Pearls and Irritations
How to navigate the Support at Home maze
Don’t take it from us – here’s what great Australians think of P&I
Federal Court dispatches Sofronoff empty-handed
Journalist files defence in anti-Semitism test case
The Colby Review, AUKUS and lopsided commitments
Frankie Goes to Bethlehem: myth, music and the power of love
A West Bank farmer left for dead – and a system that looks the other way
What didn’t happen in 2025
Why the Vatican’s latest word on women deacons has angered reformers
One fire, one-sided view: how the ABC’s fire ‘analysis’ became narrative
UN report: acting on climate now would make the world richer, not poorer
Israeli reporters unite against government moves to curb press freedom
The real winners of Australia’s under-16s social media ban
The war that broke Israel’s global legitimacy
After the ATAR: keeping perspective and finding your next step
2025 in Review: Bullies and sycophants, cowardice on high, courage from below
Why Pearls and Irritations matters – Eugene Doyle
Beyond the under-16 ban: online safety must be built in, not bolted on
Judge says law still failing to see “deeper truth” of dispossession
Beijing warns foreign media in Hong Kong over crossing ‘red lines’
Blood, silence and history: questioning Indonesia’s 1965 narrative
AI needs governance, not a ‘plan for a plan’
From partnership to pressure: why India–US ties have frayed
Deleting climate science: the Trump EPA rewrites the causes of warming
Sanctions kill like wars – and children pay the price
2025 in Review: immigration policy turns back toward dog whistles and drift
Australia’s social media ban puts free speech on the chopping block
Jobs for mates, by design: the government rejects its own integrity review
Too many states, too little nation: time to fix the federation
Governments are hiding data and threatening democracy
Nationalists play to the crowd in Japan–China relations
Ellen Hansen: At 75, UNHCR is needed more than ever – but its funding is being cut
Victoria government unfussed by Grand Prix debt
Israel and police polarise Sydney Mardi Gras
Trump’s Ukraine peace deal would leave the country vulnerable to future Russian attacks
Australia’s cost-of-living crisis has a housing problem
Pearls and irritations is growing and changing – and needs your support
Patronage over principle: why Katie Gallagher’s ‘flexibility’ betrays good government
Writing as resistance in a year that refused to slow down
Australia’s social media age ban is days away. Here is what it really means
‘This will be my dream project’: How we got Frank Gehry to design the UTS ‘paper bag’
Make NDIS billions go further for people with psychosocial disability
Gaza and the unravelling of the post-war world
The problem of biblical “Israel” in 2025
The pecking order: how class blindness governs Australian schools
Marles’ Defence overhaul raises an awkward question: why AUKUS at all?
Message from the Editor
The 2026 budget is Labor’s real reform test
Friends and frenemies: Australia’s China policy is stuck in a four-tier mindset
The quiet collapse of ‘plant-based’ fashion materials
Australia’s trust deficit is a failure of governance
Australia’s human rights report has been quietly buried
Ceding the future to China
‘Bazball ’has revolutionised English cricket – Australia should be nervous
Bazball has revolutionised English cricket – Australia should be nervous
Bill Gates knows the climate and poverty facts but misses the politics
History, memory, and pain: Fifty years after the Indonesian invasion of East Timor
When machines make the art, what’s left for human creativity?
China’s challenge is explaining why it succeeded
P&I provides a moral compass, keeps hope alive and spurs on action
Hong Kong high-rise renovations a murky, greedy industry – Asian Media Report
Israel’s NGO rules are shutting out humanitarian aid from Gaza
Australia’s school bureaucracy is growing faster than classrooms
Refugees aren’t politically progressive by default – and policy needs to catch up
After dominance: Japan enters a post-hegemony political era
Fear versus facts: why migrants strengthen Australia
Words or action? Dreyfus and human rights at home
When foreign policy becomes domestic theatre
How media coverage helps normalise the far right
Trump’s drug war on Venezuela reeks of hypocrisy
Is the focus on NAPLAN’s ‘top’ schools a good idea?
