In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches is Unconstitutional, Court Finds
The ban was found to impinge upon the implied right of political communication contained in the Australian Constitution.
Click here to read the article
The Offence of Destroying ...
Thirty-one-year-old Cole Allen has been named as the suspect in an attempted shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner. Meanwhile the government has committed another $1 billion to defence vehicles
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher. Russia, Israel and the United States, all nuclear-armed,
The times might be bad, but they have suited Anthony Albanese. The explosions on the political right since the 2025 election have, in electoral terms, resulted so far mainly in a rearrangement of debris between the Coalition and One Nation. Support for the government had declined, but it has been
David Peterson/Pexels, CC BYWhen Australian workers lodge a tax return from mid next year, around 6 million taxpayers look set to be able to claim up to A$1,000 with an “instant” work-related tax deduction, without receipts. The Albanese government has just released draft legislation on the change. That deduction is
Buddha Elemental/UnsplashWe tend to think of repetition, especially with regard to novels and other media, in negative terms. To say a work is formulaic or cliched is to say that it repeats exhausted tropes and plots. But repetition is central to art. Tradition, character, genre and style are all
The US Supreme Court is poised to deliver its much anticipated and debated decision on the question of birthright citizenship. At the centre of the case (known as Trump v. Barbara) is an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day of office in 2025, barring citizenship
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches is Unconstitutional, Court Finds
The ban was found to impinge upon the implied right of political communication contained in the Australian Constitution.
Click here to read the article
The Offence of Destroying ...
Thirty-one-year-old Cole Allen has been named as the suspect in an attempted shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner. Meanwhile the government has committed another $1 billion to defence vehicles
Long before Medicare, federal election campaigns were already reshaping health as a Commonwealth responsibility. Between 1913 and 1929, Australian leaders across parties began to reposition health from a marginal federal concern to an emerging national priority. Early election debates focused narrowly on quarantine, disease control, and border ...
The honour of being Australia’s highest-taxing government isn’t perhaps one that is actively sought by state politicians — at least, not the ones in the major parties — but ministers of the Victorian Labor Party have worked assiduously to wrest the title from traditional powerhouse NSW in recent years.Go back
The Australian Human Rights Commission has endorsed the decision of the Commonwealth ombud to review the use of the integrated assessment tool in aged care. A review is underway to determine whether the IAT is being used appropriately to assess the level of care an older person needs as part
Public servants across New South Wales were issued a major warning about cabinet confidentiality conventions just days before the state government declared a “significant cyber incident” over the exfiltration of a cache of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, triggering police raids and the arrest of a Treasury official. As
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher. Russia, Israel and the United States, all nuclear-armed,
The times might be bad, but they have suited Anthony Albanese. The explosions on the political right since the 2025 election have, in electoral terms, resulted so far mainly in a rearrangement of debris between the Coalition and One Nation. Support for the government had declined, but it has been
David Peterson/Pexels, CC BYWhen Australian workers lodge a tax return from mid next year, around 6 million taxpayers look set to be able to claim up to A$1,000 with an “instant” work-related tax deduction, without receipts. The Albanese government has just released draft legislation on the change. That deduction is
Buddha Elemental/UnsplashWe tend to think of repetition, especially with regard to novels and other media, in negative terms. To say a work is formulaic or cliched is to say that it repeats exhausted tropes and plots. But repetition is central to art. Tradition, character, genre and style are all
The US Supreme Court is poised to deliver its much anticipated and debated decision on the question of birthright citizenship. At the centre of the case (known as Trump v. Barbara) is an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day of office in 2025, barring citizenship
