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How Australia exploited the Iranian women’s football team

Australia granted asylum to a handful of Iranian footballers while simultaneously tightening ...  
Regulatory capture: How lobbyists and banks shape Australia’s rules

Powerful industries have quietly captured Australia’s regulators, leaving consumers and the ...  
Thomas Mann’s warning for an age of war and censorship

As global tensions rise, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Thomas Mann reminds us how easily war ...  
From Starlink to the state: When platform monopolies become political power

As digital infrastructure concentrates in a handful of tech giants, private platform monopolies ...  
Pressure mounts on Australia to distance itself from Iran war

Even as the war with Iran escalates and threatens global oil supplies and economic stability ...  
Beware the right-wing race to the MAGA bottom

Australia’s conservative parties are sliding into a Trump-style contest to see who can harness ...  
The hard truth about whistleblowing in Australia

Australia praises whistleblowers in principle, but the legal and institutional reality shows those ...  
Farrer by-election a test for One Nation immigration policy

A tight by-election race in Farrer is set to spotlight One Nation’s call for negative net ...  
How Australia supplies weapons to Israel

The Australian Government has consistently maintained that it does "not provide weapons to Isra ...  
Stranded in Dubai: Missile alerts and a desperate race to get home

An Australian family holidaying in Dubai recounts the surreal experience of missile alerts, flight ...  
Stop the War protests gathering steam in the UK

Anti-war protesters in the UK saw multiple demonstrations taking place across the country last ...  
No longer true that the rich keep getting richer as the poor get poorer

Recent data confirms current policies are gradually reversing Australia’s chronic inequality.  
Legend, John Landy: The athlete who 'went the extra mile'

The late John Landy, agricultural scientist and Governor of Victoria, was also considered to have ...  
Rejecting pregnancy and birth: The case against procreation

Women’s oppression begins with reproduction — an assertion that, in 2026, feels more provoc ...  
Labor’s budget test will be to confront inequality or let populism grow

Economic inequality is reshaping Australian politics. The May Budget will decide whether Labor ...  
How modern protective technology is changing security and public safety

Public safety has always depended on a combination of preparedness, training and effective tool ...  
Why more Australians are rethinking their money from the ground up

The cost of living conversation in Australia has shifted.  
How Australians are turning their homes into spaces for celebration and recovery

There's a quiet shift happening across Australia. More people are choosing to create meaningful ...  
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