Violence in our churches
We must always condemn violence. There must be no tolerance for brutality, and we must take action to diminish violence whether it is tied to […]
Articles by Lucy Hamilton
The paradox of tolerance: do we suppress authoritarians’ speech before they suppress us?
The global movement towards authoritarianism took a step forward this week, and faced an experiment in checking its infiltration. In America, a frightening move towards […]
Fossil Fuel’s war on protest
Madeleine King, Minister for Resources in the Albanese government recently announced that she will curtail the ability of Australians to challenge resource corporation projects in […]
The Meanjin essay: The Voice and Australia’s democracy crisis
With Stephen Charles AO KC The dire state of truth in Australia’s civic space crystalised in 2023. We had seen the waning influence of News […]
A Republican victory in 2024 is a “free market” death sentence for humanity
After the Super Tuesday results signalled Trump would become the Republican presidential candidate in November, a first promise was that “We’re going to drill baby […]
Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism
We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy, […]
Illiberalism: the Dunkley by-election and the cost of doing business
The liberal international order has been responsible for a great many deaths. If the “anti-liberal internationale” becomes ascendant, however, we will see those numbers multiplied […]
Traditionalism: the belief that could doom us all
It can be difficult to understand what connects free market devotees, white ethnostate militants, Christian Nationalists, tech bros and mere conservatives in the West. One […]
New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas Network
Just as the Atlas Network-connected Advance body intervened in the Voice referendum in Australia and, in recent weeks, a by-election, similar organisations spawned from the […]
Lessons from the USA about patriotic beat-ups
As Australia approaches that time in January again, we see the unedifying picture of Peter Dutton’s team driving his post-referendum Base into a flag-waving orgy […]
Atlas Network strategies: how fossil fuel is using “think” tanks to delay action
Australians should be wondering why the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), one of the country’s proudest think tanks, has just established a body promoting nuclear […]
The Americanisation of Australian politics: watching the Atlas Network
It is no accident that the Australian “conservative” movement has transformed into an echo of the toxic American Right. Fossil fuel money and a giant […]
Resisting Christian Nationalism: Secularism Australia’s inaugural conference
Spiritual and cultural Christians – indeed such people of all faiths – need to consider allying together with those who identify as belonging to “no […]
Tony Abbott and the Australian right: a grim political trajectory
Tony Abbott added two new posts to his resume this month, debuting as Fox director and announced to be “joining the Danube Institute team as […]
Elections demand transparency to halt schemes by Christofascists and conspiracists
West Australia’s council elections seem a strange place to pinpoint a warning about American radicalising political games infiltrating the Australian landscape. While it is strange, […]