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Is the Albanese government’s decision to bring NBA star Shaquille O'Neal in on Indigenous reform inspired or ‘cultural cringe’?
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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The new government’s focus on international engagement has allowed Australia to reset important relationships abroad.
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Kiwibank is now a state-owned asset. But the government’s reasons for rescuing the bank might not make a great deal of sense.
US president Joe Biden speaks with his ‘old friend’, CIA director William J Burns (left), during a national security team meeting in the White House.
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With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
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New Zealanders fighting in Ukraine are facing significant risks, with no official support from the government. The fighters’ motives may be noble but are they muddying the waters?
Women and children separate grain from soil in Malawi.
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Food insecurity is increasing in Australia and around the world with women most affected.
ECOWAS struggles with ensuring mobility within its region.
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Rules to regulate the free movement of people in the ECOWAS countries must be adapted to local realities.
Lachlan Murdoch, far left, with his father Rupert and brother James in 2014.
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Australia’s defamation laws have been inadequate for years - as this case starkly shows.
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The far-right claims mainstream media is the “enemy of the people” but they are happy to use mainstream platforms to spread their message.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki testifies at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry on Aug. 23, 2022.
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Discussions of political interference are largely misdirected because they distract from the necessary and warranted criticisms of the RCMP’s mishandling of the mass shooting.
The Coalition’s carpark announcements before the 2019 election are among the best-known cases of pork-barrelling.
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Ministerial discretion should be tightly controlled whenever millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi making a speech at the AU headquarters.
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The commitment of African leaders remains the greatest obstacle to African renaissance and development. Consultation with citizens is also called for.
President Macky Sall salutes supporters after he was named candidate for the 2012 presidential elections.
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Senegal enters uncharted territory as for the first time in contemporary history, no single coalition won an outright majority in parliament.
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Legislation must be created to ensure that Scott Morrison’s secretive ministerial power grab never happens again
Paramilitary police and soldiers patrol ballot boxes at Tari airport, Southern Highlands, PNG.
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More needs to be done to improve the violence and corruption that are still endemic in the PNG electoral process.
Protesters in Lagos register their displeasure against rising insecurity.
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Nigeria’s next president must take these steps to redeem the country’s endangered national security.
U.S. banana growers heavily influenced several Central American governments in the early 20th century.
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The US grows hardly any tropical fruit. So why are politicians and political commentators saying the country is at risk of devolving into a banana republic?
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Disinformation is a plague infecting all forms of media, but efforts abound to control it both here in Australia and around the world.
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The re-introduction of an immigration detention bill could bring Australia into compliance with international human rights law.
Atiku Abubakar.
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There are hurdles in the way of Nigeria’s major opposition party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.