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• Could a GST hike actually help poorer Australians?

  October 25, 2026 · 17 min

  When John Howard introduced the GST in the year 2000, Australians were largely unimpressed. More than 25 years later, some experts – including a former treasurer – say it’s time for an update. A new report from the independent think tank…

• The spy base we’re not supposed to know about is getting bigger

  October 24, 2026 · 18 min

  Once upon a time, Australians were told Pine Gap was a space research facility. Today, we know it's one of America's most important overseas intelligence bases – although much of what happens there remains secret. Now, Pine Gap is facing…

• Raf Epstein on a week that’s left him ‘punch drunk’

  October 23, 2026 · 18 min

  It’s been a week of shock and grief.  The attack on Helen Haines has left her family and the community she represents confronting a trauma that has reverberated across the country and whose consequences will endure long after the…

• The forgotten health crisis

  October 22, 2026 · 17 min

  In an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Congo, young children are being cared for by people in protective suits – isolated from the love and comfort of their families, who can only watch on from a window.  For paediatrician Rupa Narra, it…

• ‘A heap of hypocrisy’: Why Allegra Spender says the Helen Haines attack must change politics

  October 21, 2026 · 17 min

  You can see it in the drawn faces of the politicians lining up to speak about Helen Haines this week – Canberra has been shaken to its core. ASIO and the Australian Federal Police have been liaising with parliamentarians – some of whom…

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