Australian politics - Rationale Magazine

05 Nov

Built to break: Why One Nation’s coalition won’t survive power

Pauline Hanson has gathered Christian conservatives, neo-Nazi fellow travellers and anti-establishment mavericks under one banner, but ...

17 Oct

Law & Politics

The disconnect driving populist politics

05/11/2026
By Adam Wakeling
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In May 2025, the Albanese Labor government’s decisive victory suggested that the tides of populism which had inundated Europe and the U...

03 Sep

Law & Politics

Populists make a play in Australia’s fragmented political landscape

05/11/2026
By Jack Dikian
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Not even a stunt orchestrated by activist group GetUp! could derail One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s first appearance at the N...

08 Jul

Law & Politics

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

08/07/2025
By Jack Dikian
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Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United Kingdom sa...

12 May

Letters to the Editor

Will the Coalition ever learn to stop imposing religion on the public?

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

26 Apr

Law & Politics

Countering this election’s climate misinformation campaigns

26/04/2025
By Libby Lester
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Australia’s climate and energy wars are at the forefront of the federal election campaign as the major parties outline vastly different...

24 Jan

History

The dismissal: Truth at last

31/01/2024
By Geoffrey Barker
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The dismissal of the Whitlam government in November 1975 was the most devastating and potentially dangerous constitutional crisis in Au...

28 Nov

Feature series, Law & Politics

Between theocracy and democracy

17/12/2023
By Max Wallace
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This article is part of our ‘A secular Australian future’ feature series to mark the first Secularism Australia Conference

10 Aug

Business & Economics

How ‘neoliberalism’ became an insult in Australian politics

10/08/2022
By Henry Maher
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The much-debated term ‘neoliberalism’ again entered the political debate last week, with Greens leader Adam Bandt using a National Pres...

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