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Back to SearchA warning from Nobel Laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz.
In 1966, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz wrote his PhD thesis on inequality. Almost sixty years later, after decades of research, numerous books, and international acclaim, he has led a new report for…
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Gareth Evans says Australia should lead nuclear arms control talks
As Russia and the US both resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans has written an essay for Australian Foreign Affairs Magazine arg…
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Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down
The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn paints a vastly different picture of…
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Australia's (very, very) early computer: CSIRAC
The University of Melbourne is celebrating 70 years of Australian computer classes, which were first taught on CSIRAC, the earliest computer ever built in Australia and the oldest surviving computer …
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Brutal police killings in Rio's favelas shock the world as Brazil hosts climate summit
On October 28, conservative Governor of Rio, Cláudio Castro, ordered over 2,500 police officers and soldiers to storm the city’s favelas at dawn. The goal was to capture leaders of the notorious Coma…
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Ian Dunt's UK: Trump threatens to sue the BBC
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for 1.6 million dollars, over an inaccurate clip aired on its flagship documentary program, Panorama. Despite the editing mistake, Ian Dunt a…
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The mysterious lost footage of Whitlam's dismissal
Fifty years on, the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on November 11th 1975 remains the most dramatic day in Australian political history. But mysteriously, there is little surviving news foo…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Gough Whitlam's statue and net zero fallout continues
As the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam dismissal approaches, Prime Minister Albanese announces the commissioning of a statue of Gough Whitlam for Canberra. And the Liberal Party looks likely to drop…
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The fight for gold at the heart of Sudan’s genocide
Rebel forces in Sudan have captured the city of el-Fasher in a coup so violent the blood stains could be seen from space. The RSF rebel army is led by Commander "Hemedti” Hamdan, whose family has dee…
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Peter FitzSimons on the life of Weary Dunlop
The war medic Edward 'Weary' Dunlop became legendary in the POW camps of World War II for his courage and leadership, including putting his body between a patient and a Japanese bayonet. From the foo…
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