Fights over multiculturalism and gender are hiding the core of the nation’s despair — rising economic inequality, reports Mark Kenny.

The modern fact-checking movement launched 25 years ago but is now in retreat — just as it’s needed more than ever. Ned Watt and Michelle Riedlinger report.

Cost-of-living pressures, terror attacks and widening inequality - it's little wonder Australians are angry. Yet danger lies in scapegoating, writes Alan Gamlen…