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Privacy failures driving psychological harm and suicide

Australia’s long-standing failure to protect privacy is contributing to psychological harm and ...  
Facts from the coalface confirm poverty is easing

As the 2025 report card on Australia’s economy is filled in, the good news is outweighing the ...  
Living through Victoria’s new climate reality

A Victorian bushfire shows climate change is no longer abstract.  
Silent night: A Christmas without insects means they are disappearing

The insects are disappearing — and with them the ecosystems that sustain life.  
How racism is shaping Australia’s migration debate

Australia’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t caused by migrants and scapegoating is making it ...  
Why regulation alone won’t fix early childhood quality and safety

Tightening rules may reduce risk, but only a truly professionalised workforce can deliver the ...  
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 ...  
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EDITORIAL: Antisemitism, extremism and the case for a cautious Royal Commission

Independent Australia cautiously welcomes a Royal Commission into antisemitism in Australia.  
Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah

If the decision to remove a Palestinian author from Adelaide Writers' Week was intended to refl ...  
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 ...  
How Iran’s regime weaponised religion

Behind the language of morality and law, Iran’s theocracy has spent decades protecting abusers ...  
Getting to the bottom of inflation in Australia — and it’s not a problem

A closer look at the data suggests Australia’s recent inflation scare was less an economic ...  
Gaza to Bondi: How appeasement shaped Albanese’s response to antisemitism

A pattern of appeasement, not moral clarity, has shaped the Albanese Government’s response to ...  
Pole-to-Pole with Donald Trump: An Australian guide to the new flat Earth

As Donald Trump redraws the world from ice cap to ice cap, Australia risks discovering that being ...  
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 ...  
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