Apr 25, 2024 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The idea that conscription, defined as the compulsory enlistment of citizens for military service, can increase equality and instil a sense of solidarity that transcends traditional societal divides has echoed throughout...
How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day
Apr 25, 2024 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Victor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr was 20 when he died. Commonwealth of Australia (National Archives of...
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a US$95.3 billion foreign aid funding package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on April 23, 2024, following months of political infighting that stalled the bill in the House of...
Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this weeks Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like never before. In fact, if you...
Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Australias inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and its now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. The annual rate peaked at 7.8% in the December quarter of 2022 and is now just 3.6%, in...
Apr 25, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later without sanction, many people ...
The 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
Apr 25, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Across Portugal, a number of photography exhibitions are currently on display that commemorate the ousting of the Estado Novo, the dictatorial, authoritarian and corporatist political regime that had ruled the country...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India