By this author
Howard’s Heir: On Scott Morrison and his suburban aspirations
Politics
How the PM’s ‘Quiet Australians’ echoes Howard’s battlers and Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’
A travesty of process
Politics
The same-sex marriage survey sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s appeal to self-interest groups
Politics
The Liberal Party has little left but pitches to the hip pocket
He will never stop
Politics
Tony Abbott seems determined to wreck the clean energy target
The new Forgotten People
Politics
The wider cost of Australia’s housing affordability crisis
Lessons from Deakin
blog
Alfred Deakin and the art of minority government
Turnbull’s frolic
Politics
Can Malcolm Turnbull survive on optimism alone?
Read about it
Culture
Deconstructing a decade in Frank Bongiorno’s ‘The Eighties’
The case for compromise
nation_reviewed
What modern politicians could learn from Alfred Deakin
One man, one vote
Australian Politics
As captain of Team Australia, Tony Abbott has plunged us into war without debate
Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
nation_reviewed
The science is clear, but the way forward is not
James Brown’s ‘Anzac’s Long Shadow’
arts
Redback; $19.99
The triumphalism of Tony Abbott
Liberal Party
The Liberals' winner-takes-all political payback
