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In recent years, Australia has faced a reckoning over the actions of some of our special forces soldiers, who have gone from decorated heroes to murderers accused of horrific war crimes against civilians.David McBride is the former military la
Today, writer Angela Savage with her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly. Parents often face the dilemma of helping their children become independent, while not wanting to let them go.Angela’s story, ‘Fledglings’, tells the story of wh
As Australia demanded answers to the domestic violence crisis, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became a focal point in all the wrong ways when he got into a confrontation with a rally organiser on Sunday.But this week’s national cabinet meetin
As Donald Trump zeroed in on his successful 2016 run to the presidency, he began to engage in what is called “catch and kill” journalism.Trump and his lawyers developed relationships with journalists, who were allegedly prepared to track down
It feels like hardly a week goes by where we don’t hear about a woman in Australia being killed by a man she knows.Intimate partner deaths increased by almost a third during the last reporting year and early counts by advocacy groups suggest t
There are strict rules around how drug company representatives can interact with doctors to ensure they aren’t influencing how medications are prescribed.But when it comes to expensive medical devices inserted in our bodies during surgery – al
There’s an old adage in Canberra: every first-term government gets a second chance.But when voters head to the polls next year, could the current Labor government be an exception?With so many Australians feeling the cost-of-living crisis, and
When Australia’s eSafety commissioner issued takedown orders to some of the world’s biggest tech companies at the beginning of this week, the commissioner probably didn’t realise it would put us on the frontline of a global battle over the inte
The wait for elective surgery in our public hospitals is longer than ever, but it seems there’s a way to jump the queue.If you can afford to pay for private care in a public hospital, you might find yourself being offered more perks than just
An attack at a Western Sydney church last week was inextricably linked to social media.The bishop who was stabbed is a social media celebrity, the attack itself was live-streamed, and both the attack and the reaction may have been inflamed by
Grace Tame knows how to advocate. Her campaigning for survivors of sexual assault and abuse helped to create real change and pushed powerful institutions to be better.Now, Tame is turning her focus onto something she has lived with her whole l
It’s now been a week since the Federal Court of Australia’s Justice Michael Lee ruled it was substantially true that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittney Higgins in a minister’s office at Parliament House back in 2019.In other cases, that may have be
Today, columnist Elizabeth Farrelly will read her piece about our modern cities and how they relate to the history of how humanity has imagined the perfect city.Farrelly is one of Australia’s foremost writers on urban development and the commu
At the end of the day, the people who decide what path Australia takes to solve the housing crisis are those in government. In this episode, we speak to the federal minister for housing, Julie Collins.Does the government think we’re in a crisi
A solution to the housing crisis is one of the most sought-after ideas in Australia.Political careers, fortunes and the fate of a generation will rest on how we respond to the increasingly dire housing market, which means there are countless s
With federal, state and local governments promising to build more Australian homes, it’s fair to say that all levels of government want to fix the housing crisis.But are they building enough? Are they listening to the people they’re building i
With home ownership out of reach, more and more younger Australians have no choice but to rent for much longer than their parents ever did – maybe for the rest of their lives.That puts younger Australians at the mercy of landlords, making some
This is the first episode of 7am’s new five-part special series on the housing crisis.What happened to housing in Australia over the past few decades wasn’t by chance. It’s the result of decades of deliberate decisions that have turned us into
When Penny Wong took the lectern for the keynote speech at a conference on foreign affairs this week, she could have done what politicians usually do at these events.She could have delivered a mundane speech about the same challenges we all kn
Three years ago, Australia became the first nation in the world to make Facebook pay for news. Now, those deals are about to expire, and Facebook isn’t willing to renew them.That leaves Australia’s world-first deal hanging by a thread, and if
Australian Border Force and Western Australian police spent the weekend searching for 15 men who had arrived in the country by boat.Eventually, all 15 were arrested and put on a flight to Nauru.The arrival of this boat comes as the federal go
Former Channel Seven producer Taylor Auerbach has given extraordinary evidence at Bruce Lehrmann’s trial against Channel Ten over defamation.Auerbach’s evidence is significant enough that the judge sensationally reopened the case, and it could
The Albanese government was elected on a sense of optimism for the climate movement.But nearly two years later, there’s a growing sense of unease from the climate movement and traditional owners towards the government in Canberra.So, what’s g
Today, author and editor Sophie Cunningham reads her piece from a recent edition of The Saturday Paper.Australian author Georgia Blain chronicled her battle with cancer in a monthly column for The Saturday Paper, sadly passing away in 2016.Bl
Israel’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza has been met with international outrage.The workers at World Central Kitchen, including an Australian woman named Zomi Frankcom, were providing critical relief to Palestinians in the form of food.
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