November 2025
How private job agencies are capturing welfare payments
New data shows that only one-in-nine jobseekers (11.7%) found long term employment via a job agency in the financial year ending in June 2025.
“Everything is uncertain”: Trump-Xi meeting leaves the world on edge
Trump and Xi may have come to a “deal”, but their meeting was a wasted opportunity. Plus: what do Australians think about our relationship with the US?
May 2025
Knee-jerk anti-Chinese redbaiting in Australian elections
In the final days of the campaign, independent MP Monique Ryan and Labor’s housing minister Clare O’Neil faced questions about the support of the Hubei Association for their respective campaigns.
April 2025
Election entrée: more than one in four people living in Australia don’t get counted in elections
Australians are rightfully proud of compulsory voting, which ensures widespread participation in elections.
Election entrée: Parliaments changing the government
It is not just elections that decide who forms government.
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