A Boyer Lecture that misunderstands Australia’s defence history
Celebrating war crimes is a moral failure, not cultural pride
Corruption prosecutions are choking Indonesia’s reform ambition
Book Review: Selling Israel: propaganda, history and contested narratives
Australia’s immigration ‘debate’ is rhetoric, not policy
The origin of Labor versus Green tensions
How the Albanese government kept “jobs for mates” alive
Selling out our sovereignty
With a sneaky tweak, the government has made welfare recipients guilty until proven innocent
Malcolm Fraser: a decent man committed to an independent Australia
America’s justification for attacking Venezuela: Part 2: fact and fantasy in the drug wars
From coal to solar: a new manufacturing bet in the Hunter
Book review: Things that concentrate the mind, by Peter Baume
A practical answer to Australia’s AI ethics vacuum
America’s justification for attacking Venezuela: Part 1 – a calculated insult to us all
Brave ACT shows restorative justice for sex offenders can work
Expert independent evidence-based assessment
Coalition’s Australian values test is the ultimate dog whistle
The politics of forgetting: Australia, Gaza and moral silence
Global campaign amplifies call for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Barghouti
Afghanistan silence is a dangerous illusion
UK–US drug deal risks turning the NHS into a casualty of Trump trade politics
What charges does Benjamin Netanyahu face, and what’s at stake if he is granted a pardon?
What the ICJ’s climate law decision means for Australia
Charting Trump’s decline
Rising student visa refusals clash with plans to boost enrolments
Why our government protects gambling apps but bans TikTok
We’re not about to go full Trump no matter what the culture warriors say
Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping bid raises more questions than answers
AI and the news: how it helps, fails, and why that matters
Tough talk, weak evidence: the myth of a youth crime crisis
Selective humanity: Gaza’s donkeys or its children?
Australia’s selective justice on international law is indefensible
With Trump’s support, Netanyahu requests pardon for corruption charges
Australia’s strategic choices in a fragmenting global order
Message from the Editor
Corruption isn’t just a moral failure – it’s built into our political system
‘Genocide is not over,’ Amnesty leader says as Israel keeps bombing Gaza
Trump wants Australian data on migrant crime
Trade and tariffs: how reciprocity turned into retaliation
How soybeans became a fault line in China’s food security
Uncertainties trail behind Japanese PM’s strong start
How one death in Papua should shame a republic into action
The great failure of the property industry
New architecture, old assumptions: Australia and the China question
Faith that costs something: the Pope’s challenge to comfortable Christianity
Environment: It’s official – we aren’t winning the climate fight
Led Zeppelin, my band that never ‘made it’, and the lost art of failure
Ita Buttrose reflects on her life in media – well, some of it
Indigenous businesses are driving jobs and economic success
A long-overdue update to Australia’s broken environment laws
How the social media ban could harm African diaspora youth
Gaza’s true death toll could be 126,000 or even higher
Hong Kong tower fire – contractor for fire-hit Tai Po project has record of safety offences
Why false beliefs feel safer than the truth
A Chinese visit, a security panic, and a silent media
Silencing Starlink over Taiwan would be a massive military challenge
Why Australia should build AI to amplify human capability
You can’t regulate your way to quality early childhood education
Why Labor can’t be bold without confronting tax reform
Why Medicare needs joint federal–state hospitals
How ‘deep links’ journalism fuels pointless China panic
Trump is melting down: Is this the beginning of the end?
ASIO’s $12.5 billion espionage bill doesn’t add up
Trying teenagers as adults won’t fix youth crime
What does Labor actually stand for in the Albanese era?
Why Australia needs a political party for the under-40s
Welcome to BunkerWorld – home of the rich and fearful
When evidence stops leading policy-making
The inflation myth propping up private school privilege
Independent media is essential – and we urgently need your help
The Dismissal at 50: Albanese condemns the past but avoids real reform
Gaza’s economy has collapsed beyond recognition
Non-aligned and successful: Indonesia’s lesson for Australian foreign policy
How Trump tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle
After Gaza, the next target is Iran
Australia’s Christmas double standards on Palestine
Chip wars: how the Dutch government nearly crashed the global car industry
Nature doesn’t have an offset account
Why the trauma community must break its silence on Gaza
Why Australia’s pro-globalisation consensus endures
Without peer in Australian media – Geoff Raby
Western Australia is rich, but it’s not the economic powerhouse it claims to be
Ukraine and Europe’s weakness exposed as US and Russia again negotiate behind Kyiv’s back
Why multicultural aged care is the key to meeting Australia’s ageing challenge
Conservatism, denial and the climate crisis: why short-term thinking is holding us back
Making First Nations prisoners visible in Labor politics
Self-interest is now the main driver of Britain’s Asia policy
Why Indonesia’s new criminal rules matter
Our politicians continue to fail us on immigration policy
Losing the democracy sausage vibe
Will there be Liberals around to take power in 2034?
