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How do Germans remember – or forget – their colonial history and role in the Berlin Conference that carved up Africa?

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

The culture wars are perpetually waged in response to new and imagined threats, but they’ve been around forever. They just keep taking on new forms. In Australia, we’re seeing heated zero-sum disputes about everything from gender and sexuality, and race and religious freedom in schools, to climate change and the…

The British may have left the EU, but if recent films are to go by, their language remains centre stage

Preliminary data from the 2023 Intergenerational Report shows Australia’s population aged 85 and over is set to more than triple over the next 40 years. This will exacerbate existing strains on the aged-care system.

By restricting private health care choices, the NHS and other beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.

Heinrich and his cronies seem unlikely insurrectionists but their connections run back to Bismarck’s time

By sticking to the ‘art of the possible’ and accepting Brexit, Keir Starmer is doing the nation a disservice

The Albanese government has something of an embarrassment of intellectual riches, with no less than three of its MPs holding PhDs in economics. Two of them, Andrew Charlton and Andrew Leigh, are also prolific authors with at least a dozen books between them.