Politics

Labor MP Peter Khalil and Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Battle of Wills: Greens’ pro-Palestinian plan to grab prize Labor seat

Will Muslim voters in the working-class north of this Labor stronghold unite with middle-class progressives in the south to vote for Greens because of Gaza?

by Paul Sakkal and Broede Carmody

The architect of Australia’s student visa scheme says he did not design it to be used for a migration crackdown.

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International students

‘Frankenstein’s bride’: Student visa architect takes aim at Labor’s uni clampdown

by Angus Thompson

Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, 43, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza while helping to deliver food.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘Not good enough’: Israel may pay compensation to killed aid worker families

by Matthew Knott

European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, after her meeting with Australia’s climate and resources ministers.

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Trade

Europe’s energy chief wants Australia to help break China’s high-tech supremacy

by Mike Foley

Defence

Call for new ‘foreign’ battalion to fix defence recruiting crisis

by Matthew Knott

Opinion & Perspectives

So much litigation, so little clarity: The Lehrmann case is a sordid labyrinth

For so many involved, the grimy details of this defamation trial have strayed far from natural justice.

Jacqueline Maley

Columnist and senior journalist

The sick joke that insults our new GG – and Beyonce

I’m growing increasingly intolerant of pervasive negativity, and this week’s reaction to Sam Mostyn becoming governor-general set me off again.

Julia Baird

Journalist, broadcaster, historian and author

Channel Seven’s grubby Spotlight ‘exclusive’ puts my beloved trade to shame

I can see no excuse for the kind of abhorrent behaviour we’ve heard about at Channel Seven in recent days.

Ray Martin

Veteran broadcaster and journalist

Federal

Zomi Frankcom at a World Central Kitchen site in Gaza at the end of March.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Husic accuses Israeli government of ‘systemic failure’ over aid worker deaths

The Albanese government’s most senior minister of Muslim faith has delivered a stinging rebuke to the Israeli government after the deaths of seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom.