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ARTS AND CULTURE

Shakespeare's war criminal? Henry V and the problem of heroism
- Peter Craven
- 14 March 2025
Shakespeare’s Henry V has long been celebrated as a stirring hymn to English valour, a theatrical counterpart to Churchill’s wartime oratory. But beneath its rousing rhetoric lies a darker truth of a king who breaks hearts as easily as he wins battles, a war epic that disguises the brutality it glorifies.
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INTERNATIONAL

The roots of American discontent
- Nirmal Ghosh
- 14 March 2025
Donald Trump’s return to the White House was the culmination of decades of economic decline, political disillusionment, and cultural fracture, forces the liberal elite ignored at their peril. As Trump reshapes America’s role in the world, his rise reveals hard truths about democracy, populism, and power in the 21st century.
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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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AUSTRALIA

We must keep toxic election culture out of Australia
- Sarah Klenbort
- 12 March 2025
As Australia heads towards another federal election, the influence of big money in politics looms larger. In the U.S., billionaires and corporate interests have eroded trust in government. Campaigns there cost billions of dollars, while ours, for now, do not. But can we keep it that way?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

If he be an honest man, so much better
- Warwick McFadyen
- 06 March 2025
What does a forgotten cemetery job ad from 1860 reveal about the lives we honour, the work we overlook, and the honesty we still hope for? A chance discovery in the archives becomes a meditation on honesty, mortality, and the curious poetry of forgotten lives.
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Keywords: Liberal

Shakespeare's war criminal? Henry V and the problem of heroism

The roots of American discontent

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

Change of era, or era of change?

We must keep toxic election culture out of Australia

If he be an honest man, so much better