Ali MC

As lead­ers of re­gion­al bloc meet in In­done­sia, cri­sis trig­gered by Feb­ru­ary 2021 mil­i­tary coup strikes close to home.

Let­ter on coro­na­tion eve urges monarch to ac­knowl­edge the ‘hor­rif­ic’ lega­cy of British colo­nial rule.

Aus­tralia is among democ­ra­cies curb­ing long-cher­ished civ­il and po­lit­i­cal lib­er­ties blam­ing more rad­i­cal pro­test­ers.

Kur­dish-Iran­ian writer and au­thor spent six years in de­ten­tion on Manus Is­land af­ter try­ing to get to Aus­tralia by boat.

Al­leged mur­der of Cas­sius is the lat­est in a num­ber of at­tacks on Aus­tralia’s In­dige­nous chil­dren and young peo­ple.

Six men held for years af­ter try­ing to get to Aus­tralia by boat look for­ward to start­ing new lives in New Zealand.

First na­tions rep­re­sen­ta­tives say the scale of the cli­mate cri­sis re­quires ‘un­prece­dent­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion’.

The vote, to test Aus­tralia’s in­ter­est in a re­pub­lic, will fol­low the ref­er­en­dum on an In­dige­nous voice to Par­lia­ment.

Coun­try seen as an ‘im­por­tant part­ner’ in a re­gion where Chi­na is be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly as­sertive.

A ref­er­en­dum is ex­pect­ed to be held as ear­ly as 2023, but cam­paign­ers say more needs to be done to tack­le in­equal­i­ty.