20+ hour, 21+ min ago  (790+ words) Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures show how political loyalty can be converted into money, access and market value while US institutions struggle to restrain conflicts of interest. Like many people outside the United States, I admire much of what it represents: open…...

19+ hour, 25+ min ago  (745+ words) The Trump administration’s campaign against the International Criminal Court is a direct attack on accountability. Australia must not abandon its Rome Statute obligations. Some commentators around the world think Marco Rubio, the corrupt Trump Administration’s Secretary of State, is slightly…...

19+ hour, 55+ min ago  (260+ words) Sudan’s genocide is receiving too little attention. The US must pressure the UAE to end its support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and help deliver urgent humanitarian aid. This is the year 2026. One might have hoped that, after thousands…...

20+ hour, 6+ min ago  (435+ words) Ninety years after the Spanish Civil War began, the Australians who fought for the Spanish Republic remain largely excluded from official remembrance. During the Second World War, more than one million Australians fought in the global struggle against fascism. These…...

20+ hour, 26+ min ago  (519+ words) The essence of a liberal democracy is to let people whose lifestyles we disapprove of remain equal before the law. Such restraint is needed in the debate across Africa about LGBT rights. One of the surprises I had living in…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (686+ words) Encounters with two Vietnamese men shaped by war raise an uncomfortable question for Australia’s older, wealthier generation: what are our priorities now? Growing up, the Vietnam War was on the black-and-white TV, largely incomprehensible to this 5-12-year old (1966, and Long…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (549+ words) The Australian conversation about AI has settled around risk and regulation. Its economic promise will turn less on the rules Australia writes than on the capability built around the technology. Much of Australia’s discussion about artificial intelligence now runs through…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (291+ words) Australia’s unfinished economic reform goal should be to make Australian capitalism work better by directing capital towards productive enterprise and away from dependence on asset inflation. With the 2020s being seen as Australia’s weakest decade for living standards since Federation have…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (210+ words) Markets are often treated as if they naturally maximise public benefit, but they can just as easily reward speculation, weak care, low wages and ecological destruction. Mark Diesendorf recently recounted eight economic myths that are helping to destroy our future....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (333+ words) Diaries, videos and personal testimony can cut through denial and abstraction, forcing the world to recognise the individual lives caught inside genocide. There are few tools left for a young girl coping with the reality of surviving a genocide, and…...