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Misplaced negativity blocks social progress

Addressing Australia’s urgent reforms requires more confidence and less division.  
Perth’s Invasion Day bomb didn’t shock the nation

A white supremacist brought a nail bomb to Invasion Day, but the response from the nation was not ...  
The braggart soldier returns: Trump on the grand stage of ego

Donald Trump is framed as a modern Pyrgopolynices, a braggart whose performative narcissism has ...  
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 ...  
JEFF McMULLEN: Marie Bashir and Rob Hirst’s rhythm of kindness

The first female Governor of NSW and Midnight Oil’s songwriting drummer had some wonderful ...  
EXCLUSIVE: GC CEO secretively pushes through Tate pods development twice rejected by Council

A development financially benefitting Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate and twice rejected by elected ...  
EXCLUSIVE SUMMARY: Tom Tate and his Baker's pods collapse GC democracy

Despite the Gold Coast City Council twice voting to reject a development proposal endorsed by his ...  
Media framing is shaping our opinions before we realise it

Our opinions feel personal, but they have often been shaped by repetition and framing long before ...  
Naming the real problem with our climate

Our climate is collapsing because our comfort depends on systems that exploit people and nature ...  
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EXCLUSIVE: GC CEO secretly pushes through Tate development twice rejected by Council

A development twice rejected by elected councillors was quietly resurrected through bureaucracy ...  
When America raises the bill, Australia pays the price

As Washington demands unprecedented military spending from its allies, Australia faces a stark ...  
The regional visa dilemma facing Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson's biggest problem is that regional Australia depends on the migration she oppo ...  
Slow violence in the Kimberley’s forgotten prison

Year after year, Broome Prison remains overcrowded, degrading and overwhelmingly Indigenous — ...  
Australia’s social cohesion troubles can be resolved by addressing inequality

Australia’s fraying social fabric isn’t being torn apart by culture wars or extremism alone ...  
Australia’s growing tolerance for racism a threat to democracy

As racism shifts from the fringe to the mainstream, Australia’s social cohesion and democratic ...  
Scott Morrison’s holy war: Preaching politics in Israel

In Jerusalem, Scott Morrison blended faith, fear and foreign policy into a sermon that excused ...  
Australia’s whistleblower laws protect the state, not the truth

From Bernard Collaery to David McBride, the evidence shows Australia’s whistleblower framework ...  
Efforts to house all Australians make slow but steady progress

The latest official data confirms that poverty and homelessness are gradually easing.  
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