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They’re bidding for our votes with our visas

Pauline Hanson told Parliament in 1996 that Asians were swamping the country. Thirty years on, One Nation is polling above a fifth of the...

From Melbourne to Madrid, housing is shaping modern politics

Housing Politics Spain is in the middle of a political reckoning over housing. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early election for November...

Vic Election 2026: The ‘orange wave’ is coming. Are we ready for it?

  With seven weeks till what Antony Green calls the most consequential state election in his lifetime, the haze is slowly clearing on voting intentions...

The vote goes with the passport. Does the voice too?

  When Imran Khan joined a CJP protest at August Kranti Maidan on 10 October, he was one face in a crowd demanding the resignation...

When pessimism looks for someone to blame

  There is a worrying mood taking hold in Australia: not simply concern about migration, housing or the cost of living, but a growing sense...

Why is women’s safety still a question mark?

  Fifteen years ago, I was a student at Delhi University (DU). Growing up in Delhi meant the reflexes came before the reading lists: keys...

Wooing the diaspora: Indian brands set up shop Down Under

  MTR aka Mavalli Tiffin Room opened its first Australian restaurant in Sydney this week. The 102-year-old Bengaluru institution, known for its dosas, filter coffee...

India’s middle‑class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising

India’s Middle-Class Crisis The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be explained in large part by the crisis facing the Indian middle class,...

How our post-Nepal disaster remittance is crucial climate action

  On 26th August, across the Nepal-Tibet border, what seems like a sudden ice-rock avalanche or glacier collapse sent massive volumes of debris and water...

This Independence Day, let’s fix India’s broken ladder

India’s broken ladder Every 15 August, India celebrates freedom. The flags go up, the tricolour flies from balconies, schoolchildren sing Vande Mataram and political leaders...

Gold in Glasgow. Billions in Ahmedabad.

Australia-India sports collaboration As Australian athletes topped the medal tally at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the country's sports industry has a US$130 billion reason...

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