Waleed Aly

What happens you instruct a million people to go to a tiny area, then bomb that place? Melting bodies. Netanyahu can’t call the Rafah deaths a “tragedy” of hindsight.

We now live in a world where even the savviest, best educated people cannot protect themselves. Australian banks should reimburse scam victims, as UK banks are set to do.

Without top 100 rankings, we lose our reputation as a place of high-quality education. Without that, things quickly snowball for locals wanting an education.

All democracies rely on some sense of shared information that makes deliberation possible. It would be unwise to look at the US and not see ourselves.

For the developer in the White House, every problem looks like it can be solved with hotels and casinos, but can we really take Trump’s words seriously?

Muslim Australia has a deeply entrenched conviction that the country simply doesn’t care about anything that happens to them.

Nobody should be shocked by the ceasefire breakdown between Israel and Hamas. Those with power see no incentive to end this war.

The Coalition’s move away from cost of living issues on the election’s eve shows how savagely the political winds have swung these past few months.

The more politics becomes a series of do-or-die existential battles in which the ends justify all manner of means, the more it moves from democracy towards war.

Trump has shown he can, if he is so motivated, simply require Israel to do things. Why, then, won’t he make Israel let more aid into Gaza or give up any designs on ethnically cleansing Gaza?