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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