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I promptly called William (not his real name, et cetera). The place should never have been listed, he explained, as it was ...

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The government’s deal with the Greens on environmental law reform is a political masterclass that leaves the Coalition ...

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Researchers are testing the likelihood of AI turning on us – and the possibilities are at best alarming You can make the case that rapid change always brings existential dread. Or that there’s nothing ...

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Making sense of a new reality and the return of power politics – a Quarterly Essay extract For almost a decade now, the world’s two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

Wahidullah Waissi, Australian ambassador for Afghanistan, at the G7+ Ministerial Meeting in Dili, Timor-Leste, April 2025 As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns ...