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 […]
Articles by Lucy Hamilton
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, […]
Chaos and confusion are intentional weapons: Albanese must strengthen not weaken the misinformation bill
The Albanese government announced this week that it would weaken proposed disinformation-suppressing measures because the Coalition was implacably opposed to them. It is hardly surprising […]
Judges fail to understand: people must pay a price for choosing to act as a Nazi
Victoria’s leading Neo Nazi left the County Court in Melbourne recently with the judge’s message, “Good luck with the future, Gentlemen” ringing in his ears, […]
Climate change deniers, theocrats and neoliberals meet in London for the scariest Halloween Party
It was helpful of Greg Sheridan to advertise in The Australian (27/10) the new ultraconservative conference that he is attending in London. While his column […]
Victorian government neuters its integrity body
By Stephen Charles and Lucy Hamilton The Victorian government has just acted to ensure that the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) is neutered by a […]
Reforming money in politics: crushing Dark Money without eliminating quality independents
One of the most crucial decisions about the shape of our democracy is about to be resolved. The Coalition and the ALP appear to have […]
Conservative parties have become post-democratic: the Voice No campaign is another blow.
The 21st century international Right which has hijacked the old conservative parties is post-democratic. The use that the Coalition parties are making of the Voice […]
The Voice reveals the urgent need for truth reforms
The fact that Elon Musk has just halved his election integrity team this week on X/Twitter at the same time as a former integrity executive […]
The war on “gender” is a fascist threat
The Right is obsessed with gender. This deep paranoia comes out of America and international far right movements. It harms straight people and LGBTQIA+ people […]
What Barbie tells us about the Right. (Hint: it’s all sex.)
If you have been watching the aftermath of the Barbie movie, you might have learnt a lot about the Right. The most important lesson is […]
We can’t ignore politicians’ Christianity any longer
It has been traditional for journalists and public figures to respect the individual political candidate’s religion as private. America shows us the danger of creeping […]
CPAC 2023: the Christian Nationalists taking over the Coalition
It is hard to gauge the importance of the Trumpist Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event that took place in Sydney this weekend. There were […]
The insurgency within the Liberal Party
What does a Liberal vote mean if the ultraconservatives take over the party’s mechanisms? The Liberal Party is in deep trouble. As our main “conservative” […]
“Political lynching”: Scott Morrison and Trumpian tactics
We have seen various flood metaphors used to describe ways to distort and destroy the democratic project in the Trump era. Scott Morrison’s accusation that […]