Labor’s electoral mastermind Paul Erickson has reached back seventy-five years to find the right historical analogy to describe the implications of Labor’s huge win. In his...
David Littleproud’s ultimatum to the Liberal Party this week may yet go down as the greatest own goal in Australian politics since Peter Dutton ended Malcolm...
The seemingly temporary demise of the Coalition agreement calls into question the common assumption that Australia, at least up until recently, has a two-party system. The...
On 4 May Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce, in typically incoherent language, that he was planning to introduce a 100 per cent tariff...
Last month marked eighty years since the death of two earthshaking titans of the twentieth century, each of whom shared the grand illusion that he alone...
The most common explanation for Australia’s housing woes is a lack of supply. Property values and rents have outstripped incomes for a simple reason: we haven’t...
Although it often goes unremarked, a dramatic political revolution is underway. It is the ecological revolution: a phenomenon that escapes the attention of those who work...
No single factor determines a political leader’s success. But how they got there is certainly material. This is why the new federal Liberal leader, Sussan Ley,...
It has grown from a 1960s television series that opened with an earworm theme and a nifty self-destructing message into a thirty-year entertainment behemoth. You could...
At the end of last year, my family and I had a little holiday in Amsterdam and took a canal trip round the city. It was...