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Is Tasmania governable?
Kate Crowley
28 July 2025
National trends and local factors have combined to make forming government an immensely complicated process
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The ICJ takes on climate
Karen Middleton
25 July 2025
The International Court of Justice has opened the door for human rights–based legal action against recalcitrant governments
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Keeping a watch on television
Jock Given & Ramon Lobato
25 July 2025
The British communications regulator’s SOS for broadcast TV is a message for Australians too
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How to misread a referendum
Peter Brent
23 July 2025
More evidence emerges that Peter Dutton’s electorally toxic impulses were reinforced by misleading polling
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The jewel in the crown of the ANU
Tom Griffiths and Mark McKenna
22 July 2025
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the
Australian Dictionary of Biography
and its fellow national project, the
Australian National Dictionary
, are…
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John Stone, political activist
Dominic Kelly
22 July 2025
The former Treasury head was revealed to be an arch-reactionary in his long second career
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Let’s just get this done, shall we?
Karen Middleton
18 July 2025
A former Treasury secretary lays down the environmental law
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Officer-induced jeopardy
Karen Middleton
11 July 2025
The NT coroner spells out the long series of events that led to Kumanjayi Walker’s death
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How to disappear a problem
Dean Ashenden
10 July 2025
The school system has spent fifty years not fixing one of its central flaws
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Parents and partners last?
Peter Mares
7 July 2025
Immigration might not be the headline issue it was before the election, but problems are mounting
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Crimes Act’s cyber tidy-up
Karen Middleton
4 July 2025
An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms
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Are pro-natalists living on the same planet?
John Quiggin
30 June 2025
Nostalgia-fuelled panic about declining populations doesn’t match plausible forecasts
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Whose voice?
Tim Rowse
30 June 2025
New shadow minister Kerrynne Liddle believes the rights of the vulnerable should take precedence over Indigenous rights
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A self-proclaimed zealot throws down the gauntlet
Karen Middleton
27 June 2025
A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation
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Iran and the US alliance
Graeme Dobell
23 June 2025
How Australia viewed the weekend bombing
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Taxing times
Karen Middleton
20 June 2025
Jim Chalmers wants to “test the appetite” for more ambitious productivity reforms
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On parade in a new age of wars
Graeme Dobell
19 June 2025
As Iran and Israel wage war, big military parades are held in the United States and Britain
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Diagnoses in, now for action
Lesley Russell
17 June 2025
Labor can’t deliver better healthcare without embarking on the reforms proposed by a succession of inquiries
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AUKUS’s missing price tag
Karen Middleton
13 June 2025
Anthony Albanese heads to Canada for an uncertain meeting with an unpredictable president
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Contested possession
Ian McShane
10 June 2025
A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium
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Labor’s Russian embassy headache returns to court
Karen Middleton
6 June 2025
The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat
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Riding high
Paul Rodan
4 June 2025
The final election count adds up to a remarkable win for Labor, but history offers warnings
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Australia’s widening wealth gap, and what to do about it
Saul Eslake
3 June 2025
Growing wealth inequality is setting Australia up for conflict, but solutions aren’t out of reach
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Treasury tools up for housing
Peter Mares
2 June 2025
Clare O’Neil has gained extra ministerial clout, and that could be good news for housing policy and programs
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The Senate’s status seekers
Karen Middleton
30 May 2025
Having lost Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Liberals, the National Party has tried to entice at least one senator from the crossbenches
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Labor’s Trump card goes missing
Peter Brent
27 May 2025
A key factor in Labor’s election win was forgotten once the postmortems began
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David Littleproud’s own goal
Karen Middleton
23 May 2025
The week the Nationals’ leader overplayed his hand
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1943’s message to the Liberal Party
Zachary Gorman
23 May 2025
The case for sticking with the suspension of the Coalition
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It’s not as simple as building more houses
Peter Mares
21 May 2025
Labor’s housing policies focus on increasing supply. Now it must also tackle distribution
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Sussan Ley and the Liberal right: a short history
Karen Middleton
16 May 2025
Will the party swing behind its new leader?
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