
Politics
May 1, 2022Morrison’s power without purpose
As prime minister, Scott Morrison has offered neither competence nor vision
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Politics
May 1, 2022Morrison’s power without purpose
As prime minister, Scott Morrison has offered neither competence nor vision
Politics
November 2, 2021How Australian public life has been diminished
Culture wars, climate wars and the bureaucratisation of writing have eroded the public sphere
Society
March 1, 2021The bin fire of the humanities
Casualisation and relentless cost-cutting have destroyed the credibility of Australian universities
Politics
July 1, 2020Coal cursed
The fossil-fuel lobby could not have created the climate wars so easily without the preceding culture wars
Politics
September 1, 2019Howard’s Heir: On Scott Morrison and his suburban aspirations
How the PM’s ‘Quiet Australians’ echoes Howard’s battlers and Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’
Politics
May 1, 2019The government’s appeal to self-interest groups
The Liberal Party has little left but pitches to the hip pocket
Politics
November 1, 2017A travesty of process
The same-sex marriage survey sets a dangerous precedent
Politics
August 1, 2017He will never stop
Tony Abbott seems determined to wreck the clean energy target
Politics
June 1, 2017The new Forgotten People
The wider cost of Australia’s housing affordability crisis
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October 7, 2016Lessons from Deakin
Alfred Deakin and the art of minority government
Politics
June 1, 2016Turnbull’s frolic
Can Malcolm Turnbull survive on optimism alone?
Culture
December 1, 2015Read about it
Deconstructing a decade in Frank Bongiorno’s ‘The Eighties’
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April 1, 2015The case for compromise
What modern politicians could learn from Alfred Deakin
Australian Politics
November 1, 2014One man, one vote
As captain of Team Australia, Tony Abbott has plunged us into war without debate
Society
August 1, 2014Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
The science is clear, but the way forward is not