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Articles by Lucy Hamilton

About Lucy Hamilton
Lucy Hamilton is Melbourne