Flag politics and Australia Day debates are shaping up to be key themes in conservative political discourse in the months ahead.
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While the split between those who want to change the date and those who want to keep it has not changed, those who oppose feel more strongly about it than ever.
The 41-year-old from South Australia is the first Australian to qualify as an astronaut under the country’s national space program.
The right-wing populist party continues to climb in polling following the Bondi terror attack, mostly at the expense of the Coalition.
A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.
A new survey shows a solidifying of views on the Australia Day date across the country, but young people remain in favour of changing it.
While two-party preferred polling is steady, a majority of Australians support Labor’s changes to the stage 3 tax cuts.
New polling shows a significant drop in support for January 26 in just two years.
Pioneers in melanoma treatment, professors Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer, are the joint 2024 Australians of the Year.
After the Voice to Parliament referendum, researchers asked a sample of Australians how they felt about issues including changing the date of Australia Day.
Profits, not social justice, appear to be why the big grocers are dropping support for Australia Day. But creating a distraction when they’re being criticised for high prices is also possible.
The former president leads his only remaining Republican rival, Nikki Haley, by 68% to 12% in an aggregate of national polls.
Many believe Australia became it’s own country at federation in 1901, but that’s not strictly true. Instead, it happened more than 80 years later. Why don’t we celebrate it?
May 9 is the date the first Australian parliament met, and when the first parliament in Canberra and the first on Capital Hill opened. It means far more than the King’s birthday, or January 26.
January 26 brings debate about whether the day of invasion should be celebrated. People seem to ignore it was just the beginning of the oppression of Indigenous peoples.
Australia Day has not always been celebrated on January 26, and the meaning of the date has been contested historically and today.
The four recipients “share a common bond – using their life experience as a power for good, helping others around them and making the world a better place
A new national survey shows the majority of Australians want the day left as it is. But it also suggests a groundswell for change is in the works.
First Nations media are leading better conversations about the significance of the day – and issues facing Indigenous communities every day of the year.
A new book provides the first detailed history of honours in Australia. It turns out Australians have long been debating how the system should work.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of History, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor in History, Deakin University
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Chair in Contemporary History, Deakin University
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Professor of Sociology and Social Research, Deakin University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Professor of History and Politics, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer, Media, University of Tasmania
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Professor, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law, UNSW
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Professor Physiology, Endocrinology, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)