Labor-Liberal has made Big Australia central to economic policy. After COVID froze mass migration, Morrison and Albanese rushed it back, bigger than ever.

At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of sanctions upon individuals deemed hostile to free ...

For the Democrats to succeed, however, they should not try to tackle all the long-term issues, however critical they may be, including climate change, infrastructure modernization, public transit, ...

In July, the Myanmar military enacted the Law on the Protection of Multiparty Democratic General Elections, which criminalizes criticism of the election or election workers. Under this law, acts as ...

Ananda Wong is a journalist and Asia Pacific commentator. He contributes to multiple news outlets and blogs at Ananda Wong.

By now most people will be familiar with the discredited but formerly acclaimed "Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian Aborigine", Bruce Pascoe. Pascoe's claims to Aboriginality have been publicly refuted by ...

Following the massacre of Jewish people and others on Bondi Beach, there have been calls for the Albanese government to appoint a royal commission into not just the Bondi attack, but also antisemitism ...

As we reflect on and grieve the Bondi tragedy, it is time to look through any supposed nuanced distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism and see it for what it is: a hatred of Jews. It is time ...

The UN - abandoning the two-state solution and adopting HKOPS to replace it - remains the clearest path to peace. The author ...

The largest Islamic democracy in the world is Indonesia. It works partly because of the secular doctrine of Pancasila, but there are periodic pressures around blasphemy laws, locally inspired sharia ...

As we wind down to the dawn of a new year, it's worth recapping how Labor has delivered "net zero" on some major energy promises.

On the political stage under the spotlight of close public attention, the Coalition's performances since the 2025 election have not just been amateurish, but increasingly its members have acted like ...