Seven of the nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as human pressure on the Earth accelerates, yet Australia continues to expand fossil fuel extraction while presenting itself as a climate l...

Cobalt mining in the Congo exposes both the hidden human cost of technologies we rely on and the limits of a news culture that directs our attention towards some crises while leaving others almost inv...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, which celebrated its 20th Anniversary recently. He discusses how Julian Assange is doing 2 years aft

Pauline Hanson promised to take on the elites, but her relationship with Gina Rinehart raises questions about whose interests One Nation is serving.

One Nation leader also seen with Gina Rinehart – and many of her talking points align with mining magnate

Since China declined to radically accelerate multipolarity by defying the US’ sanctions against Russia and cutting Ukraine off from drone-related sales, it’s poetic justice for Russia to radically exa...

The Coalition’s migration plan promises dramatic cuts to net overseas migration and the temporary visa population, but key measures are inconsistent, administratively weak and in some cases beyond gov...

Labor’s primary vote is weakening while Green preferences remain crucial in close contests. Albanese’s hostility to the Greens may become increasingly difficult to sustain.

Australia’s Cocos Islands territory is being converted to support US military operations.

Migration is doing much of the demographic heavy lifting outside Australia’s major cities. Cutting it without a serious regional population strategy risks accelerating decline in smaller communities.

While Pakistan’s image in their eyes as a fake terrorist-exporting military dictatorship lorded over by a single ethnic group is a caricature, there’s nevertheless some truth to it.

David Shoebridge takes on Labor over public supermarkets, AUKUS and Palestine – but can the Greens turn political discontent into electoral power?

David Shoebridge takes on Labor over public supermarkets, AUKUS and Palestine – but can the Greens turn political discontent into electoral power?

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

Higher interest rates hit younger mortgage holders far harder than everyone else, making monetary policy both inequitable and inefficient. Inflation control should be spread more fairly across the eco...

Massive AI infrastructure projects may bring jobs and investment, but regional development should be judged by what communities control, retain and can build long after construction ends.

Massive AI infrastructure projects may bring jobs and investment, but regional development should be judged by what communities control, retain and can build long after construction ends.

At this sensitive moment in Russian-Pakistani relations, diplomatic and expert dialogue is urgently required, not more social media hysteria.

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NSW Premier Chris Minns is easily offended and wants to prosecute one cultural group over another because of what they wear.

The silence in Canberra over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela and the war on Iran rings loudly. Legislate the Red Lines Package.

While the public debate on housing shortages is as ill-informed as ever, one solution is not just obvious, but been well and truly tested.

Thousands of patients are stuck in hospital beds in a system that focuses more on who pays than on what benefits the unwell.

Three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, the consequences of a decision driven by siege, settlement expansion and assaults on Al-Aqsa are still unfolding

The RBA’s interest-rate rise shows a bigger problem: institutions filled with intelligent people who are very good at following the accepted logic but incapable of asking whether that logic is wrong.

As rallies, vigils and marches mark three years of devastation in Gaza, civil society is continuing to show the solidarity and moral clarity that governments, including Australia’s, have failed to pro...

AUKUS has been sold as a plan to strengthen Australia’s defence. Its deeper purpose is to bind Australia permanently into US military strategy against China and make American security dependent on Aus...

The rapid deployment of Pakistan and Turkiye’s military forces to the Gulf of Aden-Red Sea region could presage their use against Sudan’s RSF rebels, Egypt’s historical Ethiopian rival if its countero...

By Francisco Dominguez  -  Sep 26, 2026 Brazil goes to the polls on 4 October 2026 to elect its next president for the 2026-2030 period. Unsurprisingly, as it has done elsewhere in Latin America, the ...

Pick a state to follow the money in its state elections and its U.S. House and Senate races: who raises it, who gives it, and from where.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Charles Finfrock, former CIA senior operations officer and founder and CEO of Vigilance

As investment in artificial intelligence surges, brain health and cognitive skills are deteriorating. The future will depend not only on better machines, but on rebuilding the human intelligence neede...

A new analysis finds strong growth, falling unemployment, poverty and hunger during Lula’s third term, alongside high borrowing costs and mounting household financial pressures.

Pressure on UNRWA and the International Criminal Court points to a much larger transformation in Gaza – one in which existing international institutions are being weakened as new political and adminis...

Bryant Harris is a former journalist with more than a decade covering U.S.

Recent AI security failures may point to something more troubling than runaway intelligence: models becoming highly capable while learning to game narrow goals in brittle and dangerous ways.

Gaza’s privatised aid system concentrated food distribution at militarised sites guarded by private contractors. Humanitarian relief cannot protect civilians if reaching it exposes them to danger.

The Minns government has passed laws that the NSW Aboriginal Land Council attempted to stop being enacted as they undermine the NSW Aboriginal land rights system.

WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill has been keeping the Cook Labor government honest, when it comes to security around Land Forces 2026 and ongoing AUKUS developments.

Law enforcement agencies have poured $400m into Axon's tasers, cameras and cloud vault. AI that writes police reports is next.

Neither Poland nor Lithuania dares to blockade, let alone invade, this Russian exclave.

Russia views nuclear deterrence as a live Kaliningrad option

In a week of threats and walkouts, Australia looked like the pariah at a UNGA in disarray.

Massive US military deployment to the Middle East includes 50,000 troops, F-35s and Marines to pressure Tehran.