Australia taxes and spends less than most comparable developed countries, while essential services remain underfunded.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was illegal, but Australia’s response has also exposed a deeper inconsistency in how it applies ...
One Nation wants to restart native forest logging in Victoria, but decades of losses, shrinking timber supply and a $402 ...
French students are protesting against an education system already divided by class. Parcoursup risks reinforcing those ...
In the first of our pieces leading up to Israel’s election on Tuesday, Gideon Levy returns to a 1997 photograph of Israeli and Palestinian lawmakers together – and to a political world that now seems ...
AUKUS is sold as a sovereign Australian defence capability. But its strategic logic and dependence on US systems raise a harder question: whose homeland is it really designed to defend?
From apartheid South Africa to Rwanda, the ICC and Gaza, Navi Pillay’s career has been built on the belief that international law must protect people from abuses of state power.
As diplomacy resumes, a proposed settlement would combine Ukrainian neutrality and EU membership with an armistice line, limits on NATO enlargement and a new European security framework.
The attack on Helen Haines has sharpened concern about political violence. Regulating platforms and policing threats matter, ...
Framing the Pacific as a permanent contest with China overstates the symmetry between the two powers, underestimates Pacific agency and risks producing the very outcome Australia fears.
As the World Bank promotes AI’s potential to create better jobs, the experience of gig workers shows why algorithmic management must come with enforceable rights and protections. The World Bank has ...
The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance to half a million people in Gaza as funding falls sharply, with ...