Australia

23 Jan 2021 | Next Tuesday is Australia Day, a vexed day on the calendar.

16 Jan 2021 | David Muir argues the Federal Government must put an end to the ad hoc process, or lack of proc ...

16 Dec 2020 | The term “offshore processing” suggests something industrial, mechanistic.

29 Nov 2020 | Australian citizens stranded overseas due to COVID-19 and flight caps, feel abandoned by the ...

25 Nov 2020 | Our national anthem is back on the playlist and, as always, for the wrong reasons.

27 Sep 2020 | COVID-19 has brought into focus the century-old rivalry between the Commonwealth Government and ...

23 Sep 2020 | There are mining companies and then there are mining companies.

20 Sep 2020 | Australia should persist in republicanism because it is our best chance to improve the lives of ...

7 Sep 2020 | One of the less obvious dangers of Australia's recession is the role of vested interests in its ...

1 Sep 2020 | Grassroots calls to move Australia Day to Wattle Day, mean our national day will no longer to be ...

26 Aug 2020 | There is nothing very exceptional about American exceptionalism.

2 Aug 2020 | The republic proposal must include substantive protections for the disadvantaged, writes Dr Robert ...

12 Jul 2020 | When I was a child reading about World War II in Europe I believed that some of its less savoury ...

5 Jul 2020 | As social movements build in opposition to authoritarian populism around the world, we have to ...

7 Jun 2020 | A quarter-century after Paul Keating proposed an Australian republic, David Muir suggests it has ...

31 May 2020 | News Corp’s closing of its community and regional papers, with few remaining and others onli ...

24 May 2020 | Australia has avoided the pains of political populism, so far. If that were to change in post- ...

9 May 2020 | The response from our government during the pandemic has raised questions as to how to combat ...

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