Police direct traffic outside an entrance to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate after the former president said the FBI was conducting a search.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the landmark Roe v Wade ruling on abortion is having big political ramifications - and favouring the Democrats.
The housing crisis facing Australians has been brewing for a long time. A national housing strategy guided by expert, independent and transparent advice is long overdue.
While it is far from certain the former president will face legal consequences from the hearings, they may kill off any hope he holds of running in 2024.
Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness. The stories of women who had to flee their homes make it clear the dire shortage of social housing in Australia leaves them with nowhere to go.
Dancers performing evening ceremonial Bungul at the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land.
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Australian Governments must embrace Indigenous Nation Building if the Uluru Statement is to lead to effective structural reform and self-determined government for First Nations peoples.
The government is now assured it will secure its legislation to enshrine its 43% 2030 emissions reduction target, after Greens leader Adam Bandt pledged his party would support it in both houses.
The US speak of the house’s visit to Taiwan has provoked more sabre-rattling from China, but neither China nor the US will want tensions to escalate further.
Reserving the right: Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth during question time last Thursday.
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Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government’s climate legislation.
Just like armour protects soldiers’ bodies, steroids do too. There’s no reason to believe steroid use by the military is unethical, but further studies are needed.
Slow progress: a freight train negotiating one of the many tight curves between Goulburn and Yass.
Bailey Thorpe
First Nations children continue to be overrepresented in incarceration to due to overpolicing. What can schools do to decolonise education and keep First Nations kids in school?
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tom Calma on the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Tom Calma, Chancellor of the University of Canberra, who has been a leading participant in Indigenous affairs for many years, about the Voice to parliament referendum proposal.
The Australian Law Reform Commission report recommends major changes to the way judges are appointed and educated, and supports an independent body to investigate allegations of misconduct.
Tony Burke once worked hard to stop euthanasia becoming law in the Northern Territory. Now, he must usher through a new bill to allow the territories to debate the issue.
The coronavirus pandemic has probably changed many aspects of life forever. But one thing unlikely to change is a snapback to the hyper-partisan bickering of politics before its arrival.
There have been regular calls and inquiries into media ownership in Australia. But despite the howls of outrage, there has bene little political appetite to do anything about it.
China’s attacks on Australia may seem over the top, but they are meant to achieve specific goals — playing to a nationalist domestic audience and making an example of Australia to the world.
Yes, it is important to censure harmful and offensive speech. But there are ethical costs to widening the scope of our moral outrage to viewpoints that merely differ from our own.