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There is an unbroken line of injustice that runs from the first European settlement to today. Acknowledging this truth isn’t about making Australians feel shame or guilt – truth-telling is about listening to First Peoples and learning the true history of these lands, so all Australians can move forward together.

The traditional Liberal voter in Cook is clearly feeling disappointed and disenfranchised  – it speaks volumes that the planned farewell dinner for Morrison, with Sky News host Paul Murray as master of ceremonies, was postponed indefinitely due to a lack of RSVPs.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers faces particularly difficult decisions in the next budget, probably the last before an election in early 2025. How much more can he afford to do to prop up growth, with additional measures to assist with the cost of living, while not worsening the inflation outlook?

A measure of the success of Albanese’s Top End foray, according to a key strategist, was that no peep was heard – neither criticism nor praise – from Dutton or his nearly invisible shadow minister, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

Being, at times, an over-aggressive commentator on anthropogenic climate change, I’m sometimes told to ‘butt out, it’s not your field’. But as a biomedical scientist with some public profile, commenting on climate change is not only within my area of expertise, it’s an obligation.

In the video, the children are cowering into one another. They are locked together at the wrists with cable ties, wet from swimming, trying to find shade enough to stand in. A man in heavy boots paces in front of them. His shirt cuts into his arms.

How do we begin to talk about something so degrading to what should be our glorious humanity if we do not first ask the question of how we allowed ourselves to drift so far from each other?

Anthony Albanese had a good week, thank you very much. His opponent, Peter Dutton, not so much. In fact, you could say the Dunkley byelection blew the opposition leader’s credibility out of the water and left him stranded for a reset.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is ‘Count Her In: Invest in women. Accelerate progress’. As an Aboriginal woman with more than 20 years’ experience working on the frontline of First Nations women’s safety, this theme prompts deep reflection about who counts, what is counted (and what isn’t), and whose solutions are deemed worthy of investment to ‘accelerate progress’.