitators profit from the exploitation of democratic institutions. read now...

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A memoir by author Peter Wilson explores dyslexia, self-discovery and the many forms intelligence can take. read now...

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Australia’s soaring antidepressant use is forcing an overdue reckoning with the serotonin myth, overprescribing and the medicalisation of ordinary human distress. read now...

Australia’s housing crisis cannot be solved without confronting the trade-offs between affordability, wealth and intergenerational equity. read now...

An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the “Eloi” of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many. read now...

As global military spending surges to record levels, the climate cost of war and rearmament remains largely uncounted, unreported and exempt from scrutiny. read now...

Twenty-six people face possible gaol time for displaying or voicing words the Crisafulli Government have declared illegal. read now...

Power politics, economic dependence and international law are blocking diplomatic action on state-sponsored hacking. read now...

Australia's housing crisis is a violation of basic human rights and international law. read now...

The controversial effort to revive New Zealand’s extinct giant moa is moving from theory to technology, but scientists remain divided over whether de-extinction is possible, ethical or even necessary. read now...

The Gaza flotilla drew global attention, but its activists delivered a stark message: the suffering they briefly experienced reflects the daily reality faced by Palestinians. read now...

Despite economic growth and rising profits, many Australians have experienced a decade of stagnant living standards. read now...

A recent study by LJ Hooker found that 74 per cent of Aussies want to eventually buy their own home. read now...

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Media neutrality is enabling powerful figures to normalise racism while ordinary people face public condemnation for similar behaviour. read now...

The LNP’s mixed messaging on migration risks undermining its attempts to court multicultural Australia. read now...

Examining Australia’s prison system through the lens of release and reintegration, the greatest failures in justice occur not inside custody, but at the point people return to society. read now...

The practical, legal and economic realities behind Labor, Coalition and One Nation migration targets are far more complex than campaign slogans suggest. read now...

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Opposition Leader Angus Taylor would seek to jump on the orange bandwagon by cosying up to One Nation, and emulating Trump, given the PHONies’ recent surge in popularity and the Libs’ ever-plunging support....

The life and legacy of activist Caroline Graham reflects decades of struggle across feminism, environmentalism and Palestinian solidarity. read now...

Coverage of the recent Federal Budget proves standards of economic reporting are at an all-time low. read now...

Stigma around schizophrenia makes secrecy feel necessary, adding another layer of anguish. read now...

What premium is Australia paying today, and for a capability that arrives – if it arrives – in the 2040s? read now...

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When aspiration pathways are blocked, the political rhetoric of aspiration becomes detached from economic reality. read now...

Former U.S. Army Ranger Sean Griobhtha’s ‘X Rubicon’ is a powerful and deeply unsettling account of war, trauma and the hidden human cost of covert military operations. read now...

Widely criticised as little more than a propaganda piece, ‘Melania’ is now streaming on Amazon Prime. read now...

As legal immunity expands and institutional safeguards erode, America edges ever closer to a presidency untethered from accountability, writes. read now...

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Treasury’s reliance on flawed market benchmarks is undermining long-term public investment. read now...

As cost-of-living pressures mount, critics argue Australia’s inflation response is worsening the pain rather than solving the problem. read now...

Bit by bit, Trump’s efforts to undermine, steal or even cancel the mid-term elections are taking shape. read now...

The legal clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI exposes the profit-driven scramble shaping the future of artificial intelligence. read now...

Anti-war protesters in the UK saw multiple demonstrations taking place across the country last weekend demanding an end to the latest U.S. aggression in the Middle East. read now...

A vanished raffle car, conflicting public statements and mounting questions over a collapsed charity have placed a Gold Coast councillor at the centre of a growing controversy. read now...

Muslim men who stopped to pray five times a day in the red dust of the Australian interior did the work that made modern Australia possible. read now...

The Budget focuses on maintaining increasingly complex digital systems, managing cyber risk and stabilising ageing infrastructure. read now...

