The mainstream media pushes the idea that elections are only about deciding which major party forms government. Tony Smith argues that the government-opposition duopoly is wearing thin and preferential voting helps.
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Two University of Sydney academics accused of antisemitism have successfully had the first phase of their case听terminated by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Kerry Smith reports.
Workers in Peru鈥檚 Lima and Callao regions went on strike in protest over the Dina Boluarte government鈥檚 failure to combat rising violence and insecurity, reports Ben Radford.
In this election season, politicians will try to set the rules by which we must play so that they be taken seriously. Tony Smith argues that this is the way they听avoid being genuinely answerable.
Members Coalition, the challenger in the NSW Public Service Association elections, won 12 of the 39 central councillor positions and one of the three vice president positions on the executive. Kerry Smith reports.
United States President Donald Trump has tried to justify his tariff war on the world on the basis that the US has been听鈥渓ooted, pillaged, raped and plundered鈥. Peter Boyle听argues that this is an inversion of reality.
Peter Dutton鈥檚听new policy to force gas companies to increase supply to the domestic market merely appears to听stand up to听the gas corporations. Alex Bainbridge听argues it does the opposite.
Won Youngsu revisits the historic mobilisations that led to South Korea鈥檚 Constitutional Court finally ratifying former president Yoon Suk Yeol鈥檚 impeachment, 111 days after parliament voted to remove him for his attempted self-coup.
Human Rights Watch criticised the Western Australia government for the alarming rise in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families. Paul Gregoire reports.听
Imagine a world where women were property, traded like livestock, silenced by veils and worked to death by the age of 30. Mary Merkenich looks at the context in which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution launched history鈥檚 most radical experiment for women鈥檚 emancipation.听
Rojava Information Center spoke to Aleppo journalist Hamude, who said the deal 鈥渋s like a test-run of decentralisation. If it works well, maybe it can be implemented in other regions.鈥
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on Israeli institutions and their representatives, an effort that is impossible to divorce from his ongoing trial for corruption, writes Binoy Kampmark.
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