Noam Chomsky’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein force the Left to confront the dangers of hero-worship, moral blind spots and selective accountability.

Angus Taylor may prefer to rewrite the timeline, but the migration surge of 2022–23 flowed directly from policies his own government put in place. Dr Abul Rizvi reports. ON ABC'S 7.30 (Monday 16 ...

A plan to decarbonise the Australian economy by nationalising and euthanising the Australian fossil fuel industry, writes Guy Lane. A 2019 REPORT CO-AUTHORED by the late Professor Will Steffen stated ...

While short-term migration forecasts may soothe Canberra, five decades of compounding growth reveal a far bigger story — an ageing immigrant population that is quietly reshaping Australia’s ...

Legal terminology can be confusing. Especially when you only ever hear them mentioned in news reports or court stories. Indeed, terms like assault and affray are regularly bandied about when there’s ...

Once defined by dissent and solidarity, Generation X is now fuelling Pauline Hanson’s resurgence — driven less by conviction than by disillusionment, fear and misplaced anger, writes James May. As a ...

Calls to ‘consider the context’ of President Herzog’s visit obscure Israel’s ban on dozens of NGOs in Gaza and the West Bank, writes Dr Sue Wareham. Part of that context is the horrific massacre of 15 ...

Donald Trump is framed as a modern Pyrgopolynices, a braggart whose performative narcissism has moved from farce to real power, with consequences still unfolding, writes William J Dominik. Plautus ...

Despite the Gold Coast City Council twice voting to reject a development proposal endorsed by his administration, Gold Coast Council CEO Tim Baker unilaterally overturned that democratic decision, ...

Our climate is collapsing because our comfort depends on systems that exploit people and nature elsewhere, writes Mark Beeson. ONE REASON WHY so many of us are concerned about climate change is ...

As racism shifts from the fringe to the mainstream, Australia’s social cohesion and democratic stability are being quietly eroded, writes Dr Victoria Fielding. AUSTRALIA IS A PROUD, multicultural ...

The latest official data confirms that poverty and homelessness are gradually easing, as Alan Austin reports. FAR TOO MANY Australians are still “doing it tough”, to use Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ ...