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Youthquake
Open Forum | April 14, 2025A demographic “youthquake” may shake up 2025 federal election as Millenial and Gen Z voters outnumber Boomers and Gen Xers for the first time, and housing and employment insecurity top their list of issues.
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Rethinking Pax Americana
Michael Pezzullo | April 13, 2025The United States is behaving erratically and imprudently, not least by lashing out at its allies and partners and by confusing financial markets, as Trump rails at what he sees as foreign freeloading on American might.
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Who shapes education?
Jessica Holloway | April 13, 2025Opposition Leader Peter Dutton began his election campaign with fresh criticism of Australia’s educational curricula, but who actually decides what is taught in the nation’s schools?
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Pork barrels and bad eggs
Yee-Fui Ng | April 13, 2025Our faith in government has been eroded by a lack of transparency and the perception that those in power are enjoying unfair benefits. The active investigations by robust institutions such as anti-corruption commissions will act as checks and balances on governmental power – and are key to a vibrant democracy.
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ChatGPTariff
Cory Alpert | April 12, 2025The debacle resulting from Donald Trump’s imposition then partial postponement of a tariff trade-way may have been fueled, in part, by a credulous reliance on AI which doesn’t leave anyone in a good light.
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Backsliding into tyranny
Liam Gammon | April 12, 2025The United States is moving dangerously close to authoritarianism as the second Trump administration shows no regard for law, democratic processes or political freedoms.
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Lessons from China
David Livingstone | April 12, 2025China is a brutal autocracy intent on international expansion but its success in renewing its internal infrastructure and industrial power offers lessons the West would do well to learn if we are to compete.
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Did Labor deliver?
Frank Rindert Algra-Maschio | April 11, 2025Democratic governments across the globe tend to deliver roughly two-thirds of their promises, though most voters believe it is far fewer, so how did Labor do in its first term?
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A letter to America
David Wroe | April 11, 2025Donald Trump’s quest to ‘make America great again’ is measured only in money and is destroying the values which made America great in the first place.
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Green for go?
Kate Crowley | April 11, 2025Greens leader Adam Bandt claims the federal election offers “an opportunity for real change”, saying his party would use the balance of power in the next parliament to help deliver serious policy reforms.
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In the shadow of Trump
Rebecca Strating | April 10, 2025While voters may be preoccupied with the cost of living, it’s impossible to ignore the global tumult caused by the second Trump administration in the current election campaign.
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Mission impossible
Open Forum | April 10, 2025There is no shortage of female candidates in this year’s Federal election, but most seats are not in contention, and most female candidates are standing in unwinnable seats.
