HeyJaredAlex McDermott
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- Sep 18, 2026
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Liberal Party’s fall was about the C-word (opens the original)
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Too much contemporary commentary about the ultimate failure of the Coalition’s nine turbulent years in office falls into an enduring historiographical trap. The standard account in the books that have emerged so far, such as Paul Kelly’s Twilight of Exceptionalism and Niki Savva’s Road to Ruin and Plots and Prayers, presents the Coalition’s internal turmoil primarily as an elemental clash of personalities, particularly between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choos
Violence at the checkout unravels Australia’s social contract (opens the original)
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The news that Coles and Woolworths are testing facial recognition technology across their networks has been met with a mixture of civil-libertarian unease and grim corporate pragmatism. The raw data is stark, illustrating both the dramatic increase of routine verbal abuse and physical assaults visited on retail staff regularly. Woolworths reports a 26 per cent rise in violent incidents at supermarkets in the past year; Coles has spent somewhere in the region of $200 million across the last two y
Can Tony Burke do a Howard and outdo the populists on migration? (opens the original)
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For the senior ministers of the Albanese government – veterans of the Rudd-Gillard era – the politics of migration carry deep scar tissue. Events of this week have exposed Labor’s acute political anxiety as it struggles to manage the migration numbers. Tony Burke’s directive to his department to deprioritise overseas skilled worker visas in favour of applicants already in the country is a policy sleight of hand to instantly make new overseas arrivals appear lower. Burke also had to cancel Thursd
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