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Back to SearchBruce Shapiro's America, Vanuatu deals with multiple earthquakes and are book blurbs just an incestuous love-fest?
Members of the US Congress are wondering whether President Donal Trump will simply ignore the courts and and precipitate a constitutional crisis. How…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the War Memorial refurbished, and the shipwreck that devastated Darwin
Laura Tingle looks at what role the independents could play in a minority Coalition government. And a look back at the shipwreck that devastated earl…
1 year ago
Political chaos in South Korea and the poet who broke taboos
A declaration of martial law in South Korea, lasting six hours, has created the country’s biggest constitutional crisis since the late 1980s, and the…
1 year ago
Life in the shadow of Mussolini and how white supremacy infiltrated the wellness industry
The small town of Predappio is Italy’s premier neo-fascist tourist site, with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathisers descending on the town an…
1 year ago
Ian Dunt's UK, the economics of degrowth, and how relevant are the Oscars?
Calls to "stop the boats" have returned to UK Parliament. What is the degrowth movement, and can it really challenge the global economic order? Plus …
1 year ago
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the invention of jaywalking, and unearthing Roman mosaics
Outrage in parliament as the Opposition shuts down Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during Holocaust speech. Why some US cities are decriminalising jayw…
1 year ago
The wild and talented poet Dorothy Porter and re-thinking privacy
The late Australian poet Dorothy Porter is best known for her verse novel The Monkey's Mask. But her work ranged across many ouvres. Her early life a…
1 year ago
Trump's plan to 'take over' Gaza, Brazil's feud with tech titans, and Antarctica's tourism boom
ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons digests US President Donald Trump's extraordinary declaration that the United States will 'take over' the Gaza S…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bruce Shapiro's America, Belarus’ secret program to undermine the EU, and moral panic over female cyclists
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's tariff backtrack. How Belarus is weaponising migrants to destabilise the EU. And moral panic over cycling women in Victorian…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Trump and Netanyahu discuss the West Bank, and Australia's love of cinema
Peter Dutton's political point-scoring on national security and antisemitism. Will Benjamin Netanyahu get what he wants from the second phase of the …
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