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3 judges, 2 decades and 1 bad wig later, Tony Mokbel walks free

Drug baron Tony Mokbel pictured leaving Melbourne Magistrates' Court with criminal defence barr ...  
Mayhem is the point: Trump's politics of terror

What looks like chaos on America’s streets is not a breakdown of authority, but the deliberate ...  
Slow violence in the Kimberley’s forgotten prison

Year after year, Broome Prison remains overcrowded, degrading and overwhelmingly Indigenous — ...  
Australia’s whistleblower laws protect the state, not the truth

From Bernard Collaery to David McBride, the evidence shows Australia’s whistleblower framework ...  
Antisemitism or accountability? Drawing the line without erasing free speech

As Australia tightens hate-speech laws, a flawed definition of antisemitism risks being weaponised ...  
Trump’s MAGA militia strategy and the erosion of restraint

As the midterms approach, Trump’s politics of force are reshaping both foreign policy and ...  
Trump unbound: An assault on democracy at home and abroad

Donald Trump’s second presidency has stripped away the pretence, revealing how fragile democracy ...  
The end of sovereign immunity: America’s new doctrine of capture

By seizing a sitting head of state, Washington has replaced international law with a doctrine of ...  
Privacy failures driving psychological harm and suicide

Australia’s long-standing failure to protect privacy is contributing to psychological harm and ...  
Antisemitism, extremism and the case for a cautious Royal Commission

Independent Australia cautiously welcomes the Government's announcement this week of a Royal Comm ...  
Gaza and antisemitism: What a Royal Commission can’t fix

Will the Royal Commission into Antisemitism end up with a full explanation of that social problem ...  
Bondi Royal Commission risks expanding power instead of delivering justice

Marketed as accountability, the Bondi Royal Commission risks entrenching executive power, racia ...  
Royal commission push after Bondi killings driven by politics, not evidence

The demand for a royal commission into the Bondi killings reflects media and political pressure ...  
With crime decreasing, Australia has far too many citizens in gaol

The latest prisoner numbers raise several important questions.  
Royal Commission on Bondi attack raises questions of independence

As political pressure mounts, the royal commission into the Bondi attack is already facing scru ...  
Trump’s Venezuela abduction shatters claims of Western moral authority

By kidnapping a foreign leader, the Trump Administration has stripped the West of any credibility ...  
Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

As Trump's world domination plans go into overdrive, managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the ...  
Tony Abbott’s hypocrisy on immigration policy: What his time in office shows

Tony Abbott’s recent immigration rhetoric sits uneasily alongside the policies and outcomes of ...  
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