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One week after the Bondi Beach massacre, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a review into Australia’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies. While the move acknowledges public concern, it also highlights a deeper and more uncomfortable truth: Australia’s national security architecture failed,…

A new and troubling report on the well-being of Australian children highlights that the nation is not on track to provide a fair, healthy, and sustainable future for its youngest citizens. According to authors including Professors Fiona Stanley and Sharon Goldfeld, children’s…

By now, the message from Athens could not be clearer: the return of the Parthenon Marbles is not just a cultural aspiration—it is a matter of historical justice. When Greece’s Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, declared in Parliament that “the goal for the…

Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital has found itself at the center of a storm over its controversial emergency department policy giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients automatic triage priority. While intended to address historical disparities in healthcare access, the policy has ignited fierce…

Every year on October 28, Greece commemorates one of the most defining and symbolic moments of its modern history — the day in 1940 when Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas responded with a single, powerful word, “Οχι” (“No”), to Mussolini’s ultimatum demanding the…

Australia’s upcoming aged care reform, taking effect on 1 November, 2025, marks the biggest transformation of the sector in 30 years. The government argues that older Australians should contribute more to the cost of their own care to keep the system financially…