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Digital sovereignty and the danger of the off switch

Australia's future should not depend on the goodwill of any single foreign government or comp ...  
Pauline Hanson imports a monoculture war

Pauline Hanson's latest overseas tour exposes the irony of a movement that rails against fore ...  
Count Binface crashes Nigel Farage's by-election gamble

Nigel Farage's by-election gamble is upended by Count Binface, exposing the theatre and cont ...  
From Crimea to AUKUS: How distant wars reshape Australia

From colonial forts to nuclear submarines, Australia's response to distant conflicts reveals a re ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: Trump attacks the enemy within

Donald Trump’s strategy to maintain a stranglehold on American democracy, Dr Jeff McMullen ...  
The Epstein Files and Australia's elite underground 'pedocracy'

Recent developments, including the Epstein Files, prompt renewed scrutiny of long-standing alle ...  
AUKUS Public Inquiry lays bare a pact built on false promises

The AUKUS Public Inquiry is exposing the strategic, economic and sovereignty costs of Australia ...  
The Starlink challenge: Australia's next hyperscaler problem

Starlink's long-term ambitions appear to extend well beyond telecommunications access.  
America at 250 faces a new struggle over who really holds power

As America marks 250 years since independence, debates over democracy, oligarchy and executive ...  
Killings continue to surge under Trump’s destructive rule

While Donald Trump is making headlines losing his war against Iran and his personal grift of ...  
Students and academics sold out for debt-trap degree factories

Australia created a skills shortage coexisting with graduate underemployment by quietly decoupling ...  
Centre v Right populism: Same grievances, different answers

Can Community Strong Australia deliver policies that address the economic conditions driving ...  
Australia's wealth belongs to its people, not foreign corporations

Despite its vast natural wealth, too many Australians are missing out on its benefits.  
It’s not climate change – it's climate reversal

We didn’t just change the climate; we put it in reverse — and we are compressing that change ...  
Britain's push for proportional representation leaves Australia behind

Britain's growing push for proportional representation is shining a spotlight on Australia's ow ...  
AUKUS: Australia's $368 billion boondoggle

Scott Morrison’s economy-crippling AUKUS boondoggle cost $368 billion for eight nuclear subma ...  
Australia’s social media ban offers lessons for the Netherlands

Dutch researchers use Australia's social media ban as a case study to find ways to make digi ...  
How the Right radicalised its own voters

Mainstream conservative parties helped create the conditions for the Far-Right's rise by norm ...  
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