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Trump’s plans for the Middle East

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When US President-elect Donald Trump claimed victory last week, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the first to congratulate him.T...

‘A big red flag’: Labor accused of pork-barrelling

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Albanese government has been accused of pork-barrelling after an analysis of $1.35 billion in grants found almost 90 per cent of seats that Labor ...

Donald Trump and the future of climate action

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The re-election of Donald Trump is likely to have alarming consequences for the climate. He was, after all, elected on a promise to “drill, baby, dr...

'The mighty and powerful Joe Rogan'

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump took the stage to claim victory in Palm Beach, Florida, he was joined by a football team sized contingent of family and friends, inc...

Read This: Tim Winton’s Got the Juice

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is more or less impossible to imagine Australian literature of the past half century without Tim Winton. From his debut, An Open Swimmer to his epi...

The ‘secret’ proposal that could fast-track fracking

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After the Country Liberal Party came into power in the Northern Territory, they scrapped a number of key portfolios.Among them was the climate change ...

Donald Trump is back

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the US election began to rapidly slip away from Kamala Harris, it became clear that the presidential candidate wasn’t going to speak at her elect...

If Trump loses, will Fox News admit it?

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the eve of the American election, polls say Harris and Trump are neck and neck. Of course, Donald Trump says that’s not true.It’s nothing new f...

The end of truth telling in Queensland

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the first things David Crisafulli did when he became premier of Queensland was order the state’s Truth-telling inquiry to stop immediately.Th...

Why the Qantas saga is ‘classic Albanese’

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The prime minister’s relationship with former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, and whether he likes a free upgrade, has been the talk of Canberra, prompted by...

Read This: Robbie Arnott’s Restless Mind

02 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In just three books Robbie Arnott has established himself as a writer to trust. Flames (2018), The Rain Heron (2022) and Limberlost (2022) were all ra...

Israel's war with Hezbollah inflames civil war tensions

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a street in downtown Beirut there’s a five-storey building – a derelict hotel.It was empty for years, until recently, when hundreds of displace...

Anti-corruption boss accused of ‘officer misconduct’

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme handed down its findings, the commissioner in charge went to great lengths to refer six individuals...

The truth about Trump's “border chaos” claims

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, just over a week from the election, Donald Trump took to the stage with a vision for the first day of...

The secret deals between the tax office and Australia’s billionaires

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When West Australian mining billionaire Chris Ellison was accused of a decade of tax evasion, his lawyers responded by trying to cut a deal with the A...

Elon Musk's million dollar giveaways

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Elon Musk took the stage at a pro-Trump rally in Pennsylvania to announce he would start giving a million dollars a day to randomly chosen people...

Read This: Melanie Cheng, Superstitious Doctor

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Melanie Cheng began her writing career as an author of short stories. Her first collection, Australia Day, was published in 2017 to much acclaim. Her ...

King Charles, Lidia Thorpe and the pursuit of justice

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

King Charles’ first visit to Australia as monarch laid bare a lot of unfinished business.Moments after the king sat down following an address to the...

How abortion became an election issue in Queensland

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The fight over abortion in Queensland had seemed settled. It was decriminalised in 2018 and has since attained wide public support.But with Katter’s...

The men who survived Kinchela Boys Home

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a group of Stolen Generations survivors visited a site from their childhood that holds a lot of painful memories: the notorious Kinchela Ab...

The art of the deal: Malcolm Turnbull on Donald Trump

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Malcolm Turnbull was prime minister, he made a call that made the then president of the United States very, very angry.Donald Trump called it the...

What Yahya Sinwar’s death means for the war in the Middle East

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is a pivotal moment in the war in the Middle East. Sinwar, a mastermind of the October 7 attacks, was top of I...

Read This: Uses for Ben Shewry

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are few people in this country as obsessed with understanding the cultural and social potential of Australian cuisine as New Zealand-born chef B...

Why Labor’s last ‘freedom fighters’ are all old men

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The government led by Anthony Albanese is a timid troupe of shivers looking for a spine to run up.That’s the assessment from the Labor wise men who ...

'Australia’s most hated man': Inside the Bruce Lehrmann appeal

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer Zali Burrows, he is “arguably Australia’s most hated man”.Burrows also told a federal court that her clie...

This is Alice Springs: Mparntwe

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alice Springs is littered with “For Sale” signs as those who can afford it are packing up and leaving. Punitive government curfews made daily life...

This is Alice Springs: The coppers

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Police are everywhere in Alice Springs. You see them driving pursuit vehicles and caged vans on the streets, or stationed outside the bottle shop chec...

This is Alice Springs: Children of the Intervention

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From afar, Alice Springs is a whirlpool of myth and truth. A town with competing interests and few solutions, marked by chaos and decades of governmen...

Read This: Malcolm Knox Finds Comedy in Toxic Friendships

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Malcolm Knox began his career as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, back in the 90s. His breakout was in 2004 when, as literary editor, he br...

The politics of Peter Dutton's position on Israel

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The war in the Middle East is dominating Australian politics.Opposition Leader Peter Dutton spent the week attacking Prime Minister Anthony Albanese –...

The almond room killings

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A five-minute drive from the cliff where Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly murdered Afghan farmer Ali Jan, there is a small mud-brick room used for storing ...

Drone warfare and poison pies: The frontline in the Russia-Ukraine war

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For two-and-a-half years, Ukraine has been fighting Russia with the goal of “total victory” – to not only beat President Vladimir Putin’s forc...

Why Plibersek’s "nature positive" plans won’t fix the environment

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Protecting Australia’s environment is a matter of urgency – or at least that’s the message the Albanese government campaigned on two and a half ...

How Israel will strike back against Iran

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One year on from the October 7 attacks against Israel, the region is bracing for more war. It seems almost certain Israel will launch a retaliatory a...

Read This: Charlotte Wood Thinks Restraint Is Underrated

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Wood became a mainstay in Australia’s literary firmament in 2016 following the release of her award-winning novel, The Natural Way of Thin...

Exclusive: States abandon federal terrorism ‘clusterf--k’

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a greater than 50 per cent chance that there will be a terrorist attack – or a planned attack – in Australia in the next year.That’s t...

Midwest and masculinity: The Vance-Walz debate

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As much as they would hate to admit it, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris fit the definition of “coastal elite”. The United States presidential ...

Inside the Coles and Woolworths 'fake' discounts case

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and Reddit from citizen journalists archiving Coles and Woolworths' published prices and noticing some ...

A report from the border of Lebanon and Syria

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Beirut over the weekend, Michelle Jasmin Dimasi felt the blast from her apartment. Michell...

How the assassination of Hezbollah’s leader will reshape the Middle East

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The leader of Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.Hassan Nasrallah led the group for more than 30 years, building it into a po...

Read This: Michael Ondaatje Is Learning Everything Again

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje recently released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje...

Inside the Greens' interest rate demands

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Reserve Bank should lower interest rates, and if they don’t, the government should make them, according to the Greens.Their spokesperson for eco...

What 'tough on crime' means in Queensland

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal National Party has been in the political wilderness in Queensland for most of the past three decades. But in a month’s time that’s lik...

‘Muzzling’ advocates: the Albanese government’s reliance on NDAs

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In more than 30 years of lobbying for gambling reforms, Tim Costello says no government has tried to silence him through the use of a legally binding ...

Easey Street and ‘the boy with the knife’

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you ask a Melbourne local, almost all of them would have heard of the 1977 Easey Street murders.In one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killing...

TikTok politics: Very demure, very Dutton

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Dutton is now on TikTok, and his first post was about as inspiring as you might imagine. It’s shot in an office, he’s wearing a suit, and he...

Read This: Friends, Mary Beard Fans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Even if you’re not an obsessive Ancient Rome aficionado, you may have heard of Mary Beard. With more than 20 books to her name, including the wildly...

Fake artwork and discrimination: The MONA Ladies Lounge saga

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a court case earlier this year, an art installation at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art that was designed to playfully poke at the historic and...

‘They don’t want us here’: an asylum seeker’s shattered education dreams

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to study medicine and become a doctor.She arrived in Australia in 2013 when she w...

University bosses and their million-dollar salaries

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Bill Shorten finally gave up his hopes of ever becoming prime minister, one door closed and another, much more lucrative, door opened. In his ne...

