12+ hour, 9+ min ago   (675+ words) Winston Peters’ comment to a Chinese-born MP has drawn a formal rebuke from Beijing and exposed the political cost of relying on New Zealand First as Christopher Luxon heads towards a difficult election. The New Zealand foreign minister’s inappropriate dislike…...

12+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1191+ words) Australia’s post-COVID migration surge is receding, but it exposed deep weaknesses in the temporary visa system. Restoring public confidence requires better regulation, clearer pathways and less fixation on a single net migration number. Immigration is among the most controversial issues…...

11+ hour, 59+ min ago   (501+ words) Australians increasingly accept that climate change is real, yet governments continue approving fossil fuel expansion and development in known risk zones. The longer action is delayed, the harder and costlier it becomes. Climate change has been in the public mind…...

12+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1001+ words) The ATO has changed how it treats previously suspended tax debts, raising serious questions about older and vulnerable Australians, retirement savings and whether government has absorbed the human lessons of Robodebt. Australia spent millions on a royal commission into Robodebt....

12+ hour, 25+ min ago   (804+ words) Donald Trump has renewed his threats to take Greenland as a US oil company with ties to his allies makes unauthorised preparations to drill there, raising fears that pressure on the territory is moving beyond rhetoric. As The Guardian reported,…...

12+ hour, 30+ min ago   (660+ words) A remote solar and battery system can replace diesel, but lasting energy independence depends on something less easily shipped – local people with the skills and confidence to maintain it. When I was sent to the Yasawa Islands in Fiji to…...

12+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1218+ words) Gaza’s journalists have reported through the displacement, bereavement and lethal danger of genocide, while colleagues and family members have been killed around them. Their work has become both testimony and a demand for accountability. Our colleagues in Gaza have taken…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (273+ words) Teaching can offer meaning, dignity and a profound sense of responsibility to others. But devotion to the work should never become an excuse for poor pay, insecurity or burnout. So why do people continue to work as teachers despite this…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1734+ words) Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s Regime Change documents the corruption, cruelty and concentration of power defining Donald Trump’s second presidency – and why the international restraints he is dismantling still matter. Not long after the Second World War, the Jewish, German-born…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (911+ words) From a handwritten response in 1911 to the largest single census category today, “no religion” charts a profound shift in Australian identity – shaped by secularisation, migration and changing social attitudes. When I sat down to fill in my first Australian census…...