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Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author and academic.

A boy waves an Iranian flag in front a police facility struck during the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday.

An oppressed people are, once again, lured onto the street only to have their hopes dashed

Celebrating is the natural response of those living under authoritarianism to news their tyrant is gone. So much is loaded into the moment. Like releasing a breath that has been held for decades.

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Why the scandal of the royal formerly known as Prince won’t remove Australia’s King

If you’re an Australian republican, you might see this scandal involving the man Anthony Albanese has called a “grub” as a pivotal moment.

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No good Muslims? Pauline Hanson has removed her racism fig leaf and mulched it

This story is not merely about the possibility of the Coalition moving to the right. It’s about One Nation outbidding them by moving even further that way too.

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The Muslim community is outraged by the behaviour of NSW police at Monday’s protest.

I’ve prayed in an MCG stairwell. Here’s the truth about that viral police video

It’s tempting in this hyper-political moment to assume everything is some kind of political confection, calculated to provoke or propagandise.

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Brace yourself for the full-throated politics of grievance

Inflation hits poorer people harder, which creates the very worst social equation: the wealthy can continue to spend, further stoking inflation. It creates a recipe for populism.

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Australia’s neo-Nazis are shape-shifting. And as dangerous as ever

Neo-Nazis have embraced the idea of swarms of independent cells – with no central control or direction – as a more effective way to produce chaos and social panic.

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Sussan Ley’s Coalition wedged itself. They can’t see a rake without stepping on it

We’ve seen oppositions destroy themselves over some divisive issue. But I don’t ever recall it happening over an issue they themselves foisted on the government.

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Too fast, too slow, too broad, too narrow ... Albanese’s hate speech critics agree on one thing

Legislation is not a press conference. It has to anticipate future situations and be coherent 20 years hence.

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To make sense of the Venezuela attack, look to the hotter heads around Trump

Perhaps the key to the Venezuela puzzle is to remember that Trump’s administration is made up of divergent factions. When it acts it is because one has prevailed, or the factions have agreed.

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Flower tributes at the footbridge where the Bondi shootings took place.

The Bondi gunmen and the threat of leaderless terrorism

Bondi does not seem to come from a world of “networks” and “cells”. All signs are it was much more self-driven than that.

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