Future made in Australia? China and Indonesia are listening, nickel and dimeBy Duncan Graham | April 20, 2024As Anthony Albanese unfurled his Future Made in Australia Act, Joko Widodo was hosting Chinese Foreign Minister ...
Dan Duggan’s extradition. Lost in a geopolitical quagmire of laws and treaties?By Andrew Gardiner | April 19, 2024Dan Duggan has languished in jail for almost two years, awaiting extradition to the US. However, there are signs ...
Eve of destruction. Can war in the Middle East be avoided?By Stuart McCarthy | April 17, 2024As Iran retaliates, Israel contemplates its response. Cool heads and calm reflection are needed as the Middle East ...
Private schools, public subsidies: with $50k fees per child per year, how can tax breaks be justified?By Alexia Adhikari and Morgan Harrington | April 17, 2024Private schools are competing in an 'arms race' of vanity projects, even winning architecture prizes, so how can ...
Modular Reactors. Peter Dutton hasn’t done his nuclear homeworkBy Rex Patrick | April 16, 2024Is Peter Dutton’s proposed ‘rollout’ of modular nuclear reactors real policy or just politics? What research has ...
Mable the “Uber of the NDIS”. Are digital care platforms keeping clients safe?By Zacharias Szumer | April 15, 2024Digital care platforms like Mable are seeking to bring higher levels of efficiency, choice and control to the ...
“An Awkward Problem”: Julian Assange and the Australian dog that didn’t barkBy Philip Dorling and Rex Patrick | April 13, 2024Joe Biden says he’s “considering” an end to the prosecution of Julian Assange. Anthony Albanese says, “enough is ...
Australia’s Border Farce. Stops a boat, ignores the planeloads, targets the 0.05%By Duncan Graham | April 12, 2024Last week, Australian Border Force deployed one hundred officers to detain a dozen asylum seekers on the Kimberley ...
Orwell revisited. Transparency sucked down the electronic memory hole of disappearing messagesBy Rex Patrick | April 11, 2024Government officials are using disappearing text messages to circumvent scrutiny, threatening transparency and ...
Too good to be true? The unravelling of Lendlease, and the big hit to comeBy Michael West | April 10, 2024Lendlease ‘smoke and mirrors’ corporate shenanigans have come home to roost but there is still at least one big ...
McBride, Binskin and the Keystone Cops – culture of cover-ups now Zomi Frankcom investigationBy Stuart McCarthy | April 10, 2024Defence boss turned weapons company director Mark Binskin led the 'Keystone Cops' task-force associated with ...
Propaganda Blitzkrieg: Israel followed Australia’s textbook on how to respond to war crimes allegationsBy Stuart McCarthy | April 8, 2024"The IDF three-day information operation had the same precision, tempo and effectiveness as the initial kinetic ...
Foreign bribery law amendments – big stick or wet lettuce leaf?By Duncan Graham | April 7, 2024Seven years in the making, Parliament recently passed amendments to the Criminal Code Act that cover foreign ...
Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-LesteBy Rex Patrick | April 5, 2024Two decades after the Howard Government spied on Timor-Leste’s seabed boundary negotiating team, the Albanese ...
Songbirds and snakes. How to end the ‘Hunger Games’ of housing affordabilityBy Harry Chemay | April 3, 2024In this final instalment of the Housing Hunger Games series, Harry Chemay identifies all policy culprits and all ...