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WEB3 days ago · Inside Story | Current affairs & culture from Australia and beyond. National affairs The enemy within Mark Baker 17 September 2024 The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong. National affairs Australia’s failed jobs experiment Mike Steketee 16 September 2024 The Keating ...
It’s not just police who police • Inside Story
WEB12 hours ago · It’s not just police who police. An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem. Nic Maclellan 20 September 20242193 words. Prime minister Anthony Albanese joins other Pacific leaders for a group photo at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tonga late last month ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
WEBAug 28, 2024 · migration. Peter Dutton’s road to nowhere Peter Brent 28 August 2024 The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession. Poor at politics, strong on policy Peter Mares 2 August 2024 Andrew Giles’s record as immigration minister stands up remarkably well Distant crimes, nearby perpetrators Hamish McDonald 10 May 2024 Under ...
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
WEBOct 6, 2023 · As 2023 began, Dreyfus repeated his view that putting the Voice in the Constitution would have no impact on sovereignty. Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy gave a similar assurance on the ABC’s Q&A in late January. But the government seemed reluctant to define what Indigenous sovereign rights entailed.
Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story • Inside Story
WEBIt is a complex, contoured and ongoing history of human endurance and achievement in the face of great social, environmental and climatic change. And last week, in a landmark Nature paper, it was pushed back to 65,000 years. Dating the earliest human occupation at 65,000 years ago is a dramatic step, and it throws up questions that are not ...
Spiky questions remain for AUKUS proponents • Inside Story
WEBThe debate about AUKUS — the military technology-sharing agreement best known for its promise to supply eight nuclear-powered submarines for Australia’s navy, announced in September 2021 by prime minister Scott Morrison — was initially conducted mostly among defence boffins. But in March 2023 Morrison’s successor, Anthony Albanese, went ...
Bringing them home - Inside Story
WEBJan 1, 2019 · The slow and meandering journey of these stories of suffering and trauma to the centre of settler consciousness was a long one, which Bringing Them Home would complete in 1997. In July 1996, however, the newly minted Howard cabinet — assisted by a submission from attorney-general Daryl Williams — …
Collateral damage • Inside Story
WEBApr 10, 2020 · The highly competent former Queensland premier Ted Theodore had been forced to stand down as Scullin’s treasurer while an investigation was conducted into his business affairs. In New South Wales, the powerful Labor leader Jack Lang was exerting growing control over the party at both state and federal level.
After the battle • Inside Story
WEBNov 28, 2020 · The sheer human drama overwhelms the senses. It catches at the throat like the crisp, sharp air of Oruzgan itself, as if you’ve just jumped down from the helicopter onto the stony ground. The adrenaline pumps as you imagine the sudden chaos and excitement, the sheer power and the feeling of omnipotence carried by the crack Special Forces ...
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