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  • australia

    Anzac Day and the living wounded

    • Brian McCoy
    • 24 April 2025

    As we witness those wars that continue to rage, we might wonder, this Anzac Day, what were the effects on our First Nations people when their lands were first taken? We can now see only too clearly that it is difficult, if not impossible in the longer term, to defend one’s land when the invader has more powerful resources and shows no intention of negotiating peace.

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  • australia

    The two paths before us

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 24 April 2025

    This year has been marked by growing introspection concerning our culture. At the heart of the division between a conflictual and an eirenical view of public life lie different understandings of the value of human life and of what it means for human beings to flourish.

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  • religion

    The legacy of a Jesuit pope

    • Frank Brennan
    • 23 April 2025

    Francis was a pope prepared to blur the edges of doctrine, or at least its application, opening the doors of the Church to all those seeking love, mercy and forgiveness. He never doubted God’s capacity to love and forgive all who sought that love and forgiveness. He maintained the certainty, not of doctrine but of the simple piety of believers.

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  • arts and culture

    Moral panic aside, Adolescence is a masterpiece

    • Peter Craven
    • 16 April 2025

    A cultural flashpoint disguised as a television drama, Adolescence has drawn comment from prime ministers and pundits, mothers and sons alike. Jack Thorne’s four-part epic, powered by Owen Cooper’s once-in-a-generation performance, turns a teenage murder accusation into both high art and a bracing reckoning with sex, violence, and the internet’s moral void.

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  • arts and culture

    The man who played everyone but himself

    • Peter Craven
    • 11 April 2025

    Before heartthrobs became brand names, there was Richard Chamberlain. A matinee idol with the soul of a serious actor, he rose to fame as Dr. Kildare, sought after Shakespeare, and stole scenes from Gielgud. His legacy is a portrait of quiet yearning — for love, for truth, for artistic respect.

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  • australia

    Behind the classroom door, sexual harassment is becoming routine

    • Melinda Tankard Reist
    • 11 April 2025

    A growing number of female teachers in Australia are leaving the profession, citing daily sexual harassment from their own students. Fuelled by pornography and social media, the misconduct ranges from crude comments to deepfake abuse, raising urgent questions about safety, consent, and the culture festering inside today’s classrooms.

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  • The king of the Cross

    • Barry Divola
    • 10 April 2025

    Vittorio ‘Vito’ Bianchi was small in stature, but a giant of a man who ruled over the Piccolo Bar café in Kings Cross for over 50 years. To live in the Cross meant that you knew Vittorio Bianchi. It was impossible not to. 

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  • The band that could-a-been

    • Barry Divola
    • 27 March 2025

    Glide were an ’90s Australian band set for big things - a new documentary is a cautionary tale about how critical success doesn’t always translate into commercial success, and how the quest can lead to casualties along the way. 

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  • Portents

    • Michael Farrell
    • 13 March 2025

    Portents, auguries, challenge my faith. A star shines over a publishing house. They have produced a book by a poet who has never written a word. Poetry bends, pretends, protects, its grand scope.

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  • In the name of God, stop the killing

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 10 April 2025

    What makes a war just? Can any goal justify the deaths of tens of thousands, the bombing of hospitals, the starvation of civilians? As the devastation in Gaza deepens, these questions press harder. In a conflict marked by profound suffering, what moral, legal, or human standards can still hold?

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  • Liberation Day tariffs punish the poor

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 08 April 2025

    In a move as nostalgic as it is economically incoherent, Donald Trump’s proposed global tariff hike promises to punish the world’s poorest nations while claiming to revive America’s rusted-out industries. But the math is dubious, the logic muddled — and the unintended consequences, as ever, potentially vast.

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  • Trumpland abroad: The foreign policy of a deal-maker

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 02 April 2025

    No one can predict President Trump’s next move on the global stage. But what appears to be chaos has a clear historical precedent, rooted in a long American tradition of swaggering, often improvisational power. In Trump’s hands, diplomacy is spectacle: alliances unravel, spectacle dominates and self-interest rules.

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  • The quiet injustice facing the outer suburbs

    • Bronwen Clark
    • 24 April 2025

    As Australia moves through another federal election campaign, a quarter of a million new voters in the nation’s outer suburbs remain largely invisible in political discourse. These are not marginal communities in the cultural or economic sense; they are the nation’s most dynamic zones of growth, diversity, and aspiration.

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  • Why Australians with disabilities are still left behind

    • Adam Hughes Henry
    • 22 April 2025

    By any measure of moral progress, a society should be judged by how it treats those who are most vulnerable. Yet in Australia, people with disabilities continue to be treated not as citizens with equal standing, but as problems to be managed; an inconvenience to be contained within a labyrinth of bureaucratic delay and economic rationalisation.

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  • Eastering in us

    • Michael McGirr
    • 14 April 2025

    When Holocaust survivor Jacob Rosenberg once spotted his friend's murderer in a Melbourne post office queue, he discovered that peace doesn't start with grand gestures, but quiet moments of letting go.

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  • In praise of Pope Francis

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 22 April 2025

    In a world that sees refugees and immigrants as a threat, disregards the victims of war, trashes the environment, rewards self-interest and cheapens religious faith, Pope Francis wept with those mistreated, pleaded their cause and radiated joy and hope.

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  • What the bishops chose not to say

    • John Warhurst
    • 10 April 2025

    As Australia approaches a federal election, the bishops have offered a statement of gentle encouragement themed around hope. Yet in its caution and generality, it raises questions about missed opportunities for moral clarity, national relevance, and a more engaged voice in public life.

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  • What the Church can learn from its exile to the margins

    • Vincent Long Van Nguyen
    • 01 April 2025

    As war rages, the climate suffers and inequality grows, the ancient idea of Jubilee feels newly urgent. Can an economy built on profit give way to one rooted in justice? Can the Church trade power for presence? Renewal may begin where the poor, the displaced and the earth come together.

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