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The odd couple? Elon Musk and Erin Molan have teamed up for a new current affairs show on X

Erin Molan and Elon Musk made a TV show for Twitter. It’s as weird as it sounds

After watching the first episode, I feel that news and current affairs have gone to the Doges.

  • Thomas Mitchell

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AfD leader Alice Weidel takes part in a televised discussion in Germany last Sunday.

The woman leading Germany’s far-right resurgence

Terrorist attacks and job cuts have left Germans feeling bitter, and Alice Weidel is set to benefit in an election some say could seal the fate of Europe.

  • Rob Harris
Peter Dutton and Donald Trump have both run unapologetic ‘anti-woke’ campaigns.

The war against woke is really a war against empathy

At a time when the most vulnerable are increasingly targeted, a little empathy and understanding has never been more important.

  • Cameron Atfield
Rhoda Roberts

Feeling unwelcome: Why debate is mounting over an ancient ceremony

From local councils to sporting ovals and the steps of parliament, the Welcome to Country ceremony performed by Indigenous elders has been targeted in a debate about cost and custom.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

No worries? How a fractured Australia lost its laid-back spirit

Even our lamb ads portray a fraying of national cohesion. From antisemitic terror to political polarisation, we’re not as relaxed as we like to imagine.

  • Nick Bryant
The Captain Cook statue in St Kilda was vandalised in 2018, and in 2024 was severed from its plinth entirely.

Albanese’s greatest election threat isn’t Dutton. It’s the woke left

Aside from the odd snarl, the PM isn’t taking the Coalition’s bait. But just because he refuses to take the bait doesn’t mean his Labor colleagues won’t.

  • Gary Newman
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Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese

Get set for a bitter election campaign fuelled by fear, not hope

The political year has begun with a hard-edged energy fuelled by personal attacks, scare campaigns and culture war debates.

  • Matthew Knott
Australian flags ready for a citizenship ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall on Australia Day in 2023.

PM dodges Australia Day stoush with Dutton, calls him ‘nasty’

Anthony Albanese sidestepped the culture war topic, instead laying into Peter Dutton in personal terms over his opposition to Labor’s cost-of-living plans.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
From left: Anthony Albanese’s approval rating has dropped, while Justin Trudeau is the latest progessive leader leaving the stage, along with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. German chancellor Olaf Scholz faces the electorate next month, while Jacinda Ardern left politics in 2023.

Trudeau, Biden and Ardern are done. What’s eating the global left?

Australia may be an island, but it is not immune to the systemic forces sweeping across global politics.

  • Matthew Knott
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Straining to fathom water filters

Overall, it’s a bit of a dampener.

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