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AUKUS serves America at Australia’s expense

AUKUS is costing Australia billions while serving U.S. strategic interests, undermining soverei ...  
Pauline Hanson’s ABC paywall threatens our shared culture

Pauline Hanson’s plan to put the ABC behind a paywall threatens decades of shared Australian ...  
Top 40 datasets showing quality of life in Australia steadily rising

While newsrooms provoke fear and anxiety about concocted “crises”, life is better than ever ...  
Australia-China university collaborations under the microscope

The Australian Government has terminated some joint university projects with Chinese universities ...  
AUKUS — controversial, secretive but given a bipartisan blank cheque

Five years ago, Scott Morrison announced the $368 billion AUKUS pact that fundamentally changed ...  
Happy 30th Anniversary Pauline Hanson —  thanks for nothing

30 years ago this week, Pauline Hanson was attacking Asians; this week, she's attacking war vete ...  
Australia accelerates integration into U.S. war machine

Australia’s accelerating military integration with the United States is drawing the nation ...  
International report says Australia’s arms trade not transparent

Australia’s two major parties want Australia to be a top-tier arms exporter, but the current ...  
Government’s anti-racism response exposes a glaring double standard

Australia’s response to discrimination reveals stark inequalities in how antisemitism, Islamo ...  
Australia’s algorithm opt-out is a fight for freedom of choice

Australia’s proposed algorithm opt-out would give social media users greater control over what ...  
Australia’s political leaders are failing democracy

Australia’s political leaders continue to put self-interest and political expediency ahead of ...  
Simon Gordon scandal exposes systemic failure at every level

It is alleged that this powerful male doctor irreparably harmed potentially over 1,000 (usually) ...  
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EDITORIAL: Simon Gordon scandal exposes systemic failure at every level

"The culture of senior and powerful doctors protecting other senior and powerful doctors has to e ...  
9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon

As the 25th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks nears, Frances Letters reflects on the cond ...  
Libs haemorrhaging votes to One Nation as Overton window shifts

Australia's Overton window has widened – but Pauline Hanson is only partly to blame.  
Carbon offsets threaten Great Koala National Park promise

The Great Koala National Park remains hostage to a controversial carbon offset scheme despite ...  
Former IDF soldiers participated in Sydney Marathon under 'peace delegation' guise

Israeli soldiers accused of atrocities were welcomed into the Sydney Marathon under the extraor ...  
Coalition and One Nation's cheaper smokes crime-fighting con

The Coalition and One Nation's plan to slash tobacco taxes won't stop organised crime but will ...  

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