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How women are copping it from all sides over fertility rates 

Women and girls are being held responsible for national and global demographics by under- and over-population scaremongers alike.

Here's to another 12 months of Theresa May

Moments like these make us delighted the British PM has managed to cling on to power for another year.

May survives (for now) as the UK hurtles toward a Brexit crash-out

The Brexit situation is now head-bangingly complex.

Hakeem Al-Araibi being escorted from a courthouse in Bangkok (Image: AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

The question no one will answer about Hakeem Al-Araibi

This arrest could have huge ramifications for other refugees who have been granted asylum by Australia. We need answers.

Why the arrest of Huawei’s CFO has the world on edge

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou may restart the US-China trade war, but it will just be a headwind of the looming global financial crash.

Australian actor Rachel Griffiths speaks to the media after appearing before a modern slavery inquiry last year. (Image: AAP/Joe Castro)

Modern slavery is propped up by corporate culture as much as dodgy supply chains

Modern slavery is two things: it is an act and it is an attitude. It is that second fact that will be hardest to deal with.

The migrant caravan.(Image: International Organisation of Migration/Rafael Rodríguez)

Forget the US: how Mexico responded to the 'migrant caravan'

Contrasts in how migrants were received in different parts of Mexico reflect the current international crisis of border control.

A Papuan student protester holds a banner that reads, "Free Papuan People". (Image: EPA/Fully Handoko)

West Papua is in turmoil

Last Saturday marked widespread protests across Indonesia by West Papuan students and other activists.

Shadow Minister for Defence Richard Marles and Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne.

More tariffer than thou: protectionists wage holy war on each other

What makes a protectionist? Willingness to waste money, or true faith in the power of trade barriers?

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Marriage equality suffers a blow in Taiwan referendum

Many had hoped that Taiwan could continue as a beacon for acceptance of LGBTIQ people in Asia, a region where same-sex relationships are still regularly criminalised.