How the Liberals won the "unwinnable" Election

8 Jun 2019 | Much has been said about Scott Morrison’s recent election victory but less has been said about ...  

Fake news, election interference and discrimination: Managing social media

21 Apr 2019 | With the rise of the misuse of the internet, Paul Budde believes that governments and industry ...  

What the 'Communist Manifesto' says about climate change

13 Apr 2019 | Dr Martin Hirst explores parallels between the writings of Marx and Engels with today's capitalist ...  

Note to the Liberals: A budget surplus doesn't make sense

24 Mar 2019 | Dr Steven Hail writes that, contrary to conventional economic thinking, government surpluses don't ...  

Australia's economy hits an all-time low

9 Mar 2019 | Relative to the rest of the world, Australia’s economy now is worse than at any time in the ...  

Instagram and the death of the natural world

20 Jan 2019 | Dr Peter Fisher discusses the erosion of the natural environment at the hands of the digital ...  

The scourge of neoliberal private-public finance

9 Dec 2018 | The intrusion of private finance in the public sphere has had disastrous consequences, writes John ...  

Fascism: Are we there yet?

26 Aug 2018 | Martin Hirst interviews Australia's most prominent Nazi-hunter, Andy Fleming, to better understand ...  

'Nasty, brutish and short': Hobbes and the Coalition’s politics of exclusion

2 Jun 2018 | Political editor Dr Martin Hirst has been musing on recent political news while re-reading Thomas ...  

Australia can't rely on 'deterrence' to excuse its immoral refugee policies

20 Apr 2018 | The only argument offered for Australia's torturous refugee policies is that it stops others ...  

The ethics of Manus Island

28 Nov 2017 | What is happening on Manus Island isn’t morally justifiable and neither is the behaviour of the ...  

Kevin Donnelly, the IPA, discredited studies and the Right's 'universal truth'

31 Oct 2017 | Kevin Donnelly uses a discredited IPA study as a benchmark for university education content and ...  

Moral Panic 101: Safe Schools and the new folk devils

26 Oct 2017 | Many social scientists of an older generation will have felt a warm glow at the appearance of ...  

Voluntary assisted dying: Solving the impossible trolley problem

30 Sep 2017 | Bills introduced to both NSW and Victorian state parliaments argue that voluntary assisted dying ...  

Mathias Cormann warns of Labor's 'reds under the beds'

28 Aug 2017 | Mathias Cormann warns of Labor's "shift to the left", but is socialism on the cards for Australia ...  

Artificial Intelligence: Will it really terminate the labour force?

8 Aug 2017 | It's almost scary to think that the world as we know it may well be run by Artificial Intelligence ...  

The Ali Fahour incident and sport's unseen violence

10 Jul 2017 | The tolerance of violence in sport is a symptom of a far greater malaise involving a largely ...  

Raiding superannuation: Housing, the debt trap and parasitic capitalism

24 Jun 2017 | Allowing people to raid their superannuation to buy overpriced homes is more evidence the system ...