Australia
Angus Taylor's culture wars won't save the Coalition

Angus Taylor harping on about wokeness and culture war politics could drive more voters to One ...  
Democracy begins before the ballot box

Australia’s elections give voters real choice, but democracy remains incomplete when political ...  
David Shoebridge brings a fighting edge to the Greens

David Shoebridge’s rise to the Greens leadership offers a chance to challenge Labor from the ...  
Australia’s demographic future demands a rethink

Australia must confront falling fertility, an ageing population and growing skills shortages with ...  
Organised misogyny radicalisation becoming national security issue

Today's boys are being fed entitlement and grievance — women are cast as the enemy who took some ...  
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 ...  

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