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Scott Morrison's Australia Day farce

Morrison’s attempt to upgrade 26 January's national significance reflects its appropriation by ...  
The ANZACS: Ransacked by the Right

The ANZAC myth has been constructed to serve conservative interests, writes Bruce Haigh.  
Paving the way for independence: Citizen’s Day instead of Queen's Birthday

Is it time we cut the apron strings and replaced the outdated Queen's Birthday occasion with a ...  
Harper Nielsen's call to take a ‘stand' on the national anthem

Harper Nielsen one small action may have taken a stand that will change the very song Australia ...  
Yes we can... rewrite the Australian Constitution

Australia's Constitution is archaic, irrelevant and in dire need of a more modern update, writes ...  
Review: 'This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future'

Romaine Rutnam reviews Dr Benjamin T. Jones' new book calling for a Republic of Australia based on ...  
Commonwealth Employment Service: The pitfalls of privatisation

Darren Rexter examines the ways in which the privatisation of the Commonwealth Employment Service ...  
Advance Australia fairly (Part 3)

Tom Orren concludes his three-part series on how the laws of economics could help us create a fair ...  
Advance Australia fairly (Part 2)

Tom Orren continues his three-part series on how the laws of economics could help us create a fair ...  
Advance Australia fairly (Part 1)

Tom Orren begins his three-part series into how the laws of economics could help us create a fair ...  
On Invasion Day, I heard Australia screaming

Calls for Tarneen Onus-Williams to resign from the Koori Youth Council are confected outrage ...  
Trains, strikes and the right to break unjust laws

The weekend's Invasion Day protests are symbolic of a growing undercurrent of dissatisfaction  ...  
Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing

Changing the date will not resolve anything without a Treaty, recognition of sovereignty and ...  
Can you pass the Straya citizenship test?

Minister for Immigration and Border Security Peter Dutton has unwittingly released to IA a copy of ...  
The Uluru walkout: Constitutional recognition, Treaty and structural change

Several Indigenous delegates walked out of a Constitutional recognition summit yesterday. Natalie ...  
Dreams of Australia joining a rekindled 'Anglosphere' are backward delusions

Australia ingratiating itself into a post-Brexit, British-instigated Anglosphere would be a futile ...  
The vilification of Yassmin Abdel-Magied: Anzac as apologia and religion

So great has the cult of Anzac Day become, any dissenting voices are now attacked, condemned and ...  
Australia Day / Invasion Day debate: #ChangeTheDate — but not right now

For those who enjoy celebrating Australia Day on the date of Indigenous dispossession, Natalie ...  

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