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Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author and academic. He is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and co-host of Channel Ten's The Project.

Identity politics has the power to be meaningful. If only we stopped making it an incoherent mess

Identity politics has the power to be meaningful. If only we stopped making it an incoherent mess

Since the resignation of Senator Fatima Payman, fretting about identity politics has become a renewed national sport. Now it’s the frame through which all political actions must pass.

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Do you recognise this man? He has 300 million die-hard fans but isn’t famous

Do you recognise this man? He has 300 million die-hard fans but isn’t famous

MrBeast created possibly the single largest mass-truancy event in Australian history this week, and yet you probably haven’t even heard of him.

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Robo-debt wasn’t fair or legal. Because of a loophole we’ll never know if it was also corrupt
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Robo-debt wasn’t fair or legal. Because of a loophole we’ll never know if it was also corrupt

Australians have been left with the troubling conclusion that the national anti-corruption body doesn’t believe in the importance of its role in a case like this.

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When you force people into a ‘safe zone’ then bomb it, ‘whoops’ doesn’t quite cut it

When you force people into a ‘safe zone’ then bomb it, ‘whoops’ doesn’t quite cut it

What happens you instruct a million people to go to a tiny area, then bomb that place? Melting bodies. Netanyahu can’t call the Rafah deaths a “tragedy” of hindsight.

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Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe

Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe

The more I heard the discourse around respect and violence, the more it reminded me of being told that it was up to all Muslims to own the problem of terrorism and solve it.

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The problem isn’t the definition of terrorism, it’s that the label determines our response
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The problem isn’t the definition of terrorism, it’s that the label determines our response

What happened at Bondi Junction isn’t any less horrific if we conclude it isn’t terrorism. The victims are no less dead, and their deaths are no less tragic. The problem of violence against women isn’t any less serious.

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Peter Dutton, friend of the working class. For now…

Peter Dutton, friend of the working class. For now…

In a desperate attempt to regain lost voters, Dutton’s 2.0 version of the Coalition is the party for the worker, but with no obviously pro-worker policies.

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The cold calculation behind our aid cuts to Gaza

The cold calculation behind our aid cuts to Gaza

The accusations against the United Nations agency helping Palestinians in Gaza are murky, but the consequences have been painfully clear.

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Want to hit Facebook where it really hurts? Outlaw its harvesting of our data

Want to hit Facebook where it really hurts? Outlaw its harvesting of our data

If the government aggressively attacked Facebook on its use of our data to target advertising and manipulate us, it would probably have the side effect of giving news organisations a chance.

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Enemies they may be, Taylor Swift and Donald Trump have a lot in common

Enemies they may be, Taylor Swift and Donald Trump have a lot in common

Billionaires were never popular, but they are almost reflexively reviled today in our time of rising inequality. Yet, here we see the exceptions to the rule.

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Insurance inquiry reveals one of Australia’s greatest paradoxes

Insurance inquiry reveals one of Australia’s greatest paradoxes

Australians have a habit of outsourcing very important things to profit-seeking businesses, then complaining when they behave like profit-seeking businesses.

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