March 1, 2021
The bin fire of the humanities
Society
Casualisation and relentless cost-cutting have destroyed the credibility of Australian universities
Judith Brett
By this author
September 1, 2019
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’
July 1, 2020
Coal cursed
Politics
The fossil-fuel lobby could not have created the climate wars so easily without the preceding culture wars
May 1, 2019
The government’s appeal to self-interest groups
Politics
The Liberal Party has little left but pitches to the hip pocket
November 1, 2017
A travesty of process
Politics
The same-sex marriage survey sets a dangerous precedent
August 1, 2017
He will never stop
Politics
Tony Abbott seems determined to wreck the clean energy target
June 1, 2017
The new Forgotten People
Politics
The wider cost of Australia’s housing affordability crisis
October 7, 2016
Lessons from Deakin
blog
Alfred Deakin and the art of minority government
June 1, 2016
Turnbull’s frolic
Politics
Can Malcolm Turnbull survive on optimism alone?
December 1, 2015
Read about it
Culture
Deconstructing a decade in Frank Bongiorno’s ‘The Eighties’
April 1, 2015
The case for compromise
nation_reviewed
What modern politicians could learn from Alfred Deakin
November 1, 2014
One man, one vote
Australian Politics
As captain of Team Australia, Tony Abbott has plunged us into war without debate
August 1, 2014
Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
Society
The science is clear, but the way forward is not