Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

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This latest chapter in the Middle East’s bloody history raises a basic question: what is the end game? As Israel contemplates its response to Iranian missile attacks that have exposed the limitations ...

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At a time when a special series on schools means for the Age “celebrating schools that achieve outstanding improvement in their VCE results over a decade”; when think tanks assume that to think about ...