The Albanese government is treating the promises of AI and data centre investment like a digital mining boom. How does it sit within Labor's broader social project?

The Albanese government is treating the promises of AI and data centre investment like a digital mining boom. How does it sit within Labor's broader social project?

The national disability agency is referring families that complain about support levels to child protection services, an autism...

People tell of lives changed beyond recognition after the 7 October attacks by Hamas three years ago and the subsequent Israeli offensive

by Jonathan Kuttab Correction: In my last blog, I lamented that only 5% of US citizens owned a passport. I was mistaken. While that was the figure in 1990,  the current figure is 50%. I apologi...

No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.

🚨 27 Days to the Midterms 🚨

Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says

Viral videos and online commentary have alleged that U.S. forces quietly reclaimed Afghanistan’s most notorious military base.

Apartheid, genocide, and settler-colonialism create a clear dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed. But dehumanization happens on all sides and all of it fuels the very systems that create it.

“We are here because human dignity matters.

Ron Kuipers reflects on Matthew D. Taylor’s Defying Tyrants, asking what it means to follow a colonized God without repeating Christianity’s imperial betrayals.

A commitment to inclusion can help majority White congregations feel virtuous—while avoiding costly...

🚨 28 Days to the Midterms 🚨

DEFYING TYRANTS (out today!) is my contribution.

Lee Hanson says she has been a regular at the shop since it opened…

Guides say bookings have plummeted in 2026 amid renovations, closings and a charged political climate.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has expressed disappointment at the Liberal-National Coalition’s announcement that it would halve the refugee intake

Defence spending blew out by more than any other area of government spending last year. But will the government cut our most wasteful area of expenditure? Unlikely.

International leaders visit Tuvalu as part of climate talks co-hosted by Australia ahead of Cop31 conference

Democratic candidates are bringing up faith and religion more often on the campaign trail in 2026.

Across American campuses and communities, I felt a growing openness to a politics of partnership, shared struggle, and collective liberation.

In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, I wrote about Ella Baker’s rejection of top-down models of leadership and how the famed organizer encouraged a patient, inclusive deliberative process.

U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

Marjorie Taylor Greene also attacks Hegseth for ‘using God’s name in vain.’

He went to prison for insider trading but Oliver Curtis is about to be the source of one of Australia's largest share market floats.

Why everyone is wrong about religious decline

A new model offers a template for just and transparent accounting of loss and damage.

Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

It’s been there all along...