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This new policy pivot to economic development, while it must be implemented in a disputatious political environment, draws attention to the universal aspiration for Indigenous economic parity in a way that no other national Indigenous affairs policy has in the past 50 years.

Dutton is again tapping into an anti-immigrant sentiment he’s long been cultivating, in recent months referencing supposed surges in arrivals of boat people, to reignite debate over people smugglers and border security. This is a dangerous moment in light of the series of, at times ugly, protests and demonstrations related to the war in the Middle East.

People write this city to ensure it exists and they existed within it. But not you. You are on the edges, in spaces that lack definition. Even locals don’t give them a name.

Essentially, the Nats have become the political arm of the mining industry as the climate debate has gained substance and momentum. What is most worrying is that they are now also dictating Liberal Party policy.

Far from rattling the Albanese government, Paul Keating’s verbal pyrotechnics over the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal have been taken as confirmation its credentials on national security are firmly anchored in the United States alliance – exactly where most Australians want it to remain.

Project 2025 recommends funding American schools via a voucher system, a device developed by economist Milton Friedman in 1955 … Australia has had an ersatz voucher system since 2000, when then prime minister John Howard and his education minister, David Kemp, fundamentally deregulated the way schools could be established and funded.

Linda Reynolds admits she was angry when she called Brittany Higgins a lying cow. “It was just something I said to express frustration about what she was saying … It represented my frustration.” She was angry when she sent a text message to Bruce Lehrmann’s defence lawyer, making light of a dress Higgins wore to court.

There have been times when I’ve forgotten myself, as if I’d become someone else. I didn’t know this person I’d become. I had no memories. In hallways my footsteps made no sound, in mirrors I had no face, no matter how hard I looked the faces of others were hidden from me, on the train, on the street and in the park beneath the leaves.

J.D. Vance is fascinating. Not for who he is now, but for who he has been and who he may become. I doubt either presidential candidate, Harris or Trump, walked his road, asked his questions or did his reading.

Albanese believes it will take a long time to heal the wounds created by the referendum and regain the considerable loss of momentum in reconciliation. He needs no convincing that Dutton will ruthlessly exploit subterranean and even explicit community prejudice in his pursuit of power.