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The Dunkley by-election will be fought and lost on kitchen table issues. But it is a distant conflict that is piling pressure on political parties and even the national broadcaster.

The librarians of the National Library have put together their top picks for summer holiday reading.

Islam is incompatible with Western civilisation, which Islamists and knowledgeable Muslims fully grasp. On the other hand, the deluded political and media Left don’t know it or, more often, don't want to know it, clinging instead to a baseless Micawberish hope that fourteen centuries of conquest and belief in Muslim superiority is but a passing phase

The billionaire Meriton founder is opposing heritage protection of a Bondi synagogue designed by Australia’s most famous modernist architect.

In his latest book, Fact and Fiction, Nicholas Hasluck draws upon the diaries he kept while serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. These provide not only a picture of judicial life but also an account of writing Dismissal, his novel about the final days of the Whitlam government. What follows are thoughts and recollectionss on the events of and before November 11, 1975

As war rages between Israel and Hamas, so the rivalries play out 12,000km away in Australia.

“We agree with the central proposition, that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire and human suffering is widespread and unacceptable,” Larsen said.“The resolution did not recognise terror group Hamas as the perpetrator of the 7 October attack, and Australia again explicitly calls for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages.”https:

For at least half a century the Australian Labor Party has been grappling with its position on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

It should be no surprise that Australians have proved they are not in the mood to change the Constitution. They never are when opposition enters the fray.

The Asian giant is the source of significant numbers of migrants and its burgeoning economy offers opportunities for investment.