Jim Chalmers, Angus Taylor and the future of the Reserve Bank

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jim Chalmers said that interest rate hikes were “smashing the economy” he was either stating the obvious or starting a war, depending on who ...

Inside the secret world of an American militia

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The militia movement in the United States has a long and bloody history. In the aftermath of January 6, it was buoyed by Donald Trump’s praise of t...

Read This: Louise Milligan Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Star investigative journalist Louise Milligan has spent her career working on some of the most high-profile criminal cases in Australia. This incredib...

Australia’s first national newspaper – for prisoners, by prisoners

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When former inmate Daniel Vansetten heard about the idea of a national newspaper, produced for prisoners and by prisoners, he jumped at the opportunit...

Trump v Harris: two visions of America

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The United States presidential campaign so far has largely been based on fashioning public perceptions: with the Democrats painting Donald Trump as a ...

Why Labor wants to fight the election on nuclear power

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Dutton’s first major promise when he became opposition leader was to build nuclear power plants.It was a curious idea with no cost attached an...

Inside Labor’s courting of the teal independents

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Politics was changed at the last election in a way the major parties are still grappling with.Now, the record crossbench it delivered looks set to gro...

Has Albanese’s NACC been a failure?

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Albanese government’s long-promised National Anti-Corruption Commission was met with high hopes that it would weed out corruption within our ins...

Read This: We Visited Gerald Murnane at the Goroke Golf Course

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gerald Murnane doesn’t have readers, he has acolytes. The New Yorker described him as “the reclusive giant of Australian letters”. He’s writte...

Why Bill Shorten is quitting politics

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Shorten has wanted to be the prime minister since he was a teenager. Yesterday he finally gave up that ambition, announcing his resignation from...

The scientific controversy over head injuries in sport

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At a Senate committee last year, the NRL and Football Australia acknowledged the link between head injuries in contact sports and the neurodegenerativ...

Thomas Mayo on continuing the fight for recognition

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although Australians voted resoundingly against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Thomas Mayo – one of the Voice’s key campaigners – has not gi...

Why trans people need to be counted in the census

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The census is meant to reflect the country back to us – to give vital data on who makes up Australia. But this week it’s become a political landm...

Is this the end of the Jacqui Lambie Network?

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been almost a decade since Jacqui Lambie dramatically quit the Palmer United Party.  Since then, she’s become a political force in Canberra...

Read This: Miranda July Wrote the Book She Couldn’t Find

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Writer, artist, and filmmaker Miranda July has a devoted – even rabid – following, through her writing, her work on the screen, and her collaborat...

Inside the ‘white hands on black art’ saga

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The most damaging controversy the Indigenous art sector has experienced in years started with a video.The Ngura Pulka exhibition was set to open in Ju...

Tanya Plibersek and the billion-dollar gold mine

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a tough few weeks for Jim Beyer, the CEO of Australia’s third largest goldmining company, Regis Resources.The multi-billion dollar McPhi...

Jess Hill on how to stop domestic violence

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jess Hill hasn’t been sleeping much lately. For the past three months, she’s been working on a plan to try to end violence against women and child...

Are Hezbollah and Israel gearing up for all out war?

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was the biggest escalation between Hezbollah and Israel since October 7.On Sunday, Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel whil...

‘We’re always going to fight’: Victoria’s groundbreaking path to Treaty

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After the resounding defeat of last year’s referendum on the Voice to Parliament, the path towards Truth and Treaty has appeared to be on shaky grou...

Read This: It’s Not Roxane Gay’s Job to Make People Happy

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Roxane Gay is a prominent American author, professor, and cultural critic known for her unflinching honesty, quick wit, and razor-sharp intellect. She...

Jon Faine on why the ABC's boss just quit

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ABC’s Managing Director David Anderson announced his shock resignation yesterday afternoon, after being reappointed for his second term in the r...

Elon Musk’s secret plan to buy Trump the presidency

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022, Elon Musk said Donald Trump was “too old” to be president, and Donald Trump called Musk a “bullshit artist”.In the relatively short t...

QANTAS crash: How Alan Joyce lost a $9 million bonus

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Joyce was once hailed as a saviour of perhaps Australia’s most iconic business.The former CEO of QANTAS was championed by his board and well kn...

