Amid rising hate speech and tighter laws, something deeper festers. In a culture wired for outrage and shaped by tribal ...

As war rages, the climate suffers and inequality grows, the ancient idea of Jubilee feels newly urgent. Can an economy built ...

Covid offered a rare chance to reimagine the role of the state. What might have become a pivot to care and collective ...

Australia’s Federal Budget offers a mix of tax cuts, spending increases, and modest relief for households, but fails to ...

The origins of Australian Rules Football are officially recorded, but not necessarily complete. As new questions emerge about ...

Glide were an ’90s Australian band set for big things - a new documentary is a cautionary tale about how critical success ...

With America's reliability in question, Australia is rethinking what security really means. Should it double down on military ...

As campus protests grow increasingly disruptive, universities face an uncomfortable choice: uphold students’ right to protest ...

Europe’s escalating defence spending, driven by the Russian threat, marks a shift toward militarisation. The EU’s new budget ...

Across a range of divisive issues from gender to race to public health, newsrooms are increasingly blurring the line between ...

I first met Frank Brennan almost 20 years ago, when I was in Australia as a part of an international Jesuit formation program. I had no idea who he was, the work he’d done over many decades with First ...

As Australia approaches another federal election, the Catholic Church, long ambivalent about democratic politics, prepares to weigh in. Its official statement could play it safe, as in years past — or ...