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8 Dec 2025 | FIFA invents a “Peace Prize” to flatter Donald Trump, proving once again that football’s ...

8 Dec 2025 | Last week’s national accounts confirm Australia is back on a sound economic path.

6 Dec 2025 | Thousands of Australians who retired to France now find themselves trapped in bureaucratic limbo ...

6 Dec 2025 | The inequality is starkest in criminal justice — the poor are still disproportionately incarc ...

6 Dec 2025 | Since Labor’s victory, the threat of right‑wing populism has not gone away — it has grown ...

5 Dec 2025 | If the Middle East conflict is a race war between Arabs and Jews, does it mean supporters of ...

5 Dec 2025 | Major supermarkets and fuel retailers in bankless towns may qualify for exemptions from the ...

5 Dec 2025 | We may have had a Royal Commission into its systemic failures and voted in a new Federal Labor ...

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4 Dec 2025 | We may have had a Royal Commission into its systemic failures and voted in a new Federal Labor ...

4 Dec 2025 | The public education system has been unravelling for more than a decade — a class action may be ...

4 Dec 2025 | Whatever we may think about our moral responsibility to other nations, the effects of inequality ...

4 Dec 2025 | Amid renewed debate over black bloc activism, Omar Hassan replies to Tom Tanuki’s critique of ...

3 Dec 2025 | A leaked proposal for staff and service cuts has ignited outrage, exposing how Victoria’s ...

3 Dec 2025 | Palestinians and human rights advocates have slammed the UN’s new Gaza resolution as a neo-co ...

2 Dec 2025 | Donald Trump’s return to power isn’t a political revival, it’s the inevitable consequence of ...

1 Dec 2025 | Sussan Ley’s so-called “values test” exposes the Coalition’s desperation to court the ...

1 Dec 2025 | In a cruel policy move, the Trump Administration cancelled funding for World AIDS Day commemora ...

1 Dec 2025 | Recent outcomes on poverty alleviation raise concerns about the merit of Australia’s peak ...

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