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Caviar, missiles and Mar-a-Lago: Inside Panahi’s birthday bash
17+ hour, 26+ min ago (1396+ words) March 13, 2026 " 5:00am In this week's On Background, Rita Panahi learns to stop worrying and love the bomb, an ABC news boss has a front-row seat to a reporter's rant, and D-Day looms for The Kyle & Jackie O Show. One of News…...
Trump says he believes Iran, not the US, bombed the girls’ school.
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (56+ words) US President Donald Trump discusses the February 28 strike on an Iranian girls' school with reporters aboard Air Force One. (Footage: White House) US President Donald Trump discusses the February 28 strike on an Iranian girls' school with reporters aboard Air Force…...
Did LeBron James write for a communist paper? China said he did
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (897+ words) Last month, People's Daily, a Chinese Communist Party newspaper, published what looked like a rare opinion column by a foreigner, NBA star LeBron James. In it, he praised basketball as a cultural bridge between countries. The problem: James never wrote…...
We must teach the young how to protect our precious democracy
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (200+ words) Abraham Lincoln: The man to talk to about democracy.Credit: Library of Congress Peter Hartcher's article delivered the disturbing news that there are only 25 democracies in the world, and evidence that that figure may certainly dwindle in coming years. It…...
As Trump trashes America’s democracy, we’re celebrating ours
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (1260+ words) When a high-powered group of Americans joined a swag of influential Australians for a three-day conclave in Adelaide this week, it was a bit like a wedding and a funeral. The Aussies broadly were content with the state of our…...
With civics education, we can all become influencers
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (482+ words) Could you recognise these two men? Should you be able to? (Edmund Barton, Australia's first prime minister, and Alfred Deakin, the first attorney-general.)Credit: SMH Educating our young adults in civics and parliamentary procedure is critical to ensure democracy continues…...
It takes an army to make democracy work. It’s time more of us enlisted
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (456+ words) The election is done and dusted. Some people are delighted with the result, some relieved and some disappointed, as happens every cycle. But our system has worked and all of us should be happy that our democracy seems to be…...