Australian boardrooms are spending more on AI than ever before, yet the return on that spend keeps slipping further out of reach. read now...

An examination of immigration, demographics, media influence and electoral systems asks whether Australia’s political landscape is becoming less representative as diversity grows. read now...

Labor’s Budget priorities are under fire as conservation groups warn biodiversity funding cuts, weakened protections and fast-tracked approvals could deepen Australia’s environmental crisis. read now...

A field report from the Esperance-Karijini-Broome corridor, where small operators, single-lane highways and an inconsistent infrastructure layer set the daily terms of trade, as Mariam Suleman reports. read now...

The Coalition’s plan to index income tax scales to inflation may sound fair on paper, but critics argue it risks fuelling inflation, blowing out the budget and tying the RBA in knots. read now...

An alternative economic model could tackle inflation through fiscal policy instead of interest rate hikes, avoiding the unemployment and financial pain often used to curb prices. read now...

The Government’s reluctance to confront mounting visa backlogs and migration pressures risks compounding Australia’s immigration challenges while leaving politically difficult decisions for another day. read now...

Australia’s housing crisis is often blamed on tax incentives like negative gearing and the CGT discount, but the deeper roots may lie in decades of financial deregulation. read now...

Last week’s courageous budget could portend an era of substantial achievement. read now...

A swimming pool can look simple when the water is clear and the surface is free of leaves. That impression is misleading. read now...

A practical guide for Australian SMEs building an insurance strategy across regulatory, cyber, and supply-chain disruption, covering broker selection and cover priorities. read now...

It is the most ambitious Federal Budget the nation has seen for a couple of decades and the strain of committing to action showed on the faces of Labor’s front bench last night. read now...

Some of my best photos were hard won — like this one I took of Danny Kaye when he came to Australia to conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. read now...

To achieve any semblance of equality in Australia, we urgently need greater ambition, creative ideas and new energy for First Nations building. read now...

The 9th of May is a beautiful time of the year, with breezy, high-skied blue days around Australia. It is also a date that resonates in Australian civic history. read now...

Craig Hill, the man who brought the Trump Tower crumbling down, explains how he – along with 280,000 other Aussies – trounced a tyrant. read now...

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Hyperpartisan accounts of curated, centred lived experience omit key facts at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. read now...

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In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, search specialists play a pivotal role. These professionals are the architects behind online visibility, ensuring that businesses stand out in a crowded marketplace. read now...

After One Nation's David Farley recently won the Farrer by-election, Senator Pauline Hanson took centre stage with a speech that seemed vaguely familiar. read now...

Most construction disputes don’t start on-site. They start in the contract. read now...

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump is brushing aside the 'furious' cost of war. read now...

A tradie can justify a $45,000 ute in five minutes, then spend five weeks guessing which finance structure will cost the least after tax, GST and interest. read now...

America’s assault on Iran has exposed the limits of U.S. military power, drained its defences and strengthened the very forces Washington sought to weaken. read now...

The voters of Farrer have jumped from the dirty dishwater of the LNP into the seething sewer of Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON). read now...

As market concentration grows and reform stalls, Australia’s outdated competition system is driving up prices and dragging down productivity. read now...

Hair loss touches more Australians than most realise. Around half of men notice meaningful thinning by their fifties, while women experience their own patterns of shedding linked to genetics, hormones, ageing or stress. read now...

The working poor are not a statistic at the margins of the Australian economy. They are load-bearing. read now...

There is a quiet revolution unfolding over the battlefields of Ukraine — and it doesn’t roar like artillery or thunder like tanks. read now...

As global instability and fuel insecurity deepen under Trump’s escalating conflict, Australia’s vast wind and solar resources are emerging as the nation’s most reliable path to energy resilience. read now...

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When citizens fear speaking while politicians speak freely, then freedom has become a one-way street. read now...

From Iranian footballers to Hong Kong dissidents, recent cases show that protection in Australia often begins in civic and community networks before it reaches the state. read now...