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A bad case of the blues
Joshua Black | August 18, 2026Paul Kelly’s new book The Twilight of Exceptionalism charts the most turbulent era of Liberal and conservative politics since Sir Robert Menzies formed the Liberal Party, tracing the crisis besetting the Coalition and how Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison struggled to govern and finally survive.
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Researching antisemitism
Josh Keller | August 17, 2026Combating antisemitism requires understanding how it operates, why it persists over time and across populations, and how it can be addressed but a lack of specific research is hampering attempts to combat it effectively.
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Keeping girls in sport
Alexander Best | August 17, 2026While most Australian girls play sport at school, almost two-thirds drop out of organised games by the age of 15, compared to just under half of Australian boys, so what can be done to maintain participation?
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Testimony as a target
Josh Roose | August 17, 2026The hostility and hatred expressed towards Australia’s Jewish community in recent years has been extended to Bondi royal commission witnesses who have suffered antisemitic abuse after testifying.
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You don’t know what you’re doing
Ella Chorazy | August 16, 2026British football fans often vent their disdain at a hapless manager by chanting ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’, but the media all too often try to make sense of Donald Trump’s chaotic policies instead of exposing them for the rambling, vindictive nonsense they are.
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Not playing but fighting
Julia Henning | August 16, 2026Have you ever watched online videos of people “playing” with cats and noticed the cat doesn’t actually look like they’re having fun? You’re probably right.
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A feminist history of witches
Nicole Kimball | August 16, 2026A new book by Lucianne Tonti, “Good Witch: In Search of Our Lost Feminine Power” is a deeply personal examination of the witch hunts in Europe and North America written from a feminist perspective.
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Bread, work, freedom
Open Forum | August 15, 2026The Taliban barred girls from attending school beyond Grade 6 shortly after retaking Kabul in August 2021 and the systematic oppression of women and girls by the hardline Islamic regime has only increased ever since.
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Still dancing after all these years
Wendy Hargreaves | August 15, 2026Swedish pop sensation ABBA released their single Dancing Queen half a century ago and it’s still riding the airwaves, being belted out on the West End stage, squealed at karaoke parties, paraded at Mardi Gras, and danced to at wedding receptions around the world.
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The grains of wrath
Iryna Skubii | August 15, 2026While the world’s attention is fixated on the US blockade of Iranian ports and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Russia has been subjecting Ukraine to a blockade of its own in the Black Sea, imperilling Ukraine’s summer grain harvest.
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Mama, we’re all political now
Intifar Chowdhury | August 14, 2026Young people have become ‘fluid citizens’ who eschew formal institutions but retain the energy and drive to transform what people believe, fear, reject and demand
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China’s broken dream
Robert Wihtol | August 14, 2026Minxin Pei’s new book lifts the lid on China’s great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of greater democracy as many in the West had foolishly hoped.
