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, 28+ min ago   (489+ words) Repeated reversals and broken promises are feeding a broader collapse of trust that reaches from economic policy to government transparency and defence. Anthony Albanese has acquired another cross to bear over recent months. It’s one that will dog him, the…...

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…...

12+ hour, 8+ min ago   (747+ words) The case against Mary Kostakidis has been discontinued without any finding that she breached the Racial Discrimination Act, ending a two-year legal battle over political expression and criticism of Israel. ‘Free speech, journalism and democracy in a time of genocide…...

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…...

21+ hour, 39+ min ago   (433+ words) In the final part of a four-part series, expanding Israeli settlements and land acquisition reveal how security, law and political power are reshaping Palestinian life across the occupied West Bank. For a visitor, you soon find out from inhabitants of…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (687+ words) Fossil fuel companies gain access to children through education sponsorships, Barclays eyes opportunities from El Niño, while climate change brings increasingly destructive consequences to communities from the Himalayas to islands. Fossil fuel industry pays for uncontrolled access to children Across…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (280+ words) In part two of a four-part series, daily life in the West Bank reveals how checkpoints, travel restrictions and controls over religious and cultural life shape Palestinians’ experience of Israeli occupation. This was well illustrated later on my trip from…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (121+ words) johnmenadue.com As the global trading system fractures, India can protect its economic and strategic autonomy by expanding trade partnerships, diversifying export markets and resisting deals that constrain relations with other countries. India has signed a flurry of trade deals…...