13+ hour, 3+ min ago   (537+ words) Australia is struggling to fill critical skills gaps while hundreds of thousands of qualified migrants work below their capabilities. A longer-term migration strategy could help unlock that wasted talent. Australia has a skills shortage. So why are we wasting hundreds…...

12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (416+ words) The Northern Territory’s soaring imprisonment rates, punitive youth justice policies and rejection of expert advice reveal a system failing Indigenous communities and strengthening the case for urgent Commonwealth intervention in justice. We live in a dangerous age in Australia if…...

21+ hour, 34+ min ago   (953+ words) Australia’s population debate cannot be separated from environmental decline, inequality and economic wellbeing. With continued growth adding pressure, zero population growth deserves a serious place in the national conversation. Not one of Australia’s political parties with seats in federal parliament…...

21+ hour, 19+ min ago   (908+ words) Australia needs a larger, self-reliant nuclear-powered submarine force, but AUKUS is too costly, too dependent on the US and too uncertain to deliver it. AUKUS was always a very bad deal, secretly negotiated without expert input. Instead of waiting for…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (180+ words) Australia’s military exports are growing, but parliament and the public still lack clear information about what is being exported, where it goes and how it is used. This is of particular concern as Australia, under successive governments, has set a…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1038+ words) Financial stress is rising and life satisfaction is falling, but Australians’ discontent runs deeper than household budgets to growing distrust in politics and government. These are dog days for Australians, it seems. Some of this despondency is easily explained, but…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (924+ words) New powers will help eSafety investigate whether platforms are enforcing the under-16 social media restrictions, but early evidence suggests the policy’s limits run deeper. In the same week the federal government is preparing to introduce its landmark digital duty of…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (645+ words) A new minimum hourly rate is a major improvement for delivery riders, but platform incentives still reward speed, dangerous conditions and risk-taking. It’s the lunch rush in Sydney’s CBD on a putrid summer day, and I’m hurtling along the George…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (179+ words) Australia has no shortage of wealth, projects or policy targets. What it lacks is a coherent strategy for building the capabilities its future society will need. That is why 2088 is a useful horizon. It lies beyond the careers of today’s…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (903+ words) Hundreds of protesters lined the Sydney Marathon route over the presence of Israeli military-linked participants, calling for scrutiny under Australia’s character laws. Hundreds of Australians carrying Palestinian flags lined sections of the Sydney Marathon route on Sunday 30 August, protesting against…...