Pearls and Irritations
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