OPINION

“Selective amnesia”: India rebuts Pakistan’s claims on Indus Waters Treaty dispute

The Treaty requires renegotiation to reflect six decades of changed circumstances, including technical advancements

Auction sales are sliding, banks are tightening loans. But is the budget really the only factor?

Auction clearance rates – the percentage of listed properties successfully sold at auction – fell the week after budget.

OPINION

Who gets to be Australian? Not a skin test, but a values test

I wrote fifteen years ago how Australia's immigration debate is trapped between two false poles: those who fear diversity and those who celebrate it...

OPINION

As Islamist street power returns in Bangladesh, its militant pipeline has global consequences

For most westerns, that scene registered as distant unrest. It should register as a warning.

OPINION

Do Australians really ‘work half the week’ just to pay their income tax?

NSW Premier Chris Minns unexpectedly appeared to side with the Coalition this week, suggesting some Australians were now working half of the week just to pay their income tax.

IMMIGRATION

Jacinta Price and Anne Aly are both right about migrants — but only partially

What a century-old Pacific history of Indian migration tells us about the conversation Australia keeps getting wrong.

OPINION

Tony Abbott to be new federal president of the Liberal Party

The choice of Abbott, 68, for the post has the support of Liberal leader Angus Taylor but more moderate Liberals are concerned.

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The Outrage Symbiosis: How the Anti-Modi Left and the Pro-Modi Right Feed Each Other

They do not wish to destroy each other; they require each other to maintain their respective audiences.

OPINION

CSIRO is cutting climate science jobs. This is what’s at stake for Australia

If ACCESS funding is reduced, Australia will have less ability to model how climate change will affect us.

OPINION

The government has blocked funding to 13 research projects for security reasons. What happens now?

This is more than double the number that have been vetoed on security grounds for any year since the research council was established in 2001.

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OPINION

“Selective amnesia”: India rebuts Pakistan’s claims on Indus Waters Treaty dispute

Auction sales are sliding, banks are tightening loans. But is the budget really the only factor?

Who gets to be Australian? Not a skin test, but a values test

As Islamist street power returns in Bangladesh, its militant pipeline has global consequences

Do Australians really ‘work half the week’ just to pay their income tax?

Jacinta Price and Anne Aly are both right about migrants — but only partially

Tony Abbott to be new federal president of the Liberal Party

The Outrage Symbiosis: How the Anti-Modi Left and the Pro-Modi Right Feed Each Other

CSIRO is cutting climate science jobs. This is what’s at stake for Australia

The government has blocked funding to 13 research projects for security reasons. What happens now?

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Indian-origin truck drivers among 21 charged after 1.7-tonne international drug bust

In defence of Australia’s ‘monoculture’ that allows for its thriving multiculturalism

Cockroach Janta Party ends protest after India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns