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Capitalism's unrestrained access to political influence, land and labour is starting to cannibalise the very consumer market it requires to exist, writes Yuki Lindley. WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA feeds ...

During his recent Lowy Lecture address, ASIO chief Mike Burgess made questionable claims about social cohesion, trust in institutions and values, writes Jaron Sutton. It’s a good thing that Burgess ...

Tasmania has become Australia's new logging hotspot, wasting public money while destroying our native forests. Tom de Kadt reports. LAST WEEK, the Australian Conservation Foundation released research ...

A new OECD report warns that without coherent strategy and collaboration, Australia’s tech ambitions risk collapsing under bureaucracy and complacency, writes Paul Budde. THE OECD’s Science, ...

The numbers confirm Australia’s economy is responding to global conditions better than most, as Alan Austin reports. THIS WEEK’S number is 46. Australia has now had its jobless rate below 4.6% for 46 ...

The monopolisation of media isn't just undemocratic — it enables criminal economies to flourish behind a façade of control, writes Nick Potter. WHEN A GOVERNMENT declares that it “solely controls” the ...

Australia has emerged as a global digital frontrunner, securing fifth place in the OECD’s Digital Government Index for its innovative, citizen-focused governance. Paul Budde reports. THIS TIME, ...

In the age of Trump, diplomacy has ceased to be the art of persuasion. It has become the art of surviving the performance, writes Vince Hooper. The recent White House meeting between President Trump, ...

Beneath the surface of moral posturing, Australian retirement funds are helping keep Israel’s war economy alive, writes Jemma Nott. WHEN HESTA, the super fund for Australia's health care workers, ...

A landmark new book, expanding on Rachel Perkins’ acclaimed documentary, confronts the truth of the Frontier Wars — the violence, resistance and silence that defined Australia’s colonial past, writes ...

Australia does not lack ideas, it lacks resolve about the kind of country we want to be, writes Carl Rhodes. VIOLENCE RETURNED to Melbourne’s streets last weekend. Anti-immigration marchers clashed ...