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Displacement and death in Gaza City as Israeli depravity continues

Israel leaps over red lines in attack on Qatari capital Doha

Trump: Russia, India are ‘lost to deepest, darkest China’. Guess who did this, Donald?

Murdoch resolves succession drama – a win for Lachlan, a loss for public interest journalism

Our future prosperity is bright. We’ve hidden an ace up our sleeve

A good captain can stop this Senator’s social cohesion ‘Titanic’

Climate change risk to our coastal cities

Indonesia’s protests hit a brick wall of elite unity

Israel and the Palestinians: Just one piece of the American plan

The suppression of the Arab voice and the genocide in Gaza

Xi targets Prabowo and ditches Trump

The price of genocide: How US funding sustains an unravelling Israeli economy

Courts brace for next wave of ‘sovereign citizens’

Albanese’s sliding doors moment on climate

The central role of government support for the Arts in defining our national culture

Why we’d be mugs to cut the company tax rate

Xi’s parade tips the diplomatic balance sheet in Asia

Savage American justice

Vale Adrian Buzo (1948–2025)

The ABC is inventing China’s war history

In a Trumpian world, Australia needs friends like India

The Liberal Party and Israel

Albo is breaking the moral contract with voters

Thailand has another new prime minister and an opening for progress. But will anything change?

Who is a terrorist?

Intergenerational equity and tax reform

The State of the ‘State of Palestine’

‘Like us’: Australia’s uneasy dance with immigration

The desecration of Camp Sovereignty has not been reflected in the criminal charges

From public good to corporate enterprise: The financialisation of universities (Part II)

NATO in Asia-Pacific: Dragging us into a fight we can’t win

Message from the editor

Seven hundred days of genocide: Israel attempts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and will fail

Trump and the post-American world

Yes, freedom of information laws need updating, but not like the government is proposing

The speech we are still waiting for Anthony Albanese to deliver

New NAPLAN results demand better deal for public schools

From public good to corporate enterprise: The financialisation of universities (Part I)

The headlines Australians read – and what we’re told to feel

China hysteria masks Australian insecurity

The good, the bad and the stupid

Greta Thunberg ‘disgusted’ by global silence on Gaza genocide

Environment: Australian Government misleading people about our emissions reductions

Health workers in the US are demanding the resignation of Robert Kennedy Jr

When Australia defied US nuclear plans. Part 2: Sovereignty at stake

People dumping in the Pacific

Palestinian memory: Between ink and blood

‘Let her voice echo’: Hind Rajab film receives record-breaking standing ovation at Venice Festival

Southeast Asia pragmatic on China’s rise

What’s behind the rioting in Indonesia? And will the much-loathed political elite back down?

Kathleen Folbigg and the failures of the justice system

Speaking terrorism Part 2: Evading reality, atrocities and self-image

Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin

Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin

SSN AUKUS – Heading for a quagmire (Part II)

When Australia defied US nuclear plans. Part 1: B-52s over Australia in the 1980s

The real death toll in Gaza

Neo-Nazis and racist rallies: why it’s important the Australian media call them for what they are

Miners want to go green, then we hear News Corp’s ‘China!’ scream

Speaking terrorism Part 1: The things we forget

Give Asia a break

‘Greatest corruption in presidential history’: Trump family reaps US$5b more in crypto profits

Gaza’s Christians refuse to abandon churches before Israeli attack

The shrinking US Navy submarine force – Implications for AUKUS Pillar 1 (Part 1)

As Florida ends all childhood vaccine mandates, doctors fear preventable diseases will ‘come roaring back’

Ambassador for war crimes denial

The betrayal of Palestinian journalists

Global power shift on show at China summit

Messiness in spookdom: Australia’s Iran Contra deal

Military experts warn of climate wars

How to stop Israel from starving Gaza

If you really want some subs – try this

Canberra and Gaza

Australia should halt plan to deport refugees, migrants to Nauru

Sprinting to stand still: Still no progress in Australia’s energy transition

Where have all the flowers gone?

A tale of two lists: How geopolitics shaped the attendance of China’s parade

Israel, hasbara, antisemitism and Iran

Indonesian riots update

What goes around, comes around

Climate-first foreign policy essential for Australia and regional security – top security leaders

Beijing invited me to their special celebration. Here’s why I’m happy to go

Ishiba’s China policy increasingly contested after electoral setback

‘Act of bastardry’: Queensland LNP Government kills another giant wind project

Reining in vice-chancellor and executive pay: Restoring governance in public universities

For the sins of the father

Avoid Bali and the rest of Indonesia

Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one

When spying is subcontracted to gangsters

Marking September 2: Lest we forget

The one big reform not discussed at Labor’s roundtable

The media’s Israeli atrocity treadmill

UNGA: Move September meeting to Geneva to allow Palestinians to participate

RSL tries to tackle its troubles

Western civilisation is not worth saving

Reining in the consultant culture in Australia’s public universities

Blinded by ‘blood libels’, Netanyahu won’t praise the West’s tough new measures on Iran

Message from the editor

The next pandemic is ‘an epidemiological certainty’

Asia must learn from SEATO and build its own NATO

The gates of Gaza

How the Fourth Estate failed journalists

A Rohingya mother’s ordeal of rape, loss and survival

Immobilising confirmation of atrocities in Gaza

Amnesty condemns abduction and arbitrary arrest of Pakistan’s top triathlete, Shahrez Khan

Reforming university governance: Restoring accountability and the public mission