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Keywords: Cost Of Living

AUSTRALIA

Street poll: Which party will win the votes of Australians doing it tough?
- Barry Gittins
- 13 March 2025
Australia’s political class might make grand promises, but for those on the margins — homeless, underemployed, struggling with addiction — these pledges mean little. The people who have been left behind know the game is rigged. As elections approach, they watch from the outside, knowing their vote was never meant to count.
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AUSTRALIA

Change of era, or era of change?
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 March 2025
What feels like turbulence in the present often reveals itself, in hindsight, as the rupture of an era. From the fall of Rome to the upheavals of today, are we witnessing mere disruption, or the twilight of an old order?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

True crime, fake illness, real profits
- Nikki Richardson
- 06 March 2025
In Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, Belle Gibson’s wellness scam has been repackaged for the streaming era, perfectly illustrating how news, entertainment, and advertising function as overlapping parts of the same machinery to keep us consuming content.
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INTERNATIONAL

Is this the end of American hegemony?
- David James
- 26 February 2025
With China and Russia asserting influence, alliances shifting, and economic nationalism rising, the unipolar era may be over. Is the U.S. retreating, recalibrating, or losing control? For decades, America dictated the global order. Now, the world is learning to move without it.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change is fuelling teen despair. Here's what to do
- Jo Skinner
- 19 February 2025
As climate disasters escalate, more young people grapple with anxiety, despair, and a deep sense of uncertainty. Finding resilience amid rising global temperatures has become a defining challenge for a generation confronting an increasingly unstable world.
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INTERNATIONAL

Weep with immigrants
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 January 2025
The United States' recent shift in immigration policy towards exclusions and deportations is a modern moral reckoning. It underscores the tension between a society’s right to regulate its borders and its responsibility to uphold the dignity of those who already call it home.
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Keywords: Cost Of Living

Street poll: Which party will win the votes of Australians doing it tough?

Change of era, or era of change?

True crime, fake illness, real profits

Is this the end of American hegemony?

Climate change is fuelling teen despair. Here's what to do

Weep with immigrants