Should we push for a better UN that doesn’t reward the powerful by making them unaccountable? Absolutely. Should we scrap it altogether? No.

I’m a human rights lawyer who in 2013 helped Indigenous communities in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest win a historic $10 billion pollution case against Chevron for one of the world’s worst environmental ...

Besser won a Walkley award for reporting that included investigating the ABC chair, but says there is still ‘lots of awkwardness’ in reporting on other journalists * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Linton Besser won the coveted role of ABC Media Watch host, he was keenly aware he was taking on a TV program with a highly engaged audience and a storied 36-year legacy. “I didn’t want to break it,” the former foreign correspondent and investigative reporter says. Continue reading...

No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.

Australia’s multicultural society is not a modern experiment or a social crisis. It is the product of shared effort, grounded in First Nations custodianship and strengthened by generations of migrants...

Despite populist complaints, conservative governments have allowed immigration to rise, but Labor also ‘walks both sides of the street’ The Coalition is expected in coming weeks to reveal the broad outlines of a policy platform centred around deep cuts to migrant numbers. But which numbers are they talking about? Are they talking about net overseas migration? Or are they worried about the visa programs? If so, is it the permanent stream or the temporary? Continue reading...

Corruption in politics is not an accident or an exception. It is a predictable outcome of a system that rewards loyalty, access and survival over accountability, transparency and the public interest.

Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do...

The end of violence must be a first step in the Sudan Civil War. And Australia has a key role to play.

The PM has labelled the Whitlam Dismissal a 'calculated plot' and a 'partisan political ambush' 50 years on, and more Liberal MPs could quit the party's frontbench if it axes net zero.

Stories about automation eliminating jobs and reducing wages were once common. But a comprehensive analysis of its actual impact paints a less ominous picture.

The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If thi...

Only 9% of plastics ever made have been recycled. Clever industry campaigns have shifted the costs of their own waste onto consumers.

Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...

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The world's largest private coal developer is trying to silence journalists reporting on fossil fuels and corporate corruption. This time they’ve gone too far. Just in the past year, billionaire chair

Exclusive: Foreign secretary says world has ‘reached moment’ it wants to end war after Donald Trump signals plan within reach The international community is on the brink of securing a peace deal for Gaza that could finally bring an end to two years of conflict and a humanitarian crisis that has claimed thousands of lives, Yvette Cooper has suggested. The new foreign secretary, who has just returned from a UN summit, said that they had “reached a moment where the world wants to end this war” after US president Donald Trump indicated a peace deal was within reach. Continue reading...

Sign to demand the withdrawal of a song threatening the LGBT+ community in Cameroon. Protect the rights and safety of all.

Cancer scientists have been working against the clock for decades to outsmart a disease that comes back more powerfully after treatment. Traditional treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, and even n...

Technological advances spark social revolutions. Deforestation can have a net cooling effect. Warming makes droughts more severe. China leads the energy transition but still a long way from net zero.

Hungary has banned Pride marches, threatening LGBT+ rights and the freedom to protest. Sign the petition now to urge the EU to act before it’s too late. Every voice matters – help defend human rights ...