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Julianne Schultz

Julianne Schultz

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Australia’s populist right embraces unconstrained freedom of expression – but only when it suits them

Once upon a time in a country far away from the Australia we know today, the impulse to ban and censor politically challenging and sexually explicit...

25.05.2024 20

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It’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the climate

11.05.2024 60

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None of us saw digital colonialism coming. Now we must live with its consequences

In the early 1980s hand-written chalk signs started appearing on the sidewalks of my grungy Manhattan neighbourhood: Whoever has the most toys when he...

10.05.2024 50

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Collective trauma has brought Australians together but rising inequality is leaving many behind

If only nation-building could happen by putting a sign on a building and creating a capital A authority. Rob Sitch’s stunning embodiment in Utopia...

20.04.2024 10

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Australia claims it is a multicultural success story. So why does it want to use godlike laws to ringfence the nation?

Australians are rightly proud that the White Australia policy, once described as our Magna Carta, withered and finally died 50 years ago. But the...

06.04.2024 8

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The brutal reality is that Australia’s media is broken and policy tinkering will not help

When the owner of the The Cairns Post opened a new office for his newspaper in 1908 he aimed high. The entrance was distinguished by a temple front...

16.03.2024 30

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Queensland’s violent past deserves scrutiny – with facts, not finger-pointing

The banco court in Brisbane carries a potent reminder that there are very different, and sometimes incompatible, ways of seeing the world; that there...

02.03.2024 7

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If politics is personal, is it any wonder women are becoming more progressive?

On the same day that new global research showed young women in country after country were becoming more politically progressive, 47 million people...

10.02.2024 20

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Australia celebrates ‘lest we forget’ while embracing the opposite to keep some things in the ‘best we forget’ basket

The unequal battle between remembering and forgetting is as old as time. For individuals, forgetting can be the best way of “tricking the body into...

28.01.2024 40

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Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation

Brunswick Heads is an idyllic town perched between a river and the sea near Byron Bay. It was once best known for its abundance of caravan parks and...

09.12.2023 8

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The news has become intolerable and inhumane. Democracy’s vital feedback mechanism is broken

It is little wonder that people are turning off the news in record numbers. The images are often unwatchable, the descriptions beyond imagining, the...

18.11.2023 10

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How much does Australia really care about democracy and the constitution? Maybe we need our own Hamilton

The waitlist for the Hamilton pre-sale has opened and eager theatregoers are urged to register if they want to get tickets. Nine years after it...

05.11.2023 5

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We can no longer blame the British colonialists for our failings. This has become our original sin

Many Australian people wanted to do the right thing but on 14 October we failed. In the process we proved Aboriginal folklore about us is right. In...

21.10.2023 7

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It’s time for our better angels to prevail at the voice referendum – for the sake of those we’ve been harshly judging for two centuries

N ot long after Aboriginal people were finally allowed to vote in Queensland in 1965, Jackie Huggins’ primary school teacher, Mrs Roberts, asked to...

08.10.2023 60

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It doesn’t take a lot for things to fall apart. And mistrust and distrust are pushing us to the brink

In 1920, halfway through the Irish war of independence from centuries of colonial control, W.B. Yeats published a poem, The Second Coming, which has...

01.10.2023 60

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Observer letters Men deserve care and compassion too

I understand why Martha Gill considers the idea of a minister for men “insulting”, when society remains dominated by male power and women bear the...

17.09.2023 9

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The Observer view on Labour’s plans to scrap our cruel, unworkable asylum policy

In recent months, the man who looks increasingly likely to be Britain’s next prime minister has been treading a cautious line. Keir Starmer has made...

17.09.2023 9

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I thought the voice debate might turn Australians into constitutional experts. I was wrong

W hen the Indigenous voice slogan History is Calling first hit the airwaves last year I contemplated what a gift it would be if 2023 became the year...

17.09.2023 10

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