Uber is eyeing a service to take children wherever their parents would otherwise have to drive them themselves. Some might see it as a lifesaver, but it’s problematic for many reasons.
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Immigration might be making it easier for doctors to enter New Zealand, but if the licensing process doesn’t change we still risk losing much-needed skills to other countries.
As the year ends, how has New Zealand fared on global and domestic measurements, from social and economic freedoms to tackling poverty and homelessness?
Albanese has always been a supporter but in government, Rudd was a highly divisive figure. His controlling leadership style, micromanagement and temper outbursts were publicly and harshly condemned by various colleagues.
Politicisation of taxpayer-funded advertising is wasteful and creates an uneven playing field in elections.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong is travelling to China to mark the half-century anniversary of a relationship that has ridden the vicissitudes over that time.
The latest breakthrough in the bilateral relationship follows the meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20
With an election due in October 2024, Queenslanders still favour the incumbent Palaszczuk government.
After a history of coups and military interventions, can Fiji make a peaceful transition to normal democratic rule?
2022 has been a transformational year in Australian politics, with three significant elections and a distinct erosion of support for the two major parties, and particularly the Liberals.
In this podcast, Michelle chats with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton.
Conspiracy beliefs can be motivators for actual or attempted violence against specific people, places, and organisations. What should, and shouldn’t, police do to counter them?
Name microaggression refers to negative assumptions about people with ethnic-sounding birth names. This can lead to bigger acts of discrimination, which causes harm to people with these names.
It was vintage Morrison, as he gave evidence on a scandal that involved appalling treatment of people wrongfully pursued in the name of the “integrity” of the welfare system
Our research highlights the risks and challenges that must be worked through to align sexual consent laws across the states and territories.
An expert group formed to advise on the Voice to Parliament finds it will not give any group of Australians special rights over any other.
The Victorian election results are finalised. How different might they have looked under a reformed Senate system?
In this podcast Michelle and Amanda Dunn review the year and discuss what's coming up in 2023
Growing civil unrest, exacerbated by COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, has seen assaults against police rise and made their jobs more dangerous.
New Zealand’s MIQ system has been found ‘unreasonable’ yet still broadly justified. And just like the decisions that drove the COVID response, any apology will be more about politics than the law.
While incidents like the one that has occurred in rural Queensland will shock Australians, such incidents are relatively rare.
A new book argues that very rarely it is ethically justifiable to deceive to get a story. But mostly it’s a dangerous and harmful practice that adds to the public’s mistrust of the media.
A country of plenty like Australia should be able to ensure no one is denied their right to adequate food. But food insecurity is on the rise, and we aren’t even properly monitoring the problem.
More nuanced understandings of racism, wealth and ‘whiteness’ are needed when designing anti-racism policy.
These new sanctions target individuals and entities rather than whole countries, in the hope of punishing the true perpetrators and avoiding the incidental suffering of innocent people.