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A Pentecostal PM and climate change
Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the bushfire crisis?
The prevention state: Part four
In the face of widespread criticism of strip-searches, NSW Police offers a candid defence of preventative policing: You are meant to fear us.
The prevention state: Part three
As authorities try to prevent crimes that haven’t happened, legislation is increasingly targeting people for whom it was not intended.
On the PM’s catastrophically inept response to Australia’s unprecedented bushfires
The prevention state: Part two
Risk has overtaken wealth as the organising principle of society. But the powers being granted police are not always based on real threats.
The prevention state: Part one
Governments and police are trying to pre-empt danger with legislation. But when the risk is terrorism, there are limits to what is possible.
Not even weather-beaten conservatives can hold back the reality of climate change
Our current aged-care system makes it difficult to deliver care in its truest sense
Were systemic racism and unconscious bias among police officers behind the death in custody of Tanya Day?
The America’s Cup winged keel and the transformation of a nation