Remember when Britain used to lecture other countries about democracy and free speech? Our leaders wagged their fingers at China, Iran, or North Korea and said,...
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has responded to Paul Kelly’s recent article in The Australian where he asserts that Australia has moved to the left. The conversation begins with...
Foreign Minister Penny Wong is copping flak today for what some of her peers are calling an attempt to ‘claim credit’ for Donald Trump’s peace deal...
In 2005, as a fledgling academic navigating the historical waters of industry policy, I sat across from my PhD supervisor, scribbling notes on Frank Stilwell’s model...
The Labor Party is masterful at post-election victory lap, wheeling out their star players and coach to provide extensive commentary on the failure of the Coalition....
The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are all talking about Net Zero. This condition exists when all the carbon emissions emitted into the Earth’s...
Balanced parliamentary debate was the vision of the first elected head of government in Australia, James Hurtle Fisher, Mayor of Adelaide. In 1840 he told the...
The great political theorists in history had differing conceptions of the fundamental idea of ‘the state’. Once the modern nation state had developed out of the...
‘Charlie’ is what you call a friend named Charles when you know him well. Before September 10, 2025, hardly anyone in Australia knew who Charles James...
History sometimes turns on a single moment. Such a moment happened in 404 AD at the Colosseum in Rome. The crowd, as usual, had come to...