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The Pacific’s stable instability
Blake Johnson | December 12, 2024Despite the recent dissolution of parliament in Vanuatu and motions of no confidence in Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Solomon Islands, political instability in the Pacific isn’t significantly increasing. It just feels like it.
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Is this all there is?
Susan Moore | December 12, 2024Australians are retiring later than ever, but extended life expectancy means that a new sense of purpose is required alongside financial security to make the next stage of life worth living.
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Shallow promises
Eva Maximova | December 12, 2024Pacific states are turning to deep-sea mining for economic reasons, despite the economic costs of oceanic pollution associated with mining in the long-term.
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The burning question
Greg Barton | December 11, 2024The recent spate of attacks and hate crimes against Jewish people in Australia – the latest of which struck Woollahra in Sydney last night – demands a faster and more resolute response from the authorities.
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Curbing car emissions
Robin Smit | December 11, 2024Australian’s lack of car efficiency standards – and long-standing fondness for ponderous UTES, massive SUVs and clunkers with modified exhausts – mean our transport emits far more carbon than it should.
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Labor pledges 3 days of free child care
Michelle Grattan | December 11, 2024Anthony Albanese will promise a re-elected Labor government would guarantee three days of subsidised child care without people having to undertake an activity test.
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Dominic O'Sullivan | December 10, 2024As New Zealand’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill goes to a Parliamentary Select Committee Hearing it’s worth considering whether te Tiriti o Waitangi really does undermine liberal democracy as the Bill’s proponents say.
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Firebugs
Open Forum | December 10, 2024Arson, rather than climate change, is the direct cause of around 40% of Australia’s bushfires,but prevention of deliberately lit conflagrations is mostly absent from emergency, public health and climate action plans.
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Remaking healthy cities
Jinhee Kim | December 10, 2024Australia drifted away from the Healthy Cities movement it helped start. It can still get back on track.
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Albanese must step up on anti-Semitism
Michelle Grattan | December 9, 2024Labor has been lukewarm in its condemnation of anti-semetic attacks and vandalism but despite the temptations posed by an approaching election, the parties need to unite behind combatting this scourge before social cohesion is further undermined.
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After Assad
Ali Mamouri | December 9, 2024With its Russian and Iranian allies stretched and distracted elsewhere, a swift assault by rebel forces has brought about the humiliating fall of Syria’s brutal Assad regime.
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Tomorrow’s Army today
Marcus Schultz | December 9, 2024The head of Australia’s army, Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, has laid out his vision for a more effective and accountable service.
