Martin Luther King
Fix the planning system – now that’s a good plan
Successive governments over many decades have wound back spending on public housing, sending people into the private rental market. We need more modest, cheaper-to-build homes.
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Why we need an emphasis on moderation rather than excess
Our socio-economic system is modelled on the wrong thing, greed. We need to change that.
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
Why the Voice should have a dream as big as Martin Luther King’s
The Australia of 2023 is very different from the America of 1963, but the historic opportunity to remedy a racial wrong is unmistakably equivalent.
- Nick Bryant
‘Insulting and vulgar’ Martin Luther King jnr statue in Boston draws mockery, disdain
The sculptor says he found inspiration for the work in a photograph of the civil rights pioneer but the response so far has been less than enthusiastic.
- Travis M. Andrews
- Exclusive
- US politics
Martin Luther King III says US must consider adopting Australian voting system
The son of one of the world’s most renowned civil rights leaders is open to adopting Australia’s voting system in the US to help protect democracy.
- Farrah Tomazin
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
The Trump era is over, not with a bang but with an elegant troll
Left intellectuals have reacted with horror and bafflement to the 45th president's decision to commemorate an anti-Trump political theorist.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
Altered States: how a superpower stopped being great
From Morning in America to American Carnage, the sweep of history suggests Donald Trump’s presidency is more culmination than aberration.
- Nick Bryant
Why did America stop being great?
In this week's episode of Good Weekend Talks, editor Katrina Strickland is joined by Nick Bryant, author and New York correspondent for the BBC, and Farrah Tomazin, a senior writer with The Age currently covering US politics and news, for a conversation about Donald Trump, American unrest and the upcoming election.
- Konrad Marshall
John Lewis, racial equality champion and US Congressman, dies
Lewis was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by the Reverend Martin Luther King jnr.
- Calvin Woodward
- Opinion
- World politics
Reach out to Russia to manage the rise of China
In the long term it is an ambitious and revanchist China, not Russia, which poses the larger threat to the global order.
- Dave Sharma
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