Peter Dutton's Palestinian ban is textbook Peter Dutton

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The treatment or mistreatment of refugees fleeing to Australia has been the wellspring of Australian politics for almost a quarter of a century.  Th...

After the 'no' vote: Advance’s plan to destroy the Greens

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The hard-right group behind the “No” campaign, Advance, is amassing a multi-million dollar war chest to take down its next opponent: the Australia...

Read This: All Bruce Pascoe Needs Is a Biro

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was 2014 when Bruce Pascoe went from being a prolific, yet relatively unknown writer, to public enemy #1 in Australia’s culture wars. That was th...

‘It’s not 1800-phone-a-friend’: the failed promise of therapy apps

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I didn’t have a boyfriend to text anymore so might as well text a therapist,” a millennial podcast host tells her audience while recommending t...

Linda Reynolds, Brittany Higgins and the rise of political defamation

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brittany Higgins has now been at the centre of three court cases.First, there was the criminal trial of Bruce Lehrmann - which was aborted with no fin...

Inside the illegal underground schools for Afghan girls

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three years ago the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan. From his new home in Adelaide, Australia, Hazara human rights activist and photographer ...

Labor’s plan to put young people into aged care

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neale Radley was in his early 40s when he dived off a houseboat and hit a sandbar, becoming a high-needs quadriplegic. With no family members able to ...

Imane Khelif and the scrutiny of female athletes’ bodies

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This year’s Olympics has been phenomenal for women in sport.Paris 2024 also set a milestone as the first Olympics to achieve full gender parity on t...

Read This: Eric Beecher Is a Media Mongrel

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with journalist, editor and media proprietor Eric Beecher about his new...

Is Australia failing to teach kids to read?

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been called a forever war: the fight over how to teach children to read.For decades, an outdated method has lingered in Australian classrooms a...

Battle of the VPs: Tim Walz v JD Vance

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the weeks since he was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, some of JD Vance’s past remarks have resurfaced. He is now at the centre of a ...

Who decides the future of Gaza?

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hardly any foreign journalists have been into Gaza since Israel’s bombings began. The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes is one of t...

‘Find some courage’: David Pocock on Labor’s flawed gambling laws

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

They’re hard to miss: the number of gambling ads flooding our screens and devices everyday. They’ve become such an inescapable part of sport that ...

The Train family murders: A new age of radicalisation

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was supposed to be a routine call out when four police officers attended a property in regional Queensland just before Christmas in 2022.The young ...

Read This: Alexis Wright Is the 2024 Miles Franklin Winner

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with the winner of the 2024 Miles Franklin Award, Alexis Wright. Her ep...

'I have eyes, but I don't see': The community groups helping refugees settle

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At Sydney Airport on a muggy night in November 2022, a group of volunteers from Sydney’s northern beaches crowd inside arrivals waiting to greet a f...

The end of ‘Twiggy’ Forrest's hydrogen dream

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t so long ago that renewables pundits glowingly described hydrogen as the “Swiss Army knife” of renewable technologies, able to be turne...

Inside Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years jail for sex trafficking crimes, journalist and writer Lucia Osborne-Crowley was there in the cou...

These PwC executives still haven't been held accountable

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was one of the biggest corporate scandals the country has ever seen when it was revealed that PwC had used confidential government information to e...

Zoe Daniel on what it costs to win an election

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The historic teal wave at the last election delivered the two major parties their worst electoral results ever.So, perhaps it’s no surprise that the...

Read This: How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our sister podcast, host Michael Williams speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. She shares her life sentence ...

'I sued the government over climate – but I'm not done'

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Climate activist Katta O’Donnell sued the Australian government for failing to disclose how much climate change would impact the value of government...

Why Labor supports private school tax breaks

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, Mike Seccombe has been looking into the divide between Australia’s richest and poorest schools – to find out why this gap keeps widening...

The executive, the mine and the corruption referral

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, there are two towns.One is home to a thriving economy. It has a golf course, cinema and tennis courts. ...

Why Biden pulled out: 'Money is the mother's milk of politics'

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With just over a hundred days to go until the US election, Joe Biden has announced he’s dropping out of the presidential race.In a letter posted to ...

The truth about men who kill women

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

News stories about violence against women have been coming hard and fast these past few weeks. These stories of the women — and sometimes children ...