Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author and academic. He is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and co-host of Channel Ten's The Project.
Opinion
University
Australian students could be the real victims of international caps
Without top 100 rankings, we lose our reputation as a place of high-quality education. Without that, things quickly snowball for locals wanting an education.
- by Waleed Aly
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Opinion
US Votes 2024
You know Trump’s in trouble when he can’t settle on a nickname for his enemy
The fact Harris has been relatively anonymous, once the sign of an underwhelming VP, is now the very thing that enables her to appear new.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Scams
Banks no longer protect us from scammers. It’s time they paid the price
We now live in a world where even the savviest, best educated people cannot protect themselves. Australian banks should reimburse scam victims, as UK banks are set to do.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Political leadership
Identity politics has the power to be meaningful. If only we stopped making it an incoherent mess
Since the resignation of Senator Fatima Payman, fretting about identity politics has become a renewed national sport. Now it’s the frame through which all political actions must pass.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Social media
Do you recognise this man? He has 300 million die-hard fans but isn’t famous
MrBeast created possibly the single largest mass-truancy event in Australian history this week, and yet you probably haven’t even heard of him.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
NACC
Robo-debt wasn’t fair or legal. Because of a loophole we’ll never know if it was also corrupt
Australians have been left with the troubling conclusion that the national anti-corruption body doesn’t believe in the importance of its role in a case like this.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
When you force people into a ‘safe zone’ then bomb it, ‘whoops’ doesn’t quite cut it
What happens you instruct a million people to go to a tiny area, then bomb that place? Melting bodies. Netanyahu can’t call the Rafah deaths a “tragedy” of hindsight.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Domestic violence
Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe
The more I heard the discourse around respect and violence, the more it reminded me of being told that it was up to all Muslims to own the problem of terrorism and solve it.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Crime
The problem isn’t the definition of terrorism, it’s that the label determines our response
What happened at Bondi Junction isn’t any less horrific if we conclude it isn’t terrorism. The victims are no less dead, and their deaths are no less tragic. The problem of violence against women isn’t any less serious.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Political leadership
Peter Dutton, friend of the working class. For now…
In a desperate attempt to regain lost voters, Dutton’s 2.0 version of the Coalition is the party for the worker, but with no obviously pro-worker policies.
- by Waleed Aly
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The cold calculation behind our aid cuts to Gaza
The accusations against the United Nations agency helping Palestinians in Gaza are murky, but the consequences have been painfully clear.
- by Waleed Aly
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