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The government has failed to provide support, leaving us to shoulder the burden of trying to bring our family here, while the Coalition continues to dehumanise us

Critics say the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children has failed to make the bold recommendations required, and the RBA will face the House of Representatives today.

We are in desperate need of new homes — a fact on which Brits tend to agree. They tend to disagree, though, over where to put them, and these battles generally concentrate on the edges of cities. Take the Government’s new plan to build on grey-belt land — “poor quality…

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Mystical Beatle George Harrison sang about how “Bangladesh” was “a mess”. He was proved right again last week. With echoes of the ousting of Saddam Hussein, statues were toppled and effigies of the “father of the nation” burned from capital city Dhaka to Tower Hamlets. His autocratic daughter PM Sheikh…

I would be the first to admit it. My stories and commentaries on the state of the British economy have not made for very cheery reading over the past two or three years. Close friends have taken to calling me the Prynn Reaper during the seemingly interminable and gruelling cost…

If you ask most people how the crisis in the NHS has had an impact on their lives, they will recount stories of a horrifying 12-hour wait in A&E, a cancelled operation or a delayed cancer diagnosis. Politicians know this: it explains the obsessive focus on the waiting list or…

It is two and a half years since the excoriating Baroness Casey review into the Metropolitan Police, which labelled the force institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. Yet, despite the passage of time and institutional imperative to change, the Met is currently failing in nearly all its responsibilities, according to the…

Now the fires are out, we must take stock. There are no easy solutions to extremism, but there are some clear places to start, says Ciaran Thapar of the Youth Endowment Fund