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The Trump Administration has confirmed it has deployed operational weapons in space, accelerating the arms race with Russia and China. read now...

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NSW Government plans to increase migration to regional NSW, which could impact One Nation and Coalition NOM targets. read now...

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Ross Jones spoke with The Guardian's Sarah Martin on the political ascent and parliamentary scandal of One Nation's James Ashby. read now...

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Grievance politics on both sides of the political divide reduces complex challenges to simplistic slogans, fuelling division and undermining effective government and democracy. read now...

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Coalition and One Nation promises to slash migration rely on unrealistic targets for reducing Australia's massive bridging visa backlog. read now...

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From labour shortages to industry pressure, everything points to the Coalition failing to deliver on its latest promise to reduce migration. Dr Abul Rizvi reports. read now...

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Dr Norm Sanders remembers two truly honourable men who had courage and conviction: George Georges and Tom Uren. read now...

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Australia's bid for a UN Security Council seat could strengthen its role as a diplomatic bridge between global powers and smaller nations. read now...

Angus Taylor unveils his bold new immigration policy, proving the Coalition's approach to border security is quite literally a brick wall. read now...

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For decades, Australia’s economic commentariat has dressed neoliberal ideology as objective analysis, helping entrench policies that shifted wealth upwards and left workers behind. read now...

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AI is destroying our old methods of proving identity and our security systems must catch up. read now...

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While serious youth crime fuels genuine fear, evidence suggests harsher punishment is failing to address the small group of repeat offenders driving much of the harm. read now...

Political corruption thrives not simply through individual wrongdoing, but through systems that reward secrecy, influence and unequal access to power. read now...

Australia’s productivity debate overlooks a fundamental flaw: across much of the economy, productivity simply cannot be reliably measured. read now...

As propaganda clouds the Ukraine war, inconvenient truths are being buried and voices opposing the conflict silenced. read now...

AUKUS critics warn the $500 billion submarine deal is sacrificing Australian sovereignty and social priorities to deeper integration with the U.S. war machine. read now...

One Nation supporters consistently say Pauline Hanson is an “average” Australian who speaks her mind and “says what the average person is thinking all the time”. read now...

Economic analysis in most of Australia’s media last week was more manipulation than information. read now...

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Donald Trump’s headlong push for AI supremacy lies where artificial intelligence meets very real stupidity. read now...

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David Shoebridge’s rise to the Greens leadership offers a chance to challenge Labor from the Left and push for more radical action on inequality, climate change and AI. read now...

With warnings of an AI-fuelled apocalypse growing louder, Independent Australia went straight to the source and asked ChatGPT whether we should start panicking. read now...

Australia must confront falling fertility, an ageing population and growing skills shortages with a long-term strategy that looks beyond migration alone. read now...

Despite calls for AI guardrails, sadly, the Albanese Government has been "toothless" and slow to act on the threat of AI. read now...

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to 4.6%, but higher rates cannot fix oil-driven inflation and risk deepening an economic downturn. read now...

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The global space economy is becoming another layer of the world's critical infrastructure — is Australia ready to meet the challenge? read now...

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Australia’s bid for a UN Security Council seat exposes foreign policy contradictions that stand in sharp contrast to Finland’s diplomatic approach. read now...

With AUKUS costs soaring and scrutiny lacking, a public inquiry is asking the questions Parliament has failed to confront. read now...

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As Australia finally joins the voices calling for sanity on AI and the Ku Klux Klan say they find One Nation’s rise “heartening”, managing editor Michelle Pini examines what such developments mean for democracy. read now...

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Mainstream media has normalised Donald Trump’s lies, allowing deceit to become a powerful political weapon with little accountability. read now...

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AI is accelerating warfare and raising the risk of conflict spiralling beyond human control. read now...

The Coalition’s opposition to tighter working holiday visa rules is at odds with its lower migration target, leaving few politically palatable options for achieving it. read now...

China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by elections, but by who holds power, who benefits and who gets heard. read now...

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Bidding wars and nonsense targets are the focus of immigration policy in Canberra, with the Government's policy hoping to nullify One Nation's influence. read now...

Kate Halfpenny’s Boogie Wonderland is a candid and engaging memoir about chasing a simpler life and discovering that reality rarely follows the script. read now...

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