From Plato’s Republic to modern conflict, the pattern repeats: justice invoked, war justified, power deciding the outcome.

War does not begin where we expect it. When war arrives, it arrives in fragments, after many missed chances to leave. The last normal day passes unnoticed, and only later is it recognised for what it ...

As war and instability dominate attention, a more fundamental crisis lies beneath them. Water scarcity, shaped by climate change, technology and conflict, now tests whether nations can cooperate at ...

A Vatican report on women deacons offers caution where many expected clarity. By deferring change while reaffirming existing limits, it raises fresh doubts about how the Church understands equality — ...

We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online ...

As regional conflict escalates, represed Kurdish political movements are re-emerging as potential actors in Iran’s future. A ...

Every generation confronts the same uneasy dilemma: when evil threatens the vulnerable, can refusing violence become a form of complicity? Yet literature, philosophy and history suggests that ...

Social psychologist Hugh Mackay reflects on loneliness, neighbourliness and the habits that sustain a humane society, arguing ...

From a chair on Australia’s shopping strips, a busker occupies a quiet vantage point on civic life. Between coins dropped in ...

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader has shaken a regime that once seemed immovable. Yet as pressure on the Islamic Republic grows, the opposition remains divided by ideology, history and mistrust, ...

Two weeks before the Bondi attacks, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry published alarming figures showing that since October 7 2023, antisemitic incidents in Australia had reached historically ...