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• 8 March 2023 | Albanese Government restarts water buybacks to save environment
• 22 January 2023 | La Niña could become the norm for Australia
• 19 December 2022 | Big data: How we are being watched — all the time
• 16 December 2022 | Reforming sexual consent laws faces formidable challenges
• 3 December 2022 | Gough Whitlam's enthusiasm for reform has left a lasting legacy
• 12 November 2022 | Lessons Australia can learn from UN's 'greenwashing' report
• 9 November 2022 | NT Government willing to wipe out wetlands for gas mining
• 28 October 2022 | Reliance on outdated maps putting councils backward in flood planning
• 21 October 2022 | Britain's Conservative Party is collapsing on itself
• 16 October 2022 | Gender order judged wise: Women fill the High Court bench
• 17 September 2022 | Eleven ways to prevent another COVID catastrophe
• 30 July 2022 | How Q&A can lead us out of the culture wars it helped fuel
• 20 July 2022 | Damning environment report reveals Australia's countdown to extinction
• 8 July 2022 | Dreyfus drops charges against Bernard Collaery
• 5 July 2022 | Avoiding the next NSW flood crisis
• 18 August 2021 | Australia must offer permanent protection to Afghan refugees now
• 28 July 2021 | Public policy failure of Coalition's vaccine rollout
• 28 May 2021 | Thirteen years on from 'Sorry' and we need to do more for our Indigenous children
• 1 April 2021 | Empathy training isn't enough for people like Andrew Laming
• 27 March 2021 | Oprah royal interview pushes momentum for Australian republic
• 25 March 2021 | Morrison Government lacks a coherent national vision
• 27 February 2021 | BHP adds to Rio Tinto's destruction of the Pilbara cultural landscape
• 17 February 2021 | Sexual misconduct against political staffers must stop
• 5 February 2021 | Christian Lobby continues hate campaign against religious and gender freedom
• 31 January 2021 | Australia no longer in top ten global anti-corruption ranking
• 18 January 2021 | Australia still falling behind in marine area protection
• 24 November 2020 | War crimes report: Changing the culture and facing the true cost of war
• 26 September 2020 | Federal Government fast-tracks grants to Foxtel
• 16 July 2020 | Palace letters add to the history of the Whitlam Dismissal
• 3 July 2020 | After JobSeeker ends, we need a new unemployment system
• 10 September 2019 | Angus Taylor spins gas 'solution' as emissions continue to rise
• 2 August 2019 | DHS uses personal details to recruit patients into medical study
• 30 July 2019 | The AFP: A question of independence and integrity
• 13 July 2019 | The consequences of fighting fake news
• 4 July 2019 | Distance to global fossil fuel target is increasing
• 16 January 2019 | Murray-Darling fish kill: Is the Government listening?
• 19 December 2018 | Morrison Government's MYEFO raid on inventions, ideas and talent
• 26 September 2018 | Will the #AgedCareRC help us value the elderly?
• 6 August 2018 | Coles lets environmental nightmare out of the (plastic) bag
• 27 July 2018 | Nine-Fairfax merger a disaster for Australian journalism and democracy
• 3 July 2018 | Is it Witness K and Collaery that should be charged over East Timor spy scandal?
• 15 June 2018 | STUDY: Left-wing Aussies are anxious about expressing political views online
• 11 June 2018 | Are Porter's 'urgent' spying and foreign interference laws even needed?
• 1 June 2018 | Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics
• 23 May 2018 | The Liberals have a serious women problem — it's time they got over it
• 20 April 2018 | Australia can't rely on 'deterrence' to excuse its immoral refugee policies
• 18 April 2018 | Sexism and the city
• 5 April 2018 | Abbott and Kelly's pro-coal 'Monash Forum' unlikely to burn brightly or long
• 16 March 2018 | South Australian election matches State's future — difficult to predict
• 14 March 2018 | Will Labor's proposed tax changes make the system fairer?
