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Trevor Bell 20/04/2022

Adam Bandt’s appearance at the National Press Club may well be remembered in Australian political folklore for the response to ...

Anika Stobart 14/04/2022

So the federal election is on. Billboards are suddenly plastered with party slogans, campaign ads are all around us, and ...

Reg Naulty 09/04/2022

What precipitated Shashi Tharoor’s new book, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy, is the path ...

Richard Lachman 06/04/2022

As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with ...

Noel Turnbull 25/03/2022

This article is published in two parts. You can read Part 1 here. Despite George Orwell’s Politics and the English ...

Noel Turnbull 24/03/2022

There has been much social science research on polarisation recently – some assisted by AI-driven analysis of social media; some ...

Gary Bakker 12/02/2022

In this era of a greater focus on individual human rights, many minorities and oppressed or ignored sections of society ...

Luke Beck 07/02/2022

The Religious Discrimination Bill is due to be debated in parliament this week. This has been a long time coming ...

Michael Duffy 31/01/2022

As Buckingham Palace recently announced plans for an elaborate year of celebrations to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, a world ...

Verity Trott 25/01/2022

Grace Tame is an artist, an activist, a yoga teacher and a runner. She’s also a sexual assault survivor who ...

Bhante Akāliko 18/01/2022

As a Buddhist monk and a community leader, I have a particular interest in matters of religious discrimination and a ...

Trevor Bell 14/01/2022

When talking about ‘democracy’, ‘capitalism’ and ‘market economies’, many people confuse the terminology and the benefits that flow from these ...