Labor’s UNRWA gamble tests party’s integrity, reputation
Penny Wong has gambled her integrity and accountability by reinstating Australia’s funding of UNRWA, an organisation heavily discredited through its relations with Hamas.
Penny Wong has gambled her integrity and accountability by reinstating Australia’s funding of UNRWA, an organisation heavily discredited through its relations with Hamas.
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump are rear-vision symbols of a fractured America, exposing the failures of its politics when the depth of the US crisis should have thrown up new, dynamic, generational change leaders.
The dangers on display in Britain are the pent-up product of many years of false dreams and failed policies. And are Australian leaders taking the slightest notice?
Shared morality, once the glue that held the social fabric together, is being torn apart while the broad political spectrum in which social democrats, conservatives and card-carrying liberals live together is under deep strain.
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In an exclusive interview, Defence Minister Richard Marles says he is designing a far more capable and lethal navy.
Australia is changing as a society. After October 7, it took a while to grasp: this crisis wasn’t just about Israel, it was about us.
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The Albanese government will face a fraught and dangerous experiment in dealing with Trump if he prevails at the election. Every Labor interest will favour Biden.
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