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The Pacific tuna fight is about labour, sovereignty and the price of cheap fish

Tuna can appear on a supermarket shelf as a simple product: a can, a fillet, a lunchbox protein, a price. What disappears behind that simplicity is the oce

The Telstra outage shows critical infrastructure can fail in surprisingly small places

Critical infrastructure usually fails in public imagination through dramatic images: a storm tears down lines, a cyberattack locks screens, a flood takes o

Australia’s online-hate inquiry is really a test of platform accountability

Online hate is often discussed as if it were only a content-moderation problem: remove the worst posts, suspend the worst users, publish a transparency rep

Lower city speed limits are a road-safety policy, not a war on drivers

Reducing a speed limit sounds minor until it touches the everyday politics of streets. A few kilometres per hour becomes an argument about commute times, d

The birthright citizenship fight is really about who can live without legal doubt

Citizenship is most powerful when it is boring. A child is born, documents are issued, rights attach, and a family can plan life without wondering whether

Europe’s heatwave is a public-health warning, not only a weather story

Heatwaves are deceptive disasters. They rarely produce the single cinematic image that defines a flood or earthquake. Instead, harm accumulates in apartmen

Hormuz shows why reopening a chokepoint is not the same as restoring trust

A maritime chokepoint does not reopen the moment a deal is signed. It reopens when shipowners, insurers, crews, port operators and energy buyers believe th

Venezuela’s earthquakes are now a test of rescue capacity and trust

The first hours after a major earthquake are measured in sound: voices under rubble, concrete being cut, family members calling names, phones ringing unans

Sudan’s War Is Becoming A Test Of Humanitarian Access, Not Only Aid Money

Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is difficult to absorb because the scale has become almost too large for ordinary language. Millions of people have been displa