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Friday essay: how Australia’s ‘invasion novels’ have reflected our cultural anxieties around race

This month is the 30th anniversary of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech to Parliament in which she declared Australia was in danger of being “swamped by Asians”.

The Conversation

How does unthinkable policy become inevitable? The ‘Overton window’ is one possible answer

Not that long ago, Australians owned many public enterprises and lived behind high tariff walls. The country ran on cheap coal-fired power. A pro-China foreign policy and a large, bipartisan migration program worked to the country’s benefit.

The Conversation

Shocks, alchemy and John Howard’s ‘long shadow’ have shaped 21st century Australian politics

It says something not too flattering about Australian politics that respected academic Paul Strangio’s new book The Alchemy of Leadership only discusses 21st century prime ministers, but still needs to cover seven of them. Or eight, if you count Kevin Rudd twice.

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'Never be the same': former PM reflects on 9/11 attacks

Prime Minister John Howard was in the United States when terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001, which would change the course of his prime ministership.

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'Magnitude slowly hit': 9/11 remembered 25 years on

A political reporter has recounted being in Washington with an ex-prime minister a quarter of a century ago when terrorist attacks on the US changed the world.

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The Coalition wants to make flag burning a crime. It’s a revival of a decades-old battle

This week, the Coalition released a policy it promised would “protect and defend our national day, our national flag and our war memorials”.

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Another Australian found safe after Nepal-Tibet floods – as it happened

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Coalition denies flag-burning ban an attempt to undercut One Nation as Labor says push has ‘element of desperation’

Policy unveiled on Sunday would create new criminal offences for flag burning and defacing historical monuments, and legislate 26 January as Australia Day

The Guardian - AU

Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month

Discover what’s coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Prime Video and others in September, including Toy Story 5, two Russell Crowe movies and a Tampa affair doco

The Guardian - AU

Thrown shoes, sabotaged launches and exposed affairs: the drama of Australian political publishing

The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 taping of the now-defunct ABC show Q&A throws a shoe at former prime minister John Howard. (It echoed a famous moment two years earlier, when an Iraqi journalist threw his…

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Albanese has everything to lose engaging in a fight with Hanson, but he may be drawn in anyway

The PM wants to combat One Nation through core Labor values such as education and health, even as his popularity takes a beating

The Guardian - AU

Australia has spent 25 years ‘stopping the boats’, but that’s not the same as controlling migration

Australia has spent a quarter of a century selling the world a simple idea: crack down on boats at the border, and people will believe you have migration under control.

The Conversation

Barack Obama, JFK and … Josh Frydenberg: what can a memoir do for an ambitious politician?

The former treasurer’s new book will hit shelves soon, but he may learn that memoirs can be blunt instruments for political renewal. Just ask Peter Costello

The Guardian - AU

Eight days that triggered a dark Australian legacy

Political masterstroke to some, cruel and illegal to others, the 2001 Tampa affair triggered a costly legacy of offshore processing.

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Albo is clinging to a safe strategy. What the people want is something bolder

The major parties are both out of touch in distinct ways.

The Conversation

Paul Kelly’s exceptional history charts the decline and fall of the Coalition – but leaves questions unanswered

The Twilight of Exceptionalism is veteran journalist Paul Kelly’s latest contribution to the chronicles of Australian political history. In the tradition of Edward Gibbon, it’s a story of the decline and fall – not the rise and fall – of the Coalition government from 2013 to 2022. And in this…

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Famed artist and community elders among NAIDOC winners

This years NAIDOC awards have celebrated Indigenous excellence across sports, arts and community leadership.

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One Nation has long claimed to represent the ‘working class’ – and that makes it a serious threat to Labor

Australian politics has long afforded an almost mythical status to certain categories of voters – usually a large group that feels disenfranchised but in fact wields a lot of electoral clout. Robert Menzies, for example, spoke of the “forgotten people”, John Howard had his “battlers”, and Scott Morrison the “quiet…

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'Pollster's picnic' carries warning to read with care

Federal politics is awash with polling, with new data dropping on average twice a week during 2026. But is it good for democracy?

The Times of India

English woman claimed she gave birth to rabbits and Britain's most respected doctors believed every word: The story of history's greatest medical hoax

In the autumn of 1726, an extraordinary claim gripped Britain and left even some of the country's most respected physicians baffled. A poor woman from Surrey named Mary Toft insisted she had given birth not to a baby, but to rabbits. The bizarre story quickly spread beyond her village, attracting…

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View from The Hill: Even when they’re doing quite well, Liberals find a way to put their foot in it

The Liberals, it seems, can’t resist returning to damaging infighting even in the one part of the country where things have been going quite encouragingly for them.

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Yes, the tax debate has been unedifying at times. But it shows reform working as it should in a democracy

Safe passage through parliament was secured this week for tax reforms proposed in the Albanese government’s 2026 budget. Despite much debate over the reforms’ pros and cons, and negotiations within parliament, this is a demonstration of Australia’s democratic system working as it was designed to do.

The Guardian - AU

Pauline Hanson’s views haven’t changed since her first speech. But now she is resonating with Australia’s bitter and resentful mood

All the One Nation leader had to do to ‘win’ in the eyes of her movement’s base was turn up as the flaming beacon of their discontent

The Guardian - AU

For those shedding a tear over house prices falling, these numbers may change your mind

An average home would cost $595,500 now if prices were the same relative to income as before John Howard turned the market into an investor casino

Newcastle Herald

Grouting at Spotlight building to recommence after safety issues

SafeWork NSW inspectors issued an improvement and prohibition notice after fly ash spilled onto the road.

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