Lucy Hamilton

Lucy is Melbourne born and based. She studied humanities at Melbourne and Monash universities, until family duties killed her PhD project. She is immersed in studying the global democratic recession.

Voting for the LNP could actually shorten your life

There’s a reason that the Atlas Network’s “think” tanks – and their political partners – around the world target education.…

6 days ago

“The Australian”: tool of the Alliance for Responsible Leadership?

The Australian has made itself the newspaper of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. This reflects the fact that Australia’s Right…

4 weeks ago

Alex Carey: a century of business taking the risk out of democracy

Jeff Bezos recently announced that the Washington Post would henceforth dedicate its op/ed pages to “free markets and personal liberties”.…

1 month ago

“Activist Judges:” around the world “conservative” activists are trying to nobble the law

One of the key strategies used by the transnational authoritarian Right to subvert democratic projects is “playing the refs.” Their…

2 months ago

Australians for Responsible Citizenship and NatCon: networks of networks

It is easier to understand the constant war drums in support of Israel in Australia's rightwing spaces if one pays…

2 months ago

Russell Vought and the junktanks that turned the 2021 insurrection into a coup

In assessing which Trump appointment is more dangerous, Russell Vought freshly confirmed to helm the Office of Management and Budget…

2 months ago

Why is Atlas going after Prince Harry?

Wonkette pointed out today that the key force trying to have Prince Harry deported from the US is the Heritage…

2 months ago

Is “Bad Faith”‘s Council for National Policy the Atlas Network’s half-brother?

The Council for National Policy is the ultra-secret body tracked in the documentary Bad Faith. Are the Mont Pelerin Society…

2 months ago

Australians must not ignore the Religious right’s global warnings 2.0

This essay was first published at the AIMN in September 2022. Since then the world has changed dramatically. Much of…

3 months ago

The Atlas Network talking about itself

There is much to learn about the Atlas Network from one of Ron Manners’ Mannkal Economic Education Foundation newsletters. This…

3 months ago