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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