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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 ...

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 ...

While leaders fumble climate action, the unchecked rise of superintelligent AI could eclipse every threat we know, writes Mark Beeson. WELL-MEANING friends frequently tell me not to be so pessimistic, ...

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 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 ...

Between 2007 and 2013, Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard "played musical chairs". (Photo, 2007.) This picture captures then-Deputy PM Julia Gillard applauding Prime Minister Kevin ...

Having moved on from his role as Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton has passed on a backlog of asylum seekers vulnerable to exploitation, writes Dr Abul Rizvi. MOST AUSTRALIANS would be surprised to ...

ON WHITE BALLOON DAY 2014, September 7, an event meaningful to me because it raises awareness for child sex assault victims, the main perpetrator of my childhood abuse, Antony Kidman, died suddenly in ...

Dealing with the backlog of people stuck on bridging visas has to be part of the plan to reduce migration, but politicians don't see the link, writes Dr Abul Rizvi. IT IS VERY RARE for our politicians ...

After spending the last few years pandering to the cult of Trump, Murdoch journalist Adam Creighton is now fully immersed in the culture of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) as its Chief Economist ...

Indigenous Australian boxing world champion Lionel Rose became one of Australia's most famous sportsmen after beating Japan’s Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada for the world bantamweight title in 1968.