Australia taxes and spends less than most comparable developed countries, while essential services remain underfunded.
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One Nation wants to restart native forest logging in Victoria, but decades of losses, shrinking timber supply and a $402 ...
French students are protesting against an education system already divided by class. Parcoursup risks reinforcing those ...
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Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis has reopened doors long closed to Big Tobacco, as companies lobby for excise cuts and gain ...
The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance to half a million people in Gaza as funding falls sharply, with ...
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Warnings about existential AI risk are distracting from immediate harms and helping justify rules that could entrench ...
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The abuse directed at Helen Haines after she was critically injured exposes a culture in which grievance towards women is ...
From apartheid South Africa to Rwanda, the ICC and Gaza, Navi Pillay’s career has been built on the belief that international law must protect people from abuses of state power.