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Albanese’s Opportunism: Helen Haines Attacked, Motive Unknown, Politics Instant
Helen Haines, the independent member for Indi, remains in critical condition after a man deliberately drove a Toyota LandCruiser into her outside her Wangaratta electorate office. She has lost both legs. Police have charged 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, a local with a...
A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock: The Australian Bush Becomes a Pressure Cooker
Ten separate stories. Same bloody problem: Nobody tells the Australians affected. 1. The Roads Vanished, and 000 Can’t Get You September 2020. The Queensland Roads Team swapped the old Baseline Roads and Tracks (BRAT) dataset for the new Queensland Roads and Tracks...
Mired in Scandal: A Field Guide to the Albanese Government
There are no so many scandals attaching to the Australian government headed by the beleaguered Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that it is difficult to keep track. To make things easier we have compiled the following Field Guide. For its many critics the Albanese...
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Death in America: The execution will not be televised
The proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution exposed a disturbing direction in American politics: state violence packaged for an audience, with cruelty promoted as evidence of strength. Donald Trump has since cancelled the broadcast, but the political questions raised by Pete Hegseth’s proposal remain: what happens when a government treats
Australia’s Red Line Package: Human rights for sale
Australia’s commitment to international law becomes considerably less convincing when enforcing it might disrupt defence contracts, the flow of dirty investments or strategic alliances. The Albanese government’s resistance to the Red Lines Package exposes this inherent contradiction: they will always condemns atrocities overseas, while continuing to make sure that Australian
PFAS, housing and climate: Luciana Carusi’s fight for the Blue Mountains
The coming NSW election asks a question that reaches beyond which party forms government: how much influence do communities actually have over the decisions shaping their lives? In the Blue Mountains, disputes over development, PFAS water contamination, housing affordability and climate policy expose a widening gap between being consulted and