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indigenous affairs December 13, 2025
‘Increasing failure’: First Nations deaths in custody at record levels
More than three decades after the royal commission, calls are growing for the government to finally implement its recommendations, to stop the rising number of preventable deaths.
law & crime December 6, 2025
Victorian AG admits youth crime laws violate human rights charter
This week the Victorian government passed youth crime laws that will see children face adult courts and sentencing – reforms the attorney-general admits are incompatible with the human rights charter.
international relations November 29, 2025
Australia’s crude Russian oil secret
A shadowy network of ‘dark fleets’ is allowing Russia’s oil export market to escape sanction and threatens to undo any of the good Australia has done in supplying military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
north america November 22, 2025
Trump’s MAGA rift over the Epstein files
The US president has signed legislation to release all Epstein case files, but it’s unclear if this win for the abused will reveal any more about the paedophile’s powerful allies.
immigration November 15, 2025
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’
Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.
law & crime November 8, 2025
One simple way to lift children out of poverty
More than 40 per cent of children in single-parent households live in poverty in Australia. Enforcing child support payments would go a long way towards fixing the problem.
indigenous affairs October 25, 2025
As NSW records its highest yearly number of Indigenous deaths in custody, a Victorian judge recalls one man who died in prison 18 years after he was eligible for release.
law & crime October 25, 2025
Reforming leave laws for grieving parents
A couple’s campaign following the death of their newborn has inspired changes to the Fair Work Act, to help close gaps between the public and private sectors in support for bereaved parents.
law & crime October 25, 2025
Linda Reynolds’ defamation war
Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the events that followed Brittany Higgins’s rape in her office. The following is a precis of the former minister’s actions over that time.
law & crime October 25, 2025
Exclusive: Sex discrimination commissioner ‘inundated’ with threats of harm
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody describes a wave of hate and calls for her resignation fuelled by the Murdoch press in response to her advocacy for transgender rights.
technology October 18, 2025
What the Qantas hack reveals about cybercrime
The Qantas data breach highlights what cybersecurity experts have feared for years – that the outsourcing and offshoring of data management leaves companies and government agencies vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks.
