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Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author, academic and regular columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure analysis of the rise of One Nation

The South Australian election shows we’re entering a political hall of mirrors, with votes pinging wildly around our preferential voting system. Such a non-linear moment deserves a non-linear approach. So today, I present a choose-your-own analysis.

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The world’s leaders are done with Trump’s games. America has become refusable

Whatever else America is meant to be capable of, we expect it to be able to smash things. And yet, barely a fortnight into the US president’s war on Iran, he’s reduced to asking for help … from China.

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The Iranian soccer team is a feel-good story that perfectly suits Trump

The thought of turning those women away was, rightly, intolerable. Meanwhile, Trump has sent at least three planes of Iranians back to Iran, several who were pleading for their lives.

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A boy waves an Iranian flag in front a police facility struck during the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday.

An oppressed people are, once again, lured onto the street only to have their hopes dashed

Celebrating is the natural response of those living under authoritarianism to news their tyrant is gone. So much is loaded into the moment. Like releasing a breath that has been held for decades.

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Why the scandal of the royal formerly known as Prince won’t remove Australia’s King

If you’re an Australian republican, you might see this scandal involving the man Anthony Albanese has called a “grub” as a pivotal moment.

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No good Muslims? Pauline Hanson has removed her racism fig leaf and mulched it

This story is not merely about the possibility of the Coalition moving to the right. It’s about One Nation outbidding them by moving even further that way too.

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The Muslim community is outraged by the behaviour of NSW police at Monday’s protest.

I’ve prayed in an MCG stairwell. Here’s the truth about that viral police video

It’s tempting in this hyper-political moment to assume everything is some kind of political confection, calculated to provoke or propagandise.

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Brace yourself for the full-throated politics of grievance

Inflation hits poorer people harder, which creates the very worst social equation: the wealthy can continue to spend, further stoking inflation. It creates a recipe for populism.

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Australia’s neo-Nazis are shape-shifting. And as dangerous as ever

Neo-Nazis have embraced the idea of swarms of independent cells – with no central control or direction – as a more effective way to produce chaos and social panic.

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Sussan Ley’s Coalition wedged itself. They can’t see a rake without stepping on it

We’ve seen oppositions destroy themselves over some divisive issue. But I don’t ever recall it happening over an issue they themselves foisted on the government.

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