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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Secretive Albanese government goes backward on transparency

Labor refused freedom of information requests in its first term more often than the Morrison government despite campaigning on a platform of integrity.

  • Paul Sakkal and Brittany Busch

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Drew Hutton (front), pictured with Friends of the Earth campaigner Cam Walker in 2013.

Booted from party, Greens co-founder vows to fight on

The Greens co-founder booted from the party on the weekend has hit back, accusing the organisation of becoming “too weird and unlikeable” for electoral success and urging the federal leader to intervene.

  • Cameron Atfield
Elon Musk’s X has dismissed take down orders from Australia’s eSafety commissioner.

‘MechaHitler’: Why Elon Musk’s chatbot is at the centre of an Australian legal dispute

Elon Musk’s X and Australia’s online safety watchdog are back in court. Here’s what to know.

  • David Swan
Anthony Albanese meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday.

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had had a security incident earlier in the day.

  • Paul Sakkal
Special envoy to combat antisemitism Jillian Segal.

What is the controversial definition of antisemitism that institutions are being told to adopt?

Australia’s first antisemitism envoy has called for the definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to be embedded in public life.

  • Nick Newling
Mo Chara of Kneecap performs at the Glastonbury music festival. The band’s set is now under police investigation.

At Glastonbury, left-wing politics are shocking again

Artists like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are rediscovering the cultural power of shock, largely because of horror unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the minefield of taboos around discussing them.

  • Michelle Goldberg
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Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan crowdsurfing at Glastonbury, where the offensive chant was heard.

Outrage over rap group’s ‘deeply offensive’ IDF chant at Glastonbury

The BBC has been issued a “please explain” for livestreaming the chant uncensored, while police said they would examine video footage amid calls for the performers to be arrested.

  • Patrick Sawer, Janet Eastham and Ethan Croft
US Republican Senator JD Vance, who opposes aid to Ukraine, speaks at the Munich Security Conference in February.

J.D. Vance chastised Europeans on free speech. He wasn’t wrong

Germany has taken the homeopathic approach to free speech, hoping that a minuscule amount, heavily diluted, will cure what ails the nation.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Chris Elston, known online as Billboard Chris, and aide Lois McLatchie Miller, left, in Sydney earlier this year.

The activist, Elon Musk and Trump’s free speech gripe with Australia

Lawyers spent days going back and forth about a post on X earlier this year. Now the case has caught the attention of the Trump administration.

  • Michael Koziol
Hundreds of demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common during a rally at the historic park in Cambridge, Mass Massachussetts on Saturday calling on Harvard University to resist what organisers described as attempts by President Donald Trump to influence the institution.

‘No takeover’: Harvard refuses to surrender independence after Trump threat

Trump’s demands include ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, changing admissions and hiring, and curbing the “power” of certain students, faculty members.

  • Janet Lorin and Brooke Sutherland

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