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Britain's push for proportional representation leaves Australia behind

Britain's growing push for proportional representation is shining a spotlight on Australia's ow ...  
AUKUS: Australia's $368 billion boondoggle

Scott Morrison’s economy-crippling AUKUS boondoggle cost $368 billion for eight nuclear subma ...  
Australia’s social media ban offers lessons for the Netherlands

Dutch researchers use Australia's social media ban as a case study to find ways to make digi ...  
How the Right radicalised its own voters

Mainstream conservative parties helped create the conditions for the Far-Right's rise by norm ...  
What Catiline tells us about Trump and democratic decline

Donald Trump is often treated as an aberration, but history suggests otherwise.  
One Nation now importing Farage's grievance politics

The moment a society can describe a real injustice only in the vocabulary of extremists, the ...  
Australia joins EU's innovation powerhouse: Why Horizon Europe matters

Australia's association with Horizon Europe gives Australian organisations opportunities to lead ...  
Enhanced Games expose the limits of sport’s steroid experiment

A drug-friendly sporting spectacle promised a transhuman revolution, but clean athletes, modest ...  
Sarah Henderson puts Senate Estimates on notice over Israel's Eurovision score

Liberal Senator uses Senate Estimates to examine Israel's Eurovision score and cult band TISM unde ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: FIFA World Cup and fun and games in the time of war

Moral amnesia: How can we be distracted by fun and games in the midst of protracted conflicts?  
Investigating the foolish: The AUKUS Public Inquiry is announced

A crowdfunded public inquiry into AUKUS is set to examine the submarine pact's costs, risks and ...  
AUKUS: Australia gets what America can spare

Australia's AUKUS submarine plan is being reshaped by American and British constraints, rai ...  
Why Australia needs its own 'No Kings' protests

As millions march under the banner of ‘No Kings’ in the United States, it's time Australian ...  
The drone war turning Ukraine into a machine battlefield

Ukraine's drone army is reshaping modern warfare, turning the battlefield into a relentless cont ...  
Australian flotilla survivors describe ordeal after Gaza mission

A humanitarian mission may have ended at the border, but for some Australian participants, the ...  
Beneath Mexico’s World Cup host city: A crisis of forced disappearances

The 2026 World Cup is set among cartel violence and families desperately searching for their loved ...  
New Caledonia: Paris continues to obstruct decolonisation

New Caledonia is a test of whether France is prepared to apply the human rights principles it ...  
What New Zealand can teach Australia about democracy

The Farrer by-election has exposed the cracks in Australia's two-party system and revived the case ...  

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