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Sami Shah

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
11
Latest publication
Sep 25, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Crikey
Top 500K sites
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sami Shah

    Jim wants you to have another baby. Here's why that's unlikely (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Congratulations! You’re having a baby! Jim Chalmers was hoping you’d like to have another? According to the seventh intergenerational report, you’re part of an increasingly rare Australian experience, as the total fertility rate is projected to fall to 1.34 children per woman by 2065-66. Don’t worry though, we’re not going to become a barren wasteland with unattended toddlers roaming a blighted landscape. The same report predicts the populati

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Sami Shah

    No-one wants to be the first to slow down on AI (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. In 1899, the world’s major powers gathered at The Hague, summoned by a concerned Tsar Nicholas II. Orville and Wilbur Wright wouldn’t succeed in defying gravity for 12 seconds for another four years, but the implications of flying machines — and what it meant for innovations in mass destruction — were already being considered. Russia convened the First Hague Peace Conference to present, alongside proposals to restrict new firearms and new exp

  3. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Sami Shah

    Why you — yes, you — are racist (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Actually, let me be clearer: everyone reading this is racist. Because Australia is a racist country, as is Pakistan, as is every country in the world. That doesn’t mean all racisms are the same. Every nation, community, ethnicity and individual is racist in their own way. It’s as variable as your accent, which is ironically often a catalyst for abuse. Mine is anyway (shout out to the guy who called me a “fucking Indian” at Preston Market last

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Sami Shah

    Australia has dangerous ideas but no meaningful way to confront them (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. From time to time, people who book panel shows on TV and for various festivals will feel their fingernails scraping against the barrel bottom and invite me. Motivated either by the desperate need for the meagre booking fee or pure ego, I’ll sometimes say yes — which put me on a stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas last week. I have nothing but admiration for the ambition of the organisers, but I’ll risk honesty and say I’ve never found an

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Sami Shah

    Migration panic is Australia's Pennywise, laying dormant until the time is right (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. In Stephen King’s It, every few years the monster living under the town wakes up and feeds on whatever fear is available, taking the form people are already primed to recognise, while everyone reacts as though they’re seeing it for the first time. The horror isn’t just Pennywise the shape-shifting clown; it’s how everyone keeps forgetting about him. Migration panic is Australia’s Pennywise. The monster’s appearance changes because fear needs

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