• 9 March 2018 | Attention RWNJs: Bill Shorten is NOT a socialist
• 23 February 2018 | No solid theoretical basis or research to support cutting company tax rate
• 25 January 2018 | A drip not a trickle: Tax cuts produce little extra corporate investment
• 20 January 2018 | The demons of Van Dieman's Land: Britain's genocide in Tasmania
• 16 December 2017 | Royal Commission recommends sweeping reforms for Catholic Church
• 7 December 2017 | In whose interests? Sam Dastyari and the shadowy politics of public intelligence
• 1 December 2017 | Why the big four banks asked for a royal commission
• 29 November 2017 | Labor blocks 'religious freedom' same-sex marriage bill amendments
• 18 October 2017 | Sexual harassment and rape culture: Why women don't say anything
• 12 October 2017 | How Aussie activists began a nuclear disarmament campaign and won a Nobel Peace Prize
• 7 October 2017 | The national facial recognition database will not make us 'safer'
• 3 October 2017 | Europe watches nervously as Spain represses Catalonia’s independence
• 7 September 2017 | The Liberal Party's 30 years of tussles over climate change policy
• 2 September 2017 | Marriage equality: 'Yes' vote rises but 12.4% still undecided
• 12 August 2017 | North Korea crisis: Malcolm Turnbull goes 'all the way' with Donald J
• 27 July 2017 | Australian Constitution's wide net catches unknowing MPs in s44(i) trap
• 6 July 2017 | After Medicare breach we should be wary about moving health records online
• 4 July 2017 | The Great Barrier Reef, the Precautionary Principle and $56 billion
• 29 June 2017 | Liberals on the edge: If Turnbull loses to Abbott, Party will fall
• 10 June 2017 | The Finkel Review at a glance
• 25 May 2017 | Dreams of Australia joining a rekindled 'Anglosphere' are backward delusions
• 20 April 2017 | Australian values? Government uses citizenship as mechanism for exclusion
• 28 March 2017 | Turnbull Government blackmails FWC into penalty rates cut
• 21 March 2017 | Coal versus Musk: No contest
• 20 February 2017 | Section 18C should stay: Australians reject 'right to be bigots'
• 21 December 2016 | MYEFO and playing favourites with infrastructure
• 19 December 2016 | 'Open government' promise still undelivered
• 5 December 2016 | Parliament 2016: The year in which Turnbull nearly lost government
• 15 November 2016 | U.S. deal is good news in never-ending refugee story
• 1 November 2016 | What possible justification is there for Turnbull's new refugee ban? 
• 23 October 2016 | Smashed avocado, housing and mental health
• 12 October 2016 | Social media abuse is a sign that the feminist project is still far from finished
• 6 October 2016 | New laws on bank malpractice useless in light of ASIC's spectacular inaction
• 22 September 2016 | Will the Coalition's new ‘investment approach’ help the most disadvantaged?
• 20 September 2016 | Yet another TV show privileges Andrew Bolt's views — this time on the ABC
• 15 September 2016 | Breaking news: Marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)!
• 13 September 2016 | 'Soft power' and China's influence in Australia
• 6 September 2016 | Australia is conspicuous by its inaction as U.S. and China ratify Paris Agreement
• 4 September 2016 | Australia's biggest emitters say Coalition's Direct Action is ineffective
• 23 August 2016 | Daily Telegraph: If you're going to ridicule research do your homework
• 19 August 2016 | The electorate has spoken but Turnbull's CEDA speech shows he hasn't listened
• 6 August 2016 | Rio: Olympic flame grows dim as thousands protest over corruption
• 28 July 2016 | Abuse in youth detention centres not restricted to the Northern Territory
• 23 July 2016 | Queenslanders get real time political donations: No excuses, Mr Turnbull!
• 20 July 2016 | Energy or environment: Which will Frydenberg back?
• 15 July 2016 | Turnbull needs to tackle multinational tax avoidance to boost revenue
• 10 July 2016 | A weakened Coalition with Hanson's politics on the table
• 8 July 2016 | Cheerleaders of the press like Murdoch don't win elections like they used to
• 25 June 2016 | How Big Mining's donations influence the political agenda in Canberra
• 8 June 2016 | The Liberal Party, the IPA and Australia's agenda
• 31 May 2016 | Political party donations: Time for real reform, say public
• 27 May 2016 | Murray Goulburn milk saga has roots in deregulation
• 20 May 2016 | Fact-check: Company tax cuts not knight in shining armour to save the economy
• 11 May 2016 | What the Reserve Bank memo really says about negative gearing
• 8 May 2016 | Shorten avoids the traps and plays to Labor’s strengths in budget reply
• 28 April 2016 | Five Federal Budget myths that refuse to die
• 19 April 2016 | Why does Australia even need new submarines?
