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Noel Turnbull 26/05/2022

Almost everyone will have ideas on what should be the priorities for the incoming Albanese government. While the manifesto was ...

Si Gladman 24/05/2022

Christian right lobby groups now have the Liberal Party they want – a lot more conservative and no doubt a ...

Emma Quilty 04/05/2022

Australia and the rest of the world have had a couple of very rough years. Throughout the pandemic and its ...

David James 27/04/2022

Journalism is a humble activity, or at least it should be. To be a reporter in a newsroom is to ...

Caroline Fisher 22/04/2022

During the federal election, politicians of all persuasions will use a range of campaigning and spin tactics. But there is ...

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 ...