Australia taxes and spends less than most comparable developed countries, while essential services remain underfunded.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was illegal, but Australia’s response has also exposed a deeper inconsistency in how it applies ...

One Nation wants to restart native forest logging in Victoria, but decades of losses, shrinking timber supply and a $402 ...

French students are protesting against an education system already divided by class. Parcoursup risks reinforcing those ...

The attack on Helen Haines has sharpened concern about political violence. Regulating platforms and policing threats matter, ...

Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis has reopened doors long closed to Big Tobacco, as companies lobby for excise cuts and gain ...

The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance to half a million people in Gaza as funding falls sharply, with ...

Warnings about existential AI risk are distracting from immediate harms and helping justify rules that could entrench ...

Housing tax reform shows how strongly tax settings shape behaviour. Australia should now shift more of the tax burden from ...

Buying thousands of operations from private hospitals may cut waiting lists temporarily, but it does little to solve the ...

The abuse directed at Helen Haines after she was critically injured exposes a culture in which grievance towards women is ...

Lobbying, political donations, revolving doors and appeals to jobs and national prosperity have helped keep coal and gas ...