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Democracy must be measured by more than elections

China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by ...  
One Nation's jittery demagoguery leads immigration policy

Bidding wars and nonsense targets are the focus of immigration policy in Canberra, with the ...  
Press freedom under attack from algorithms and cruel clickbait questions

Press freedom is under attack from algorithms and journalists trying to wound rather than infor ...  
Triple Zero: Band-Aid solutions won't deliver structural reform

Commonwealth considering establishing statutory authority to take responsibility for the Emergency ...  
Democracy and putting power back in public hands

David Higginbottom examines who really holds power in Australia and how democratic institutions ...  
Trump dinner reject Tate's foul-mouthed tirade a Towering charade

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate fails to produce evidence of his Mar-a-Lago dinner after being brutally ...  
The Labor paradox: Too progressive, not progressive enough

Labor governments face criticism from both sides, but progress requires compromise, consensus and ...  
Pauline Hanson’s ABC paywall threatens our shared culture

Pauline Hanson’s plan to put the ABC behind a paywall threatens decades of shared Australian ...  
Australia’s political leaders are failing democracy

Australia’s political leaders continue to put self-interest and political expediency ahead of ...  
Meet Claude: ABC’s new regional cadet journalist

ABC is rolling out AI-written news stories, but only in its regional newsrooms.  
Four-year federal terms: a referendum that is positive, logical and winnable

A Referendum on four-year terms is likely to succeed and should benefit Australian politics ...  
Labor's transformation on net overseas migration

The Albanese Government's plan reassures the public and requires the Minister to proactively repo ...  
A Muslim vision of what Australia might be by 2050

When our children and grandchildren look around Australia in 2050, I hope they will not ask ...  
Mobile roaming must be part of Australia’s communications resilience

Australia needs a layered communications system in which different technologies and providers can ...  
Far-Right secretive political group Advance appears at election inquiry

Far-Right Advance "stacked" with Liberal Party operatives and backed by billionaires.  
Barnaby Joyce discovers the political power of pinkwashing

Sexuality does not confer political virtue any more than ethnicity or faith does.  
The Tampa crisis: 25 years on

It was winter 2001 when the Tampa hullabaloo blew up: the watershed moment when decent agreement ...  
NBN’s success vindicates original vision — but the job's not done

NBN Co's FY26 results demonstrate the transition from copper to fibre is producing the bene ...  
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