
Politics
September 1, 2021The pandemic and the shrinking of Australian politics
Rather than prompting reform, the COVID emergency has hardened the major parties’ neoliberal ideology
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Politics
September 1, 2021The pandemic and the shrinking of Australian politics
Rather than prompting reform, the COVID emergency has hardened the major parties’ neoliberal ideology
Society
November 1, 2020Woke politics and power
How liberalism’s blind spot let cancel culture bloom
Politics
July 1, 2013Inside Tony Abbott’s mind
What would an Abbott government look like?
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March 27, 2013The sport of killing leaders
Hollow the leader
‘On Warne’ by Gideon Haigh
On Warne. It sounds like a tome of grave significance. Mill On Liberty. Greer On Rage. No more elaborate title is necessary to justify the inquiry. The subject matter is so central to the human condition, so timeless, that we …
Indonesia
October 4, 2012In it together
Australia and Indonesia since the Bali bombings
Gold is good
The Olympics, Sport and National Pride
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August 2, 2012Comment: The Australian Solution
There was a Pacific Solution, a Malaysia Solution and, fleetingly, until someone thought to ask the Timorese, an East Timor Solution. But what exactly is the problem? I’m not asking rhetorically. It’s a serious question, perhaps the most …
Politics
June 30, 2011After spring
The struggle for liberation in the Middle East
Politics
March 25, 2010National curriculum
In late February, the Legislative Assembly in South Dakota passed a resolution urging public schools throughout the state to teach that “global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact”. Perhaps that’s true: I lack the scientific …
Culture
November 5, 2009Obscured by clouds
Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’
Politics
August 7, 2009Racism, Australian-style
For all Kevin Rudd’s fantasies of international leadership, Australia rarely impinges on the consciousness of the wider world. We are neither sufficiently powerful nor sufficiently strife-torn to command global attention. Our prime minister can slip …
Politics
June 1, 2009Patriot acts
Learning from America