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Back to SearchFrancesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries
'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories,…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Forgiveness: do we need more or less?
The Pope forgave the man who shot him in the stomach. Erika Kirk forgave the assassin who killed her husband, Charlie. But what, exactly, is forgiveness? When we forgive someone, what exactly are we …
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Reflecting on the power Patrick White's prose still holds today
Patrick White was Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for novels like Voss, The Tree of Man, and The Vivisector. His work explored spiritual isolation, human cruelty, and the Austra…
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One hundreds years of Australian anthropology: what have we learned?
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, with a strained culture of its own: its practitioners have often been involved in colonial control of native populations. Australia's first anthropology d…
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Locals disrupt Trump's deportation blitz in Chicago
On the streets of Chicago, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are busy arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants as part of "Operation Midway Blitz". But communities…
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Ian Dunt's UK: Prince Andrew fallout and British Labour loses big in Wales
King Charles wants Prince Andrew out of the Royal Lodge, as allegations against Andrew resurface in Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir. The Prince continues to deny those allegations. Meanwhile, th…
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Can AI help us talk to whales?
If AI language models can "learn" human languages, and translate between them, could AI also help us to decode what animals are saying? Off the coast of Dominica, a Caribbean island known for its spe…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Indonesian surveillance company tracking phones all over the world
International investigative journalism outfit ‘Lighthouse Reporter’ found a vast archive of data on the deep web containing thousands of phone numbers, emails and locations of people all over the wor…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: why does the Coalition want to split the environment bill in two?
As parliament resumes, Labor has a big bill to push through: changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, which has been widely criticised as no longer fit for purp…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
The ghost of Stalin
Josef Stalin left this earthly realm on March 5, 1953. The circumstances of his death were deeply chaotic – his guards and inner circle were too afraid to open the door to his room, and he was found …
Published on 3 weeks ago