Rather than prompting reform, the COVID emergency has hardened the major parties’ neoliberal ideology

How liberalism’s blind spot let cancel culture bloom

What would an Abbott government look like?

Hollow the leader

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 …

Australia and Indonesia since the Bali bombings

The Olympics, Sport and National Pride

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 …

The struggle for liberation in the Middle East

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 …

Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’

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 …

Learning from America