15+ hour, 1+ min ago   (416+ words) The Northern Territory’s soaring imprisonment rates, punitive youth justice policies and rejection of expert advice reveal a system failing Indigenous communities and strengthening the case for urgent Commonwealth intervention in justice. We live in a dangerous age in Australia if…...

1+ day, 12+ min ago   (953+ words) Australia’s population debate cannot be separated from environmental decline, inequality and economic wellbeing. With continued growth adding pressure, zero population growth deserves a serious place in the national conversation. Not one of Australia’s political parties with seats in federal parliament…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1038+ words) Financial stress is rising and life satisfaction is falling, but Australians’ discontent runs deeper than household budgets to growing distrust in politics and government. These are dog days for Australians, it seems. Some of this despondency is easily explained, but…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (734+ words) Restoring home ownership requires substantially lower house prices – and for most existing homeowners, falling property values need not leave them materially worse off. Housing affordability has declined dramatically over the last half century, and particularly in this century. As a…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (440+ words) The UN now accepts that global warming is going to exceed 1.5°C but it’s unlikely that this will change anything governments or corporations do. It’s now too late to avoid catastrophic global warming. The task now is to limit further…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (941+ words) Paul Keating says Australia should resist strategic subordination to the United States without accepting Chinese dominance, and instead preserve its own sovereignty. The Sydney launch of historian James Curran’s new book, Grand Ambition: Paul Keating’s Global Vision for Australia (Simon…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (973+ words) Australians are becoming less connected, trusting and satisfied with life, but resilience remains – and tackling insecurity could help rebuild social cohesion. Look around the world and you would think the world is burning and Australian society is burning with it....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1157+ words) Joshua Black’s ‘Performance Politics’ traces how Australian politicians have used memoirs, publishing and television to shape public personas and secure their political legacies. The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (954+ words) Australia cannot make housing more affordable while protecting homeowners from falling prices. The current downturn may reveal how serious politicians really are about fixing the system. Do the two sides of politics want more affordable housing or not? They would…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (577+ words) As Labor and Coalition support has collapsed, the Greens have remained stuck around 12 per cent – constrained by geography, culture and a changing generational base. And yet, amid all this churn, one party has barely moved. The Greens. Instead, they have…...