No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

No compromise:Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.

  • byDavid Crowe

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Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google&Co

Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google&Co

The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants,even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
WA’s most senior librarian gears up to fight censorship
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Albany

WA’s most senior librarian gears up to fight censorship

In the wake of a campaign by a conservative advocacy group to restrict access to two sexual education books to over-16s,the State Library said it would continue to support and defend intellectual freedoms.

  • byHamish Hastie
China’s censors are letting Kanye West perform there. His fans are amazed

China’s censors are letting Kanye West perform there. His fans are amazed

Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.

  • byVivian Wang
When art and politics collide:The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart

When art and politics collide:The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart

Sackings,boycotts,sponsorship withdrawals:arts organisations across the country are in turmoil. So who has the right to say what?

  • byKerrie O'Brien
What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides

What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides

Culture wars have many fronts but the Israel/Hamas conflict has supercharged unlikely battles over free speech,discrimination and the nature of protest.

  • byJacqueline Maley
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The free-speech billionaires are losing the war

The free-speech billionaires are losing the war

Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have been asking for trouble. It has found them.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Elon Musk saying civil war is inevitable is not inciting violence. Here’s why
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Elon Musk saying civil war is inevitable is not inciting violence. Here’s why

Beware the online-harm brigade,or we’ll have police on our doorsteps as fast as we can say boo online.

  • byJosh Szeps
An increasingly uncomfortable world:Loss of skiing a minor issue in the climate change context

An increasingly uncomfortable world:Loss of skiing a minor issue in the climate change context

Loss of snow cover is further proof,if any were needed,that our climate is changing – and not for the better.

Cumberland Council should reverse its same-sex library book ban

Cumberland Council should reverse its same-sex library book ban

One councillor against the book ban says it contradicts Cumberland’s motto of “Welcome,Belong,Succeed”.

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‘Copycat’ book bans:How US activists are impacting Australian libraries

‘Copycat’ book bans:How US activists are impacting Australian libraries

Best-selling Australian author Amie Kaufman,whose books have been banned in the US,is warning against importing a culture war over literature.

  • byKerrie O'Brien