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The Yellowcake handshake: What the Australia-India uranium deal really signals

  When Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi shook hands in Melbourne on July 9, closing a stalemate that had outlasted three Australian prime ministers, the...

What Pauline Hanson might learn in a World Cup fan zone

Pauline Hanson's monoculture Australia has spent years arguing over national identity: what holds it together, what threatens it, and whether multiculturalism strengthens or weakens social...

Is the ‘Quad’ dying a slow death? Even with Trump, it still has a vital role to play

Quad Alliance Future Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional....

The day the Liberal Party lost its way

Liberal party's electoral decline The current decline of the Liberal Party of Australia may one day be traced back to a single political calculation: 5...

Bengal has spoken. Now listen.

Bengal Elections 2026 For fifteen years, West Bengal operated under a political arrangement that gradually hollowed out the idea of public life. Not through a...

The world’s largest democracy suffers a major blow

West Bengal elections There has always been a never-ending list of things that enamours the world about the nation that is India. But perhaps the...

Blockbusters to Ballots: Thalapathy Vijay

  I watched the results of Tamil Nadu’s election from Melbourne. Numbers glided like a live score; leads rose, dipped, then flipped again. Voice notes from...

Middle East war: Uncertainty today, strength tomorrow

  The war in the Middle East has dominated attention in recent weeks. Debate will continue over its causes and consequences, but events like these...

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