Complacency enables regime change
To counter the rise of tyranny, the West must overcome its belief that democracy cannot lead to wrongdoing and instability.
The private school sweetheart deal should end in 2029
Private schools are campaigning to extend a $1.2 billion fund available only to their sector, even as public schools remain below their agreed funding standard.
The power of dreams – thanks to Freud
Neuroscience has challenged Freud's ideas about dreams. Nevertheless, Freud was the one who made us realise dreams can be meaningful.
BRICS: the eulogy for western dominance?
The world's economic centre of gravity is moving from the Atlantic toward Asia. This reflects the rise of China and India and the dynamism of the BRICS.
Thirty years after Dolly, cloning is not what we expected
Thirty years after Dolly the sheep, cloning has not delivered armies of identical animals or resurrected mammoths – but it has transformed disease research, conservation and our understanding of cells.
The World Cup is showing countries who they really are
The composition of teams in the World Cup suggests that modern national identity cannot be easily disentangled from colonialism, empire and migration.
Getting Murdoched: climategate
This edited extract of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson examines Murdoch's destructive anti-climate change campaign.
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The case for spiritual sociology
Modern society can measure inequality, power and behaviour in extraordinary detail, but struggles to explain despair, loneliness, hope and the human need for meaning.
Environment: UN says 2050 before greenhouse gas emissions fall
Despite all the talk, emissions will be almost 50 per cent higher in 2050, speeding up global warming and bringing tipping points closer. The US’s coercive neocolonialism trades medicines for minerals. And Australian mammals’ eyes, ears and noses help them enjoy the night.
Iran conflict frozen between ceasefire and a long war
The US has the military strength; Iran the political resolve. This points to more precarious truces and tit-for-tat strikes in coming months.
Scandals and drift are closing in on Thailand’s prime minister
Thailand’s government commands a comfortable parliamentary majority, but corruption scandals, weak policy direction and a lack of tangible results are rapidly eroding its legitimacy.
Trump's threats are no substitute for diplomacy
Trump has always had poor impulse control but we are moving into a new phase with F-bombs, real bombs and threats to entire civilisations becoming daily occurrences.
The unfairness we've learned to walk past
Allowing homelessness to continue is a choice. Ending it must become one too.
Living longer but not necessarily well
The 2026 report on Australia’s health shows our life expectancy remains one of the highest in the world but the last decade of life is marred by poorer health.
The handshake that never holds
Pakistani and Afghan negotiators have to come to the table with a Plan B to break the endless cycle of bombings and retaliatory strikes.
What the Socceroos taught us about belonging
The World Cup has shown Australia that our national identity is about diversity not uniformity.
Thailand needs a long-term strategy for the next energy shock
The Iran war has exposed Thailand’s reliance on Middle Eastern energy and fertiliser imports and points to the need for a long-term economic strategy if it is to become a regional hub for green industries and advanced technologies.
Gen Z is not ageing into the old Australia
Why Australia’s Gen Z is unlike any voting cohort before it and why every institution built for the old Australia is about to find out.
Who would want an ally like Israel?
Looking back from 2026 to 1967 reveals the extent to which Israel will go to serve its own interests, even when this means harming its ally.
The productivity obsession has a measurement problem
The focus on productivity as the key to economic growth ignores the fact that we can't directly observe productivity. We need better ways to measure improvements in overall living standards.
A nature-based food revolution
Forget AI. The technological advance that will save the most human lives is being led by two million Indian farmers, who are pioneering advanced natural food production in a revolutionary movement that is spreading almost by the hour.
Entitled schools are taking on entitled parents: what about the students?
Governments have fostered a sense of entitlement in private schools. They should be enforcing the principle of putting students first.
Israel's war against Gaza
Media coverage of the war in Gaza since October 2023 has spread a series of lies propagated by Israel and the United States. This publication presents information, analysis, clarification, views and perspectives largely unavailable in mainstream media in Australia and elsewhere.
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Submarine penalty
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Set student numbers within a population plan
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