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How to deal with the Craig Kelly in your life: a guide to tackling...
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Australians love a fiery contest, whether on the sporting field or in the corridors of Canberra. Which is why this week’s spat between Tanya Plibersek and Craig Kelly, which played out in front of...
Should Aussies stranded overseas go to the United Nations for help to get home?
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More than a year since COVID-19 emerged, there are nearly 40,000 Australians overseas who want to come home.
Amid mounting stories of people desperate to return for financial, family and personal reasons, Australians are stuck because of government caps on international arrivals, transit-country...
Millennials are not the only ‘burnout generation’ (just ask the rest of us)
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In her new book, Can’t Even, American journalist Anne Helen Peterson writes of how Millennials have become “the burnout generation”.
feeling that you’ve hit the wall exhaustion-wise, but then have to scale the wall...
If Google does pull its search engine out of Australia, there are alternatives
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The Australian government’s push to make Google pay news organisations for linking to their content has seen the search giant threaten to pull out of Australia.
Google Australia’s managing director Mel Silva said if the government’s proposal...
Why is it so difficult to stamp out seafood slavery? There is little justice,...
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Each year, thousands of men and boys labour under extremely exploitative conditions on commercial fishing vessels owned by Taiwanese, Chinese and South Korean companies.
The Taiwanese fleet, which operates in all reaches of the...
To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of...
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Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of agonising free-speech dilemmas to which there are no easy answers.
Do...
As Trump exits the White House, he leaves Trumpism behind in Australia
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Through recent natural disasters, global upheavals and a pandemic, Australia’s political centre has largely held.
Australians may have disagreed at times, but they have also kept faith with governmental norms, eschewing the false...
Biden’s Senate majority doesn’t just super-charge US climate action, it blazes a trail for...
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Last week, somewhat overshadowed by the events in Washington, the Democrats took control of the US Senate. The Democrats now hold a small majority in both the House and the Senate until 2022, giving President-elect...
Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19...
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Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning into a permanent fixture that might forever change life as...
Conspiracy theories on the right, cancel culture on the left: how political legitimacy came...
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2020 has been a challenging year. For some challenges, such as the coronavirus, a light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. But for others, the true consequences may be...