Axed AG tells how Labor really changes the Constitution
Where will the aged care workforce come from?
The ceasefire that isn’t: 400 violations in 40 days
AI in journalism and democracy: can we rely on it?
Massacres, memory and the Memorial: facing our most deadly war
The wisdom of the elders, the greed of the rich
Senate committee on disinformation should look into the Liberals’ energy policy: It is full of it
Juvenile crime is a very complex issue
Message from the Editor
What science tells us about Earth’s changing climate
US foreign policy and Sudan: hypocrisy, incoherence and self-interest
Will AI kill the middle class?
David Lindenmayer, Bruce Chapman and John Mitchell: A rare win-win for climate, farming and biodiversity – if policymakers act
Net Zero and the metaphysics of anxiety in Australia
The China shift: Australia’s universities in an age of suspicion
Middle power moves: South Korea and the future of global governance
Innovation talk, austerity walk: Australia’s failing science policy
The UN embraces colonialism: the Security Council and the US Gaza plan
Working with PM Fraser – parting words – Part 5 – Malcolm Fraser
No COP for Australia. No tears from me
Henry Reynolds’ bold, new book takes a top-end view of Australian history
Pitch perfect: the case for backing busking
A calculated plot, an ambush, a coup
Working with PM Fraser – burying White Australia – Part 4
US wants Seoul’s subs to counter China – Asian Media Report
Never underestimate a shearer’s cook
Trump’s latest Epstein gambit
Root canals and conspiracies
Two Trump peace plans
BBC and ABC targeted by conservative critics for the wrong reasons
The war on Sudan: the choice is ours
Only a republic can reverse executive power creep
Working with PM Fraser – a country divided – Part 3
My one hope – to meet my wife and daughters again
Democracies good, China bad – and history not required
Assessing the Liberal Party’s policy-making capacity
Australia’s science crisis reveals a century of structural failure
Denouement: trapped between empires – Part 6
UN Members complicit in genocide
Australia’s toxic algal bloom has killed 87,000 animals – and summer’s coming
The shadow of the Tampa
US alliance holding us back
Working with PM Fraser – the business view – Part 2
Nurturing the next generation of voices
Five reasons Trump’s economy stinks and 10 things the Dems should do about It
Fatal free lunch
Investigative journalists are the heroes of our time
UN approval of Gaza ‘Stabilisation Force’ slammed as ‘Denial of Palestinian self-determination’
Overworked, overburdened, and burning out: Australian teachers’ workloads among the worst in OECD
A search for purpose, vision and identity in Australian universities
Australians are markedly more worried about the US, but still wary about China
From Whitlam to AUKUS: Sovereignty silenced
Working with PM Fraser – the changeover – Part 1
Coalition politicians who can’t accept the threat of climate change should resign
Book review: Turbulence – Australian foreign policy in the Trump era
Breaking free of media group-think is a scary, lonely journey. I know. I was forced to do it
Migration myths
It’s as if their lives do not matter
Pope Leo and transparency in child sexual abuse cases
Stop pretending punishment works
Daniel Ghezelbash: The Refugee Convention is under threat, but it is not the problem
US Democrats cave once more
Gaza winter catastrophe repeating in tents that resist neither wind nor rain
Emergency powers and tariffs: The US Supreme Court’s test of the President’s authority
Richo’s grave should be extra deep
Sudan cannot be an invisible tragedy
50,000 march to celebrate death of fossil fuel industry at COP30
‘My Viceroy’ – Part 5
‘Good neighbours are essential’: the history behind the Indonesia-Australia security treaty
Nuclear testing threatens global stability
Beyond machete bans and new laws – tackling youth violence
The last Boomer
How did Australian universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years?
Message from the editor
Israeli settler attack on West Bank mosque draws international condemnation
Israeli settler attack on West Bank mosque draws international condemnation
‘A national humiliation’: Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking
Mines over water: Melbourne’s largest and most important water supply catchment at risk
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
If we don’t control the AI industry, it could end up controlling us, warn two chilling new books
Forecasting the impact of Sino-Indian relations on changing world order
Banning nuclear weapons will require love to triumph over fear
Violence in prisons isn’t a surprise: It’s inevitable
Trump’s ploy at the UN is American imperialism masquerading as a peace process
Australia’s reluctance to rest its fast bowlers could prove disastrous during the Ashes
Environment: Paris 2015 generated hope, but not enough climate action
From populism to progress: The Netherlands’ historic election
‘Oh, the fog lying like a blanket over this sad town’: The Mushroom Tapes sees the humanity in an inhumane story
Keating on the malevolence and brutality of The Dismissal
This Russian victory really is one for the little guy
The integrity of our media matters – please support Pearls and Irritations
Trick or treaty? Don’t know, can’t say
Gaza woman blinded in Israeli strike opens bakery to subsist and hope
China-phobia in Australia is endangering the country’s security
Defending the BBC
The ‘othered’ genocide: Sudan’s suffering and the world’s indifference
Recovering moral imagination in a time of war
Tackling vehicle emissions – the next big climate task
The Whitlam agenda – the one thing we left out
Indigenous political candidates face less voter bias than parties might think: new research
China’s new climate targets show progress but lack ambition
The boy who cried antisemitism
As Australia welcomes its millionth refugee, its hardline border policies endure. We can lead by example again
Rising electricity prices have nothing to do with renewables
Seoul’s submarine ambitions – what do they mean for the region?
The Global South is drowning in climate debt
In Ukraine’s Pokrovsk, narratives have collided with brutal realities
Building a strategic movement for Gaza
‘Extraordinary and reprehensible circumstances’ – Part 4
Another RSL dope wants to draw us into a major war
ASIO’s Mike Burgess and a lust for the limelight
After 50 years, it’s time we called it a coup
Mamdani’s victory bought hope to Gaza
Burn it all down movements
Lame duck syndrome emerging
Only Arabic: When ‘multicultural’ media turns to racial profiling
Nuclear arms control and the Asia-Pacific
Stealing the breath of life
What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal
The Dismissal was a calculated conservative plot: Albanese
‘Spooky fiddling’: Preparing the ground – Part 3
The debate about net zero ignores the evidence
Our lopsided and unfair tax system
Looking back on Remembrance Day
The coming class war against Zohran Mamdani
Australia could be a world leader in tackling the climate emergency
Andrew Forrest says real zero is already the ‘winning business case’ in three key fossil fuel guzzling industries
‘Absolutely pathetic’: Senate Democrats denounced for caving to GOP in shutdown fight
The Second Dismissal
After Trump goes home
It’s Ley, or virtually certain Liberal self-immolation
Whitlam and the White House – Part 2
ACT director of Public Prosecutions responds
The black work of big oil
Environmental reforms: Opportunities that must not be missed
Graham Richardson’s environmental legacy
Australia-China policy: Guardrails, not walls
Bannon tells GOP: ‘Seize the institutions’ of government now or we’re ‘going to prison’ after 2028
‘Mr Whitlam’s style’ – Part I
Message from the editor
How the Dismissal ripples reached Beijing: Some personal recollections
‘Hawkish’ interpretations rise as US-China discourse gets lost in translation
Venezuela’s oil, US-led regime change and America’s gangster politics
Young people are increasingly being killed or injured on e-bikes. It’s time for governments to act
The defence myth
China planning ahead with 15th five-year plan
The Jury of Conscience finding on Gaza
Arms industry infiltrates National Press Club
The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans
To fix the economy, fix housing
Environment: The reformed EPBC Act – will the environment or business have priority?