• 17 April 2016 | Royal commission into banking debate reveals the sell-off of Australian democracy
• 12 April 2016 | A banking royal commission is essential — and should be paid for by the banks
• 8 April 2016 | The idea that conservatives are better money managers simply doesn't stack up
• 7 April 2016 | Online retailers yet to harness big social data
• 27 March 2016 | How to inoculate people against Donald Trump’s fact bending claims
• 24 March 2016 | The boats may have ‘stopped’, but more refugees are stuck in limbo in Indonesia
• 22 March 2016 | Fear and loathing reigns in Safe Schools and same sex marriage debates
• 15 March 2016 | Turnbull's media reform bill all about helping media moguls — not the public
• 8 March 2016 | Density with intensity: Changing negative gearing will revive dead suburbs
• 2 March 2016 | What changes to Australia's media ownership laws are being proposed?
• 25 February 2016 | Australia found to have breached the rights of David Hicks
• 24 February 2016 | Explainer: How will the new changes to Senate voting affect your vote?
• 16 February 2016 | The truth about negative gearing
• 28 January 2016 | Why we shouldn’t be surprised that tennis is implicated in match-fixing
• 20 January 2016 | Gentrification is dividing Australian schools
• 12 January 2016 | Militant suffragettes: Morally justified, or just terrorists?
• 11 January 2016 | Corporate-style regulation of unions won’t defeat corruption
• 21 December 2015 | There’s no precedent for stopping the Carmichael coal mine — but we should
• 23 November 2015 | What next — an inquiry into infrasound from trees, waves and air conditioners?
• 21 November 2015 | How Islamic law can take on ISIS
• 12 November 2015 | What The Dismissal's legacy means for an Australian republican push
• 29 October 2015 | Australia must double or triple current efforts on climate change according to new report
• 16 October 2015 | Adani approval: the experts respond (not that Greg Hunt is listening)
• 14 October 2015 | Coalition's radicalisation focus won't stop terrorism
• 12 October 2015 | If the TPP was really about trade it would include China
• 7 October 2015 | Radicalising Karen: The Right's ridiculous conflation of terrorism and environmentalism
• 30 September 2015 | Julian Burnside: What sort of country are we?
• 14 September 2015 | #CoalisAmazing? A brief history of mining industry spin
• 9 September 2015 | The China FTA: Seeing past the smoke and mirrors
• 7 September 2015 | After two years, even supporters of the Abbott Government despair
• 31 August 2015 | Hockey's call for income tax cuts to fuel growth is a flawed argument
• 25 August 2015 | Tame media lets adversarial Abbott play race card in Chinese trade deal debate
• 19 August 2015 | Vigilante lawfare: The Abbott gang versus Australian environmentalists
• 17 August 2015 | Abbott bill relies on a legal fiction to revoke citizenship for dual nationals
• 11 August 2015 | How the cynical politics of fear trumped the politics of courage
• 10 August 2015 | Time for Abbott Government and ASIC to get serious about Australian banksters
• 8 August 2015 | Bishop resignation won't end impact on Coalition
• 4 August 2015 | Why we can’t trust journalists to explain finance
• 3 August 2015 | An economy is not a society: The unmaking of the Australian working class
• 28 July 2015 | Coalition cultivates confusion: An emissions trading scheme is NOT a tax
• 23 July 2015 | Six simple tax reforms plagued by politics
• 21 July 2015 | Australia needs a truly independent Speaker
• 15 July 2015 | Coal vs Country: How Greg Hunt could have canned Shenhua to save the Plains
• 2 July 2015 | Shorten's trust deficit is limiting Labor's opportunities
• 1 July 2015 | Grexit and the impacts on the 'average' Greek
• 23 June 2015 | More wind research useless if experts are told what to find
