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How online distrust is rewriting reality

From six fingers to body doubles, AI is fuelling a new era where distrust spreads faster than ...  
AUKUS ties nuclear anchor around Australia's neck

Three years ago, Anthony Albanese signed Australia up to quite possibly the worst deal in our ...  
The cost of loyalty: Australia’s silence in America’s war

Australia’s continued loyalty to the U.S. alliance is framed as strategic necessity, but incr ...  
Australia’s looming fuel crisis: How Trump’s Middle East war could hit home

A disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could leave Australia facing fuel shortages within weeks ...  
The Iran war is Australia's margin call

Operation Epic Fury is exposing the true cost of alliance dependence, energy fragility, and ...  
JEFF McMULLEN: Fancy thrones, paper tigers and dirty bombs

Donald Trump boasted of victory on Day One of the new Iran War. Jeff McMullen warns that the ...  
Albo is a bumbling misogynist

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult.” But when women speak truth to power, “dif ...  
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EDITORIAL: Jeff McMullen — Fancy thrones, paper tigers and dirty bombs

While Donald Trump has boasted of victory on Day One of the new War in Iran, Jeff McMullen warns ...  
How Australia exploited the Iranian women’s football team

Australia granted asylum to a handful of Iranian footballers while simultaneously tightening ...  
Regulatory capture: How lobbyists and banks shape Australia’s rules

Powerful industries have quietly captured Australia’s regulators, leaving consumers and the ...  
Thomas Mann’s warning for an age of war and censorship

As global tensions rise, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Thomas Mann reminds us how easily war ...  
From Starlink to the state: When platform monopolies become political power

As digital infrastructure concentrates in a handful of tech giants, private platform monopolies ...  
Pressure mounts on Australia to distance itself from Iran war

Even as the war with Iran escalates and threatens global oil supplies and economic stability ...  
Beware the right-wing race to the MAGA bottom

Australia’s conservative parties are sliding into a Trump-style contest to see who can harness ...  
The hard truth about whistleblowing in Australia

Australia praises whistleblowers in principle, but the legal and institutional reality shows those ...  
Farrer by-election a test for One Nation immigration policy

A tight by-election race in Farrer is set to spotlight One Nation’s call for negative net ...  
How Australia supplies weapons to Israel

The Australian Government has consistently maintained that it does "not provide weapons to Isra ...  
Stranded in Dubai: Missile alerts and a desperate race to get home

An Australian family holidaying in Dubai recounts the surreal experience of missile alerts, flight ...  
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