Rewriting Soeharto’s story
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him
Murdoch, the Dismissal and my job in Japan
AUKUS and nuclear propulsion proliferation in the Asia-Pacific
US-China power shift: a G2 world – Asian Media Report
Revealed: Secret plans to introduce media censorship in Australia
How Zohran Mamdani’s ‘talent for listening’ spurred him to victory in the New York mayoral election
Computer still says no to Queenslanders wearing seatbelts
10,000+ Palestinians buried beneath Gaza rubble in ‘world’s largest mass grave’
Making them pay: Wielding influence in a world with no shame
Abandoning net zero: Farce, fantasy and falsehoods
Australia’s AI policy vacuum
The Prince and the Dismissal
OFFICIAL – Israel’s proposed death-penalty law is a war crime
‘We don’t do that in this country’: judge slams DPP
When in doubt, blame China (every News Corp headline needs a villain)
The press and the Dismissal – Part III
When truth can no longer be silenced
‘New York, this city belongs to you’: Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech
The new political economy of innovation: Why Australian policymakers need better tools
Focusing on the EPBC but dropping the ball on protection
Australia’s fragile multicultural consensus under threat
The Queen’s implausible denial
Trump turns the tables on Taiwan
‘Stabilising’ relations with China while differences widen
New York, 1975: New York, 2025
The press and the Dismissal – Part II
Lancet study shows more than 3m years of human life lost in Israeli assault on Gaza
Practical, equitable … cute? Labor’s free solar plan sparks call for more electrification and flexibility
Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the old order
Palestine’s future: Australians are outraged
Israel, lies and videotape
The second Dismissal – the loans affair and meetings with Kerr
In memoriam: the slow death of the Quad
Trump needs to stop weaponising hunger
The press and the Dismissal – Part I
Gen Z uprisings in the Global South
Zombie multilateralism: The undead world of APEC
It’s hard to be an involved dad
Moral inadequacy in national leadership
108 years since the Balfour Declaration – a promise written in ink, fulfilled in blood
What would Whitlam think of the Albanese Government?
Ambush and deceit
A tribute to Ali Kazak
AFP set to fight the devil among our children
A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia
The West’s double game on Gaza
The left wins the Irish presidential election in a landslide
A dangerous trifecta
When will immigration return to ‘normal’?
Australia can’t get away with genocide
Death by plastic
A worldwide anti-Israel movement
Bewildered in Trumpland
Message from the Editor
‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations are part of its strategy to keep waging war on Gaza
Will the US do to Venezuela’s Maduro what they did to Gaddafi?
It’s official! Accounting tricks denied public schools more than $2b in funding in 2023
The pearling past and the multicultural present: A story of connection and contribution
Clean your room
Fatal flaws: what regional Australians need to know about cash plan
Vaping: A disruptive innovation of smoking and rapidly replacing cigarettes
Prince Andrew’s ‘one peppercorn’ lease exposes how little is known about royal finances
Notice which genocides you are and are not allowed to oppose
Environment: Six strategies will simultaneously reduce emissions and help communities prepare
Taking from the young, giving to the old: How our tax system is letting us down
What Israel’s genocide has laid bare
Australian Palestinian farm in the occupied West Bank raided by Israeli settlers
Of social cohesion, belonging and the Australian flag
‘Forget subsidies’: Solar-battery hybrids can deliver ‘incredibly competitive’ power for big industry
Understanding Australia-China research mobility
Trump’s IMO veto exposes Australia’s maritime blind spot
Yes – he’s a dictator
The Australian moment is now
Protest wave challenges Indonesia’s authoritarian drift
Only through concerted long-term action can Australia shift the dial on housing
A collective voice for peace with justice
Gaza under siege: The continuation of Zionist demographic cleansing policies since the 19th century
South Korea, Canada and a middle-power submarine: Can Australia join?
The ABC and News Corp finally agree on something: China panic
The leader most capable of governing a future Palestinian state is languishing in an Israeli jail
Taiwan as an integral part of China: A historical, legal and geopolitical analysis
Open letter to David Marr on his interview with Chris Hedges
Game, set and match to the property industry – unless we change everything
Continuation in China’s five-year planning
Leo XIV: ‘Apostle of nonviolence’
COP30: Amazon rainforest destroyers
Gunboat hypocrisy in the Caribbean
The easy way or the hard way to the same result
Commonwealth administrative reform remains up the creek
Why the annexation of the West Bank matters to all of us
Getting away with murder
The (grossly misleading) Boyer lecture: Some things it forgot to mention
The morality we need, the asylum they seek
The fog of electricity price disinformation
ASEAN leads response to the threat of global economic disorder
Daydreaming about a legend: Review of Hawke PM: The making of a legend
Trump’s risky American economy
Whitlam dismissal secrets unearthed from the archives of the Canadian governor-general
As the home ownership dream fades, Australians may be open to a frank conversation about house prices
How UN betrayal of West Papua led to genocide, step by step
Why the Coalition can’t win without losing itself
The unvanquished will: Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
From illusion to real peace: Trump’s test in Gaza and Ukraine
Is the Great Barrier Reef collapsing?