• 17 June 2015 | Boats secrecy leads to bad policy without democratic accountability
• 9 June 2015 | Abbott Government misleads public over citizenship
• 29 May 2015 | Meet the Australian wildlife most threatened by climate change
• 26 May 2015 | Stop medical bullying — for patients' sakes
• 20 May 2015 | McIntyre vs SBS will test workers' right to express opinions bosses don't like
• 12 May 2015 | Scott Morrison's childcare package: Unfair, flawed and impractical
• 8 May 2015 | Revolutionary Tesla battery heralds end of fossil fuels
• 5 May 2015 | Chan and Sukumaran more casualties in our futile war on drugs
• 30 April 2015 | Anzacs behaving badly: Scott McIntyre & contested history
• 20 April 2015 | Politically motivated inquiry takes aim at green charities — but not the IPA
• 17 April 2015 | East West Link's miserable planning process
• 15 April 2015 | $4.1m refugee telemovie shows a Government lost at sea
• 13 April 2015 | No ice epidemic — but plenty of political fear-mongering
• 11 April 2015 | Stopping corporate tax avoidance in a house of smoke and mirrors
• 4 April 2015 | Abbott Government writing reform cheques it's unlikely to cash
• 31 March 2015 | Lacking an agenda, the Abbott Government's time is running out
• 25 March 2015 | Metadata laws provide inadequate protections
• 23 March 2015 | Power privatisation will damage NSW budget bottom line
• 21 March 2015 | A roadmap for the 2015 Budget: increasing tax revenue!
• 6 March 2015 | Hockey's Intergenerational Report ignores biggest intergenerational issue
• 4 February 2015 | Abbott's impossible promises come back to bite him
• 21 January 2015 | Here we Joh again! The truth about bikie laws and crime in Queensland
• 11 December 2014 | Mark Scott's 'me too' strategy puts ABC on track for redundancy
• 8 December 2014 | Howard's Gift: Australia now needs higher taxes, not spending cuts
• 4 December 2014 | Ocean heat drives world to new warming record
• 1 December 2014 | Mark Scott's ABC cuts reveal divide: Sydney-Melbourne vs the bush
• 29 October 2014 | Embedded journalism and MSM war propaganda
• 27 October 2014 | The court of Prince Tony's flatterers and cronies
• 13 October 2014 | Five reasons terror laws wreck media freedom and democracy
• 3 September 2014 | The 'conservatives' are the radicals now
• 1 September 2014 | Coalition's appointments part of a bigger pattern
• 27 August 2014 | Team Abbott's ideological war
• 21 August 2014 | IPA/News Corp's bogus claims of ABC anti-fossil fuel bias
• 19 August 2014 | Deficit size fetishism: Why Joe Hockey needs to learn economics
• 11 August 2014 | The Abbott Government's red tape trap
• 1 August 2014 | Christmas Island child detainees: Australia's cruelty and inhumanity
• 21 July 2014 | News Corp, Newspoll and unpopular Abbott
• 13 June 2014 | 'Class war' claims can't make Budget fair
• 29 May 2014 | Hockey’s defamation suit shows need for wider free speech debate
• 29 April 2014 | Thomas Piketty: It's the inequality, stupid
• 28 April 2014 | Could Clive Palmer cause a Constitutional crisis?
• 15 April 2014 | Brand Labor's lack of persuasion
• 24 March 2014 | Identifying APPEA's CSG lies and exaggerations
• 13 March 2014 | The fallacy of fiscal austerity and the myth of crowding out
• 5 March 2014 | NHMRC review finds no evidence for wind turbine syndrome
• 4 March 2014 | 'Personal responsibility' won't solve Australia's obesity crisis
• 20 February 2014 | Why did Australia breach Indonesia's borders?
• 30 January 2014 | Abbott's war on science turns to wind
• 5 January 2014 | BoM: 2013 was Australia's hottest year on record
• 19 December 2013 | MYEFO: Joe Hockey's liberating austerity
• 10 April 2013 | Tricky Turnbull's myopically modest NBN plan
• 4 April 2013 | Climate Commission: Extreme weather threatens Australia