As prime minister, Scott Morrison has offered neither competence nor vision

Culture wars, climate wars and the bureaucratisation of writing have eroded the public sphere

Casualisation and relentless cost-cutting have destroyed the credibility of Australian universities

The fossil-fuel lobby could not have created the climate wars so easily without the preceding culture wars

How the PM’s ‘Quiet Australians’ echoes Howard’s battlers and Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’

The Liberal Party has little left but pitches to the hip pocket

The same-sex marriage survey sets a dangerous precedent

Tony Abbott seems determined to wreck the clean energy target

The wider cost of Australia’s housing affordability crisis

Alfred Deakin and the art of minority government

Can Malcolm Turnbull survive on optimism alone?

Deconstructing a decade in Frank Bongiorno’s ‘The Eighties’

What modern politicians could learn from Alfred Deakin

As captain of Team Australia, Tony Abbott has plunged us into war without debate

The science is clear, but the way forward is not