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May 13, 2022Election special: Who should you vote for?
Undecided about who to vote for in the upcoming federal election? Take our quiz to find out your least-worst option!
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Politics
May 13, 2022Election special: Who should you vote for?
Undecided about who to vote for in the upcoming federal election? Take our quiz to find out your least-worst option!
Culture
April 28, 2022Matt Reeves’s blockbuster is the best Batman film yet
Concentrated on Robert Pattinson’s psychologically coherent caped crusader, ‘The Batman’ is a cautionary tale about state failure
Politics
April 13, 2022Will the drover’s dog have his day?
Without a spirit of reform, Labor under Anthony Albanese is little more than Liberal-lite
Culture
April 4, 2022‘Straight to the pool room’: 25 years of ‘The Castle’
Its one-liners are firmly entrenched in the national lexicon, but, a quarter of a century later, what does the classic film tell us about Australia?
Politics
March 18, 2022A short history of neoliberalism in South Australia
After decades of privatisation under both Labor and Liberal governments, and on the eve of a state election, where is the reform agenda for South Australia?
Politics
March 3, 2022Preferential treatment
Polls have for months been predicting a Labor landslide at the next election, but what role might the United Australia Party play when it comes to preferences?
Society
March 1, 2022House of the rising sum
COVID has not slowed Australia’s property crisis, with more people locked out of the housing market and more left homeless
Politics
February 11, 2022Faith no more
In withdrawing support for the religious discrimination bill, the Christian right showed what it wanted all along: the freedom to discriminate against others
Politics
February 4, 2022Why hasn’t the government recognised the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
The decades-long protest is a symbol of Aboriginal sovereignty, which has been vigorously resisted by the Australian government
Politics
January 19, 2022Marshall law
Premier Steven Marshall claimed South Australia was “COVID-ready” when the state opened borders just as Omicron was emerging, but it now faces the same issues as the eastern states
Politics
December 10, 2021What would a minority government look like?
Might Albanese be pushed by a crossbench of climate-focused independents or Morrison yoked to the rampaging anti-vaxxer far right?
Society
November 25, 2021Cricketing institutions are on a sticky wicket
Tim Paine’s sexting scandal reveals more about institutional failures than personal ones
Culture
December 1, 2021A homemade algorithm chooses every book I read
How a monumental to-read list turned into a spreadsheet that randomly selects books
Politics
November 10, 2021Can we ever hope for a new Clean Energy Act?
Ten years after the high-water mark of cooperation between Labor and the Greens, why haven’t the “progressive” parties worked together since then?
Politics
October 27, 2021A short history of anti-corruption commissions
Why are state and territory corruption watchdogs increasingly under attack?