Australia

The scheme, engineered to claw back funds supposedly overpaid to welfare recipients, was broken and cruel from the start. Despite a royal commission’s findings, its political backers are unlikely to face punishment.

Modern slavery ranges from debt bondage and forced child labor to sexual exploitation.

For Australia to be a country that truly values its security, it needs to offer its young, and not-so young, adults the conditions for them to thrive.

The warning came in the form of a letter from a defense attache “indicating that the release of the Brereton report and its findings may initiate Leahy Law considerations.”

It is critically important for citizens to be able to express their concern about the climate emergency in whatever peaceful way they would like to do so.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers detailed a government economic blueprint for next year, which aims to ease financial hardships of the most needy without stoking stubbornly high inflation.

An Australia that can engage culturally with Indonesia can also counter the perception that poorly behaved individuals are reflective of wider Australian culture. 

Migration is a nation-building project, and Canberra’s review of its migration system reveals the need for new approaches.

The Defense Strategic Review achieves its ambitious objective of providing a holistic consideration of Australia’s defense force structure and posture. 

Altering the Australian Constitution is difficult, but present polling suggests support for an Indigenous Voice, despite some boisterous opposition.

Australia needs all the tools of statecraft it can muster, especially diplomacy.

If Australia’s Liberal Party is in decline, does this mean that the Labor Party is in ascendency?