Waleed Aly
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.
Opinion
Political leadership
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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Social media
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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NACC
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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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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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Domestic violence
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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Crime
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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Political leadership
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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Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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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Social media
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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Billionaires
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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General insurance
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.
- by Waleed Aly