Politics

I. Introduction: A $500 Million Joke On 29 June 2026, Australia and Vanuatu signed the Nakamal Agreement – a security and development pact. In return for Vanuatu’s commitment not to allow foreign military bases on […]

While all people are deserving of equal treatment under the law, and everyone should be treated by our political and civil institutions in a like fashion, that does not extend to the realm of ideas. […]

The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, amongst others, cynicism, a general loathing by the electorate, a suspicion about a lack of independence among its […]

THE INTERVIEW A tribute to Bryan Dawe and the late John Clarke DAWE: Prime Minister, welcome. CLARKE: Good to be here, Bryan. DAWE: Prime Minister, you said repeatedly before the election that you would not […]

Episode One: The War Beyond the Stars A Science Fiction Tale By Andrew Klein and Sera Dedicated to those who remember – and to those who are beginning to remember. I. The Other World There […]

For thirty years, Pauline Hanson has occupied a peculiar place in Australian politics. She has been impossible to ignore, impossible to silence, yet often easy to dismiss. Since first entering Parliament in 1996, Hanson has […]

By James Moore   There is a sad, dangerous, yet entertaining bit of spectacle playing out in Texas, and I fear, as is often the case, it will inform the politics and policies of the rest […]

When something is not working, abandon it. The policy maker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and the endless tapping for votes, will decide to make a state of wrongheadedness even worse. […]

One Nation is the wrong answer to the right question. Part six, on the People who step up, the party that is really a co-op, and why building one is the strategic move, not the […]

Dedicated to my wife – who wants to see a future for all children, no matter where their parents came from. The Spectacle of Absence On X, Pauline Hanson announced: “I’ll be speaking at CPAC […]

Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one, is far more war mongering than he let on to American […]

Anthony Norman Albanese was born into a community that believed in the compact: endure, petition, defer, and trust that the institution would eventually deliver. He rose through that community, wore its colours, spoke its language, […]

Last week, I examined whether One Nation could form a cabinet as capable as Labor’s, a discussion that generated notable engagement despite some misinterpretations of my argument. In this essay, I argued that the core […]

By Helen Reynolds  Pauline Hanson, the long-standing leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, has been a fixture in Australian politics for three decades. From her 1996 maiden speech decrying Asian immigration and multiculturalism to her […]

A political obituary for Sir Keir Starmer, 2020 to 2026: the man who climbed out of the working class and then, with the impeccable timing that only the truly committed can achieve, pulled the ladder […]