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State of the states: the campaign is almost over, so how has it played out across Australia?

Labor’s negative campaign to portray Dutton as a local Trump clone seems to have been effective.

Material remittances in Pacific labour schemes

Unlike financial remittances, which are easier to track and have an explicit dollar value, material remittances are difficult to trace or translate into a dollar value.

More than half of university students, including internationals, face food insecurity

While food insecurity increased among most groups, younger students, those studying on campus and international students were the most at risk.

Understanding Chinese interests in the Pacific

The PRC’s representatives in Melanesia integrate these three strands of Chinese statecraft to complement each other’s effects and adapt them to conditions on the ground.

Pakistan suspends Simla Accord: An own goal masquerading as retaliation?

This suspension of the Simla Agreement, framed as retaliation, likely stems from immediate frustration rather than coherent strategic calculus.

Why do Labor and the Coalition have so many similar policies?

One party says they’ll cap international student numbers to lower immigration. The other is trying to do precisely the same.

As rivers dry, strategy flows: New Delhi suspends Indus Treaty with calculated precision

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned, “Blood and water cannot flow together”

Feeling mad? New research suggests mindfulness could help manage anger and aggression

Mindfulness is the ability to observe and focus on your thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations in the present moment with acceptance and without judgement.

The dead Hindus in Kashmir ask: is your global outrage reserved for some lives only?

In any nation, we may have differences of opinion and majority and minority groups, but can we act together to exercise our commitment to the common humanity that we all belong to?

‘We get bucketloads of homework’: young people speak about what it’s like to start high school

Students were interviewed in Term 3 and asked to share their thoughts about what the move to high school was like.

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Nearly 200 Victorian multicultural groups to receive $4.9 million in grants

The successful organisations represent more than 46 ethnic communities and 15 faith groups, with more than $1.6 million allocated to groups supporting new and emerging communities as well as regional Victoria.

Australia and US tighten security ties with new AFP–FBI alliance targeting terrorists

Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Krissy Barrett has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FBI Director Kash Patel in Washington, strengthening cooperation between Australia and the United States on counterterrorism, transnational crime and intelligence sharing.

Coalition pledges $524 million to duplicate Donnybrook Road in Melbourne’s north

“Removing the bottleneck at the level crossing and duplicating the entire eight-kilometre stretch is part of the coaliation plan to deliver infrastructure to the very communities that have been starved of it.”
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