Democracy
Australians are waking up to the One Nation con

One Nation's support is slipping as voters increasingly see through the party's rhetoric on multic ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The 1984 warning: Why the AUKUS debate cannot be silenced

Looking back at Labor's 1984 U.S. alliance battles, it's more important than ever the party doe ...  
Binface and Roberts steal limelight from Farage and Hanson

Almost as soon as Pauline Hanson's aircraft touched down in the UK, things started taking a nast ...  
Modi marvels Melbourne while equality, justice and pluralism plummet back in India

For countries like Australia, fostering a partnership with a stable, inclusive India is not only a ...  
Donald Trump: A presidency of metaphors

Trump has transferred ownership by the people, of the people and for the people to himself.  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The path to peace requires investment in conflict prevention

Australia cannot build lasting security through militarisation alone. Real peace demands sustained ...  
The monoculture myth at the heart of Hansonism

Australia has never been a monoculture, and importing American-style grievance politics only ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — Why parliament must decide before Australia goes to war

Sending Australians to war should require a vote of parliament, not the stroke of a minister's ...  
Rigged game: Australia's obscene concentration of wealth

It’s past time that Australians reasserted that the democratic state is superior to the fortune ...  
Why multiculturalism needs recovering, not reinventing

Australia's multicultural success now depends on reconnecting public policy with the lived expe ...  
Pauline Hanson imports a monoculture war

Pauline Hanson's latest overseas tour exposes the irony of a movement that rails against fore ...  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The myth of American idealism

Noam Chomsky and Nathan J Robinson challenge the mythology of American exceptionalism and its ...  
Count Binface crashes Nigel Farage's by-election gamble

Nigel Farage's by-election gamble is upended by Count Binface, exposing the theatre and cont ...  
Sovereignty surrendered: U.S. firm Palantir invited into the engine room of ADF

Defence software sovereignty is outsourced to U.S. firm Palantir in a $7.6 million limited tender ...  
Media's fear of Pauline Hanson is her greatest weapon

Pauline Hanson thrives when journalists fear being shut out, but the media holds more power than ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: Trump attacks the enemy within

Donald Trump’s strategy to maintain a stranglehold on American democracy, Dr Jeff McMullen ...  
The deal that could balance the government's books as well as our own

A social new deal that can balance the government's books as well as our own, eliminating aust ...  
America at 250 faces a new struggle over who really holds power

As America marks 250 years since independence, debates over democracy, oligarchy and executive ...  

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