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

An Administrative Review Tribunal decision reveals that the government is already implementing NDIS access restrictions it promised would not take effect for more than a year.

With only weeks to go until elections in Israel, an unrelenting stream of well-sourced, detailed stories has suddenly appeared, documenting multiple failures by Benjamin Netanyahu to heed warnings of ...

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Vietnamese Australian anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 September

Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.

Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage. “Pollution does not recognise political borders,” said the Zalul Environmental Association, an Israeli NGO dedicated to protecting the country’s seas and shores. “The discharge of untreated sewage from the Gaza Strip into the sea is contributing to the worsening crisis affecting the Israeli desalination facilities. The wastewater contains nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which feed microalgae and cyanobacteria and may intensify their blooms.” Continue reading...

The laws seek to formally withdraw Australia’s support for overseas atrocities, ensuring we do not “fund, arm or invest in conduct that violates the very principles of international law”.

The extreme right has learned to navigate Germany’s strict laws on extremist symbols

Election of rightwing senator – once called a ‘vote-losing machine’ – as state president in South Australia takes party further from the centre

It's a holiday hotspot drawing millions of tourists a year but the death of a teenage girl has highlighted the dangers of Pattaya's sex industry.

The new world struggles to be born

Canberra community members are concerned that the closure of a local NDIS program does not bode well ahead of looming federal cuts to the scheme.

It can be tempting to blame grievance politics or the rise of One Nation for the tenor of current debate, but these are symptoms of a deeper malaise When the immigration minister, Tony Burke, approached the National Press Club podium on Thursday, the eyes of every migrant in the country would have been fixed on him. But, in fact, Burke’s address was a message for all working people across the country – and a signal of the times ahead for all of us. The past 12 months have seen all sides of politics cohere around the consensus articulated in the introduction to Burke’s address by the press club’s president, Tom Connell: “there is furious agreement over a need for a cut to immigration.” The only difference across the political spectrum is in the detail: who deserves to be cut, and who is valuable or otherwise deserving enough to remain. Continue reading...

The second set of raids on Oxford Street's licensed venues has raised concerns of a homophobic return to the police targeting LGBTIQA+ communities.

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

Guardian Australia analysis adds to concerns over the federal scheme, which is to be the subject of a Senate inquiry

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives