Democracy
Trump has laid out a ‘dim sum menu’ of reasons for attacking Iran. There’s one key thing missing
Donald Trump has shown little appetite for finding an off-ramp to the Iran war, even as concerns among Western allies rise and the conflict spreads further.
- Michael Koziol
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- Opinion
- Opinion
I’ve worked alongside good police, but what my daughter saw this week shocked me
She asked me why the Herzog protest required such a violent police response. I did not have a simple answer.
- Violet Roumeliotis
- Opinion
- Opinion
We’re a great nation. Let’s remind ourselves why that is
Compared with much of the world, everything “just works” in Australia, right? No, it doesn’t. It’s up to us to make sure it keeps working.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
- Opinion
- National
We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history
We now live in a more extreme, violent and savage world than a decade ago. Liberal democracy is being confronted with something quite evil. Wider global conflict is far from impossible.
- Dennis Glover
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- Courts
HK media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted under Beijing-imposed national security law
The 78-year-old, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner, faces potential life imprisonment.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Extremism
How to stop neo-Nazis forming a political party: This involves you, Albanese
These anti-democratic fringe-dwellers want to exploit democracy just so they can white-ant it from within. Here’s how democracy can fight back.
- Rosalind Dixon
- Opinion
- Extremism
Ignore these neo-Nazis at our peril: Evil left unchallenged will be normalised
They lie and hijack the ANZAC legend while defiling the memory of almost 40,000 Australians who died fighting Nazi Germany.
- David Ossip
Trump made this the new political test – Mamdani just showed the left how to ace it
Two weeks before the New York election, Zohran Mamdani appeared on an edgy anti-woke podcast. His answers had the host in stitches – and drew 1.9 million views.
- Nathan Taylor Pemberton
‘He’s been sacked!’: How Gough Whitlam’s downfall caused chaos in an HSC class
A legendary northern beaches teacher couldn’t contain his shock.
- Michael Dodd
- Analysis
- US politics
Democrats are at war over ‘caving’ to Trump – and directing their rage at one man
When a small group of Democrats did a deal to end a record US shutdown, it unleashed internal chaos - and progressives reckon one person is to blame.
- Michael Koziol