From Barcelona: It’s hard to escape Australian politics when I see examples of inaction all over the Iberian Peninsula. The news media would have you believe...
America and the world are on the verge of suffering four years of an unrestrained Trump presidency, little checked by the Republican-controlled Congress or the conservative-dominated...
“What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?” asked the American media academic Michael Socolow in the Conversation after Donald Trump won the presidential election....
Democracies have always presented themselves as beacons of human progress. In 431 BCE the statesman Pericles declared that Athens’s democracy was “the school for all Greece,”...
I am sad to tell you that last night we saw the decline of our democracy. The Senate passed 32 pieces of legislation without so much...
History will show it as one of the most far-sighted heritage decisions made by the Hawke government— Barry Cohen, The Life of the Party (1987) When...
As expected, without a public mandate or any sort of proper consultation, Australia has passed what is being described as the world’s first legislation to ban...
My brother and I meet at Flinders Street Station and immediately notice we’re wearing identical clothing, as if it had been planned. Not a lot of...
One of the perils of entertaining is that sometimes, you’ll have a guest with some kind of dietary requirement. And as the host, it’s your duty...
According to Anthony Albanese, ‘We came to office of course in 2022 with a number of challenges.’ His problem is that his shocking mismanagement has brought...