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A decade after the fall of the Howard government, Australia remains unable to escape or undo the insular and unfair policies it enacted.

Shinzō Abe seeks military mandate. Australia’s support for Iran deal. Germany’s far-right party splits.

Belvoir artistic director Eamon Flack on cuts to arts funding in Australia and the significance of art and culture in our lives.

Whistleblowers suggest a senate committee’s failure to recommend the establishment of a federal anti-corruption body is another sign of a system unwilling to subject itself to scrutiny.

The death of an Aboriginal man in a NSW correctional centre has brought to light broader failings in the system of preventing – and recording – Indigenous fatalities in custody.

Thirty years late, and with a haste that surprised the industry, Malcolm Turnbull is taking Australia into space.

Legislation for same-sex marriage overseas provides a series of natural experiments on social, economic and personal benefits.

US unclear on nuclear first strike; deadlier weapons heading to Aleppo; The Hague orders Australia into mediation with Timor-Leste over maritime boundary.

Marcia Langton talks about a promising welfare management trial and how constitutional recognition would complete the Commonwealth.

As a royal commission probes child protection and detention in the Northern Territory, ongoing issues of alcohol abuse, violence and neglect in Aboriginal families keep delivering new offenders into the system.