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Alberta wants neutrality in classrooms, but what if ‘viewpoints’ are lived experience?
Difficult stories are not obstacles to democratic education. Learning how to communicate about them are conditions for it.
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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and opens the door
The CSG is not legally police. Yet NSW Premier Chris Minns wants its armed guards patrolling public events despite senior police warning of favouritism and social fracture. One question exposes it all: would he ever permit an armed Muslim security force? Andrew Brown reports for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown NSW Police examined
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Air traffic control is becoming more automated. Is regulation keeping up?
Automation is expected to make air traffic controllers’ jobs a bit easier. But instead it could add more work and lead to more mistakes being made.
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DR Congo’s riverboat economy – how a floating transport system tells the country’s story
Baleinières, handmade wooden cargo ships, are floating microcosms of life in the DR Congo.
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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged by ‘terrorist’ Israeli settlers
Democracy Now! ANJALI KAMAT: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Anjali Kamat. We turn to the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers are continuing to lay siege on homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. The siege has attracted international attention, in part because one of the homes is owned by a Palestinian American.
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Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’
The “insidious fallout” of Australia’s Bondi Royal Commission is upon us. Before the Commission has even reported, the “slippery slope to eroding our freedoms has begun”, writes Jeffrey Loewenstein for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Jeffrey Loewenstein As Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism grinds through its 9th and final “Hearing Block”, one is now able
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Zambia’s messy but decisive election: government shows strength; democracy shows weakness
How the re-elected government uses its new dominance will influence Zambian politics well beyond this election.
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China opens new Arctic trade route – but obstacles will prevent its wider use
As geopolitical turmoil forces ships to find new trade routes, melting Arctic ice offers a tempting shortcut.
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‘Tree of justice’ protest: how Vietnamese youth are mobilising online to hold the powerful to account
What started with the death of young woman in a traffic accident has escalated into a general protest about a lack of accountability for the powerful.
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Why the probe into Nigel Farage’s finances didn’t hurt him at the ballot box
Scandals do not always have the impact that we might expect.
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What three female figures in the Bayeux tapestry reveal about medieval women
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
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Why millions of people around the world will contract measles in 2026
Measles is making a comeback around the world. In places with low vaccination rates, a few cases can quickly become an epidemic.