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Kos Samaras

Age usually changes what matters. Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years rewarded for grievance Aged care is turning the family home into an entry fee The One Nation vote is a map of government neglect

John Menadue

Labor should not take Green preferences for granted They’ll inherit the climate crisis. Shouldn’t 16- and 17-year-olds have a vote? Australia preaches the rules-based order. Its record tells another story

Glenda Korporaal

Tech Bros: Making a fortune, finding fame and falling out Storming the ramparts of legacy media Warren Buffett is stepping aside. Can his investment wisdom survive the AI age?

Adrian Rosenfeldt

Bob Dylan’s lesson for older men: life still asks something of you The Congo, cobalt and our limited attention The rational fool, the cultural dope, the stranger and the voting booth

Peter Briggs

AUKUS assurances collide with the reality of Britain’s submarine fleet Why Britain cannot deliver SSN-AUKUS on schedule AUKUS is a $368 billion gamble Australia does not need to take

Paul Keating

Disturbing admissions from US Republican Congressman Government CGT changes structurally sound Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party’s moral decline

Catriona Jackson

Three leaders, one reminder: moral courage is not dead in politics – Message from the Editor There is no ‘debate’: them is us – Message from the Editor Enough. Australia is a successful nation of migrants – Message from the Editor

Michael Keating

Inflation and interest rates up. Who's to blame? Want affordable housing? Build up, not out The Intergenerational Report’s rosy outlook hides some hard budget choices

Jack Waterford

Greens can hope to pick up the mess Labor and Albanese have made Not the place for a cathedral of sport Small signs of independence

Stewart Sweeney

Labor’s Left has won the party. So what happened to the Left? Don Dunstan’s cookbook and the lost ambition of social democracy Australia needs a population policy built around capability

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