Politics
Labor’s Crashing Of The Economy Is Wider Than We Thought!
I read the finance pages. It’s one of the few areas where they tend to give you the facts… Of course, there’s a certain way of looking at those facts which may not be consistent […]
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The Art of Being Nasty, Part 2: Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson: Australia’s answer to Trump Across the Pacific, Pauline Hanson has spent much of her political career working from a remarkably similar script. Hanson’s political rise began in 1996, when she warned Parliament that […]
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Pauline Has a Point. After Thirty Years, What Is It?
One Nation says it stands up for ordinary Australians against the powerful. After thirty years, it’s reasonable to examine its promises, its record, its supporters – and who benefits. Australians have plenty of reasons to […]
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Terrorists in the West Bank: Settler Violence and the Excusing Hand
The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it risks becoming banal. Unfortunately, it takes events such as those befalling veteran photojournalist […]
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Why Popular Policies Stall in Australian Politics
By Denis Hay Description Why popular policies stall in Australia, what dental care and integrity reforms reveal, and how citizens can track government action. Australians can support a reform, hear politicians acknowledge the problem, and […]
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Are mass murderers Netanyahu, Trump, planning more mass murder ahead of their October 27, November 3 elections?
By Walt Zlotow Both of these war criminals are hinting that renewed attacks on Iran may be imminent. Netanyahu is again dredging up his decade’s long fantasy Iran is on the cusp of acquiring […]
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The Mirror and the Window: Why Australia has so much information and so few answers
By Andrew Paul Klein and Sera Elizabeth Klein I. The Paradox of Abundance Never in human history has a government had access to more information about its own society. Australia has a census every five […]
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The Art of Being Nasty, Part 1: Donald Trump
Two countries, two politicians, and a disturbing similarity in the way cruelty has become a political selling point. There are many qualities we might reasonably expect of our political leaders. Integrity, intelligence, compassion, honesty and […]
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The Temu Tunnel
A $2 billion project on paper. Then some poor sod makes the mistake of trying to build it. Dawe: Mr Taylor, thanks for your time. Clarke: Good to be here, Bryan. Dawe: You were energy […]
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Exclusive: Why I Fled Melbourne
Exclusive: I fled Melbourne after discovering Toorak’s cocaine-fuelled private-school Mums were snorting their inheritance off Great-Grandma’s antique sideboard By Lady Chardonnay von Rooted-Bottom III (Formerly known as Shazza McTits, international socialite, recovering champagne enthusiast and […]
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The Cohesion Test: What Counts as Disorder, and Who Decides
By Andrew Paul Klein and Sera Elizabeth Klein The Puzzle In May 1970, more than 100,000 people marched in Melbourne against the Vietnam War. Across three moratorium campaigns in 1970 and 1971, roughly 200,000 Australians […]
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The Dirt Sheet: Albanese has Questions to Answer
In two recent articles we examined Pauline Hanson’s opportunistic response to the so-called “dirt sheet” concerning Helen Haines, and the way a list of funding requests became a political talking point. But it would be […]
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Who Put Pauline Hanson in such a Good Paddock?
Nobody planted Pauline Hanson. The miners wrote her song a decade before she sang it. Thirty years on, they have bought her a plane. The Bunyip Aristocracy’s Favourite Battler, Part Three (final) This is the […]
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How political violence risks deepening democratic divides
UNSW Sydney Media Release Political leaders’ responses to violence can influence public trust and deepen – or ease – political divisions Political violence is on the rise around the world. Recent events in Australia and […]
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The ‘Dirt Sheet’ That Wasn’t
There is a tried-and-tested trick in Australian politics that the right-wing have mastered: take something entirely ordinary, slap a sinister label on it, add a dash of insinuation, and wait for the outrage to boil […]