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The culture wars are perpetually waged in response to new and imagined threats, but they’ve been around forever. They just keep taking on new forms. In Australia, we’re seeing heated zero-sum disputes about everything from gender and sexuality, and race and religious freedom in schools, to climate change and the…

Readers speak out on plans to rename Sirius building.

Five years on, there has been little reflection on the Islamophobia behind the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Newly released documents also reveal worries that reducing troop levels in Iraq would squander ‘the benefits’ to US-Australia alliance

The party misses the chance to have a female candidate in the safe seat vacated by former prime minister Scott Morrison

Liberal Party faithful have pre-selected Simon Kennedy to contest the federal seat of Cook at a by-election triggered by the resignation of Scott Morrison.

From the Aids crisis to the first on-air same-sex marriage – the LGBTQ+ broadcaster was forged in an era of protest but has always had fun too

Labor highlights tax changes and legacy of late MP Peta Murphy, while Liberals’ Nathan Conroy tells ‘scared’ voters to ‘send a message’ to government on law and order

'The recent flooding has reminded me of the 1950s.'