Is Gen-Z the transformative generation?
Five charts that show how young Australians are getting screwed
The three core myths driving Israel’s war on Palestine
Raise the double standard high
Albo brings peace in our time
It’s no longer possible to be a Palestinian in the West Bank
Trump’s rare earths deal to counter China was a badly needed ‘Sputnik moment’
More defence spending, please – just not on the military
A circus and a summit: Trump and Xi visit Lee
Failure to cover: A week of collective omission by the Australian media
The future of Palestine – What must the Australian Government do?
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s latest book outlines the battles others face
As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted
Message from the editor
The key to social cohesion
The future of Palestine: What Australia must do
After OpenAI’s new ‘buy it in ChatGPT’ trial, how soon will AI be shopping online for us?
Australia’s role in the F-35 supply chain – what a tangled web we weave!
On No Kings day, a new America came to life
Boosting equity and safety for Australia’s children
If you write, you must also act: Reflections on the limitations of writing
The politics of democracy’s decline
New Australian national intelligence chief faces a people challenge
Bad debt ‘cockroaches’ signal new threats to the global economy
Realism and optimism on energy transition
Living with schizophrenia
‘Another unlawful extrajudicial killing’ as Trump expands boat-bombing spree to Pacific
Chris Sidoti on the International Court of Justice Gaza ruling
UN expert says all nations with ties to Israel ‘responsible in some measure’ for Gaza genocide
Modi cancels ASEAN trip, avoids meeting Trump – Asian Media Report
Misinformation was rife during the 2025 election. New research shows many people were unable to identify it
‘Pro-Trump propagandists’ take over Pentagon Press Corps after signing loyalty pledge
Indonesia’s security depends on educating the minds behind its machines
APEC: The curdled yoghurt of middle-power diplomacy
Trump, Xi and the ‘green paradox’: How China is building a climate-proof future
A Supreme Court showdown looms for Trump’s tariffs. Will it limit presidential power?
From proletariat to boxetariat: The new working class
Albo, Trump and China: No one likes a loser
After ICJ ruling, can UN relief agency UNRWA resume full Gaza operations?
China, US or us? Australia’s Upper Path in the global minerals race
Republicans ‘holding US economy hostage’ as nearly half of states face recession
Hundreds of prominent Jews and Israelis urge world powers to hold Israel accountable ‘for Gaza atrocities’
Australia has amongst the highest teacher shortages in the OECD
‘We just have to be defiant’: Irrepressible environmentalist Bob Brown reflects on a life of activism
The crumbling illusion: Why American public opinion on Israel is shifting
Sir Keir’s Maccabi outrage should get him the red card
Managing bullying or manufacturing shame? How neoliberal bureaucracy gets it wrong – again
Albanese and Rudd sold out freedom of the press this week
Dental health – time for a small, cost-effective revolution
Superannuation and the Canberra Press Gallery’s fantasies
Muted response to Trump’s appropriation of Christianity
Takaichi’s victory is a milestone on the road to a new party system in Japan
Islamophobia in Australian schools: What the Special Envoy’s report means for education
Super for teeth: Australia’s hidden dental crisis
To avert war, the West must shatter the mirror by which it views China
Women are missing from peace negotiations, from strategic decision-making
Greening the city: Community vegetable gardens create self-sufficiency
On Israel, Zionism and being Jewish
Chris Hedges’ Edward Said memorial lecture: ‘Requiem for Gaza’
Trump is pushing allies to buy US gas. It’s bad economics – and a catastrophe for the climate
The Pope, the media and the ‘normalisation’ of Trump
Readying the north for war
Trump CIA intervention in Venezuela risks another US war of choice, experts warn
At best, a respite for Gazans
China’s FDI, not the BRI, drives a global green transition
Indonesia-Australia economic partnership can power Indo-Pacific resilience
The problem of climate change denialism
After the bombing: The shape of life left by the genocide in Gaza
If you go down to the forests today, you’re in for a big surprise (mass deforestation)
Australia’s political parties are moving to their use-by date
The migration debate in Australia
Palestinian Mandela beaten unconscious. Our leaders yawned and looked away
‘We can do this’: Rio Tinto’s rapid switch to renewables shows path for quick exit from coal
The armistice of 1918 and the ‘ceasefire’ of 2025
China-US critical minerals war an opportunity for Australia to get smart
What a surprise spike in the unemployment rate means for interest rates and the economy
The onus is on Israel and its allies to end the genocide, not their victims
Gaza has a ceasefire, now Palestine needs self-determination
Message from the editor
As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?
Albanese meets Trump: A fly to a wanton schoolboy
Countering Trump, Pacific Islanders are leading on climate change
India’s American dream in tatters
An immodest proposal for an ideal source of strategic policy advice
APEC Summit opens a window for Korea – and for Australia
Rooftop solar takes its biggest bite yet out of coal generators’ lunch, as home battery rebates hit 89,000
Proposed housing development in Ipswich raises red flags
Was the gospel preached at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service?
Israel returns Palestinian prisoners’ bodies with ‘signs of torture, mutilation and execution’
Tipping, tipping, tipping… the dominoes fall
Stephen Stockwell 1975: The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal
Savvy politicians know how to ‘perform’ authenticity – the Jacinda Ardern doco offers a masterclass
Mr Albanese goes to Washington
DPP speaks out – budget crisis, blackmail or a balking of duty?
After decades of struggle, women in China are rewriting their future
One more betrayal of the Palestinians
Keating pays tribute to former NZ leader Jim Bolger
Harm reduction is ubiquitous and effective so why doesn’t Australia use it for tobacco?
Paper walls at Thailand’s border
South Korea has missed the alternative media train
From enmity to amity: Lessons from Cowra
Counting what doesn’t count: How consultants are hollowing out the university
Stark contrasts in health of returning hostages
Denial and amnesia: Is the global community ready to welcome Israel back?
Blame and frame: How Chinese Australians are counted when blamed, discounted when needed
Climate change causing oceans to decline at alarming rate
What’s constraining ‘frank and fearless’ advice?
Family violence and migrant women – a better way
Inspired by Gaza, Trump offers some hope on Thai-Cambodian border
Grieving for the US
Fortescue cuts hundreds of jobs in UK and Australia; EV motor making sent to China
War without end, peace without justice
‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills at least 9 in Gaza, says it will break truce aid terms
Australia’s ‘ISIS brides’ have returned. Governments can do better at handling this situation
A deserved defeat for Albanese on freedom of information
Reuniting families: reforming Australia’s approach
Gaza: The peace of the genocide alliance
Vanity, defence or just wanting to show off?
Remembering my Palestinian father
Four reasons Australia’s superannuation system isn’t the world’s best
De-Googling during a genocide: Reorienting digital life in the age of AI
Trump and climate change
Ceasefire sparks fresh calls for global media access to Gaza
Reclaiming care in the age of AI
Who are ‘Advance’ and what are they doing to our politics?
Embedding free, prior and informed consent in Australia’s legal framework
How the Coalition’s right read the opinion polls
Nobel Peace laureate calls for US bombing of her country
Shameful distortion that lies at the heart of US conservative politics
From Gaza, Palestinians have reasserted their agency on the world stage
From play to performance: Sport as the new Roman circus
Trump’s war for peace: How the Nobel became his battlefield
Israel’s response to the International Court of Justice
Takaichi’s victory will only accelerate the LDP’s decline
How Israel lost a war by not deserving to win
Disarming extremism in the algorithmic age
Keating welcomes changes to taxation of super
Trump’s sham peace plan
Japan’s LDP coalition splits – what does this mean?
The half-life of humiliation and the hunger for revenge
Time for a ‘just peace’ for all peoples in Palestine
The West’s crucial strategic failures
Lack of China capability can only do harm to society: Our current situation is a disgrace
Message from the editor
These are fighting words
Ignorance is complicity: Australia must end its arms trade with those committing crimes
How anti-China witch hunts in Canada and the UK ruin lives
Fifty years of political economics at Sydney University – what has it meant for us?
Who would be a carer?
Dying in prison
South Korea’s caution on US Iran aims
Childhood on hold: Growing up too soon in Gaza and beyond
Is this the moment that will define cricket’s future?
The UN in Trump’s world and the implications for Australia’s independence
Australia’s climate assessment fails on sea-level rise risks and vulnerable communities
Universal Jurisdiction: Australia’s crucial role in international criminal justice
Bruce Beresford’s The Travellers blends opera and the outback in a heartfelt story about homecoming
Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Celebrate the ceasefire, but don’t forget: Gaza survived on its own
Judge allows Kostakidis ‘antisemitism’ case to proceed
Price rally fuels surge in Southeast Asia gold businesses – Asian Media Report
Almost no Australians study Chinese any more. That’s a problem
‘We must keep the pressure on’: Humanitarians say ceasefire doesn’t erase Gaza genocide
An Australian chemist just won the Nobel Prize. Here’s how his work is changing the world
The Australian media is more concentrated than ever. Here are the three moments that got us here
Van Jones and the moral vacancy of American commentary on Gaza
The return of the KKK?
How the West will package the genocide after Netanyahu
Trump says Israel and Hamas sign off on first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
Australia’s next big bet lies East, not West
A masterclass in agency: What Singapore can teach Australia about China
Our American obsession
Jeffrey Sachs: Twenty-point plan minus the US-UK colonialism
Journos as heroes and villains – ‘The Hack’ reviewed – Part 2
Is Greta Thunberg the lone voice for justice in our world?
Campus leaders mobilise to battle Trump’s anti-education ‘Compact’ tooth and nail
The Earth uncloaked – A catastrophe in slow motion
Do you see me? Do you hear me? Does what I say matter?
Between two wounds: Gaza confronts Trump’s plan to end the war
A time to redouble our efforts for Palestine
Journos as heroes and villans – ‘The Hack’ reviewed – Part 1
Cancelling Chris Hedges: What price balance?
Japan’s likely new leader is a surprise, and not just because she is a woman
Shadow of McCarthyism looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity
Ian McEwan’s new novel explores resentment and vengeance in a fractured world
Statement on cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia
A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine
7 October not a day to abuse protesters
Hundreds of thousands flood cities across Europe to demand end to genocide in Gaza
‘Disaster season’: What is that?
Inequality and the future of democracy
Trump’s Gaza peace plan: Today, tomorrow and the day after
The RBA says changing rates won’t raise house prices. I wouldn’t be so sure
UK polls suggest Starmer is deeply unpopular. Can he survive another year?
New school funding agreements deny full funding for public schools
Do politicians ever listen to the people or only the powerful?
How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education
Secret cargo: Inside Australia’s covert F-35 parts pipeline to Israel
Australia faces a looming crisis of older women retiring in poverty. Here’s what we can do
Steerage for the Australian-PNG navy?
Rio Tinto flags early closure of Queensland’s biggest coal generator as LNP prepares new energy plan
‘Ban Israeli football’: Scholars urge UEFA to bar Israel over Gaza horrors
7 October 2023: shocking yes, surprising no
7 October 2023: Return of the Hannibal Directive and the genocide starts now – Part 2
World water in crisis
Charlie Kirk, Andrew Hastie and the ‘Christian’ West: Some Christian pushback
What are international protests revealing about Palestine, Israel and public opinion?
Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
7 October 2023: What really happened? Part 1
Message from the editor
Chris Hedges – Statement by the National Press Club ( 4 October 2025)
South Korea’s anti-China protests
This is not a drill: Bravery as strategy in the face of American tragedy
Palestinians out by 7 October?
The malignant minds taking over the American health sector
Individualism and desire – are we really in control?
Nation’s innovation surge continues a long tradition
Orwell foresees the 21st century
Dementia president: Could it be that Trump has truly lost his mind?
Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists
A fresh perspective on climate
When cricket turns political: The Asia Cup Final and a missing handshake
Exposing the language of oppression: Debra Dank’s ‘Terraglossia’
No justice or peace for Palestinians in Trump’s Plan
Bernie and AOC explain how Trump and GOP are about to double insurance premiums for millions of Americans
Israel’s interception of the Gaza aid flotilla is a clear violation of international law
China’s youth: Between collectivism and the new individualism
States increase pressure on Commonwealth to address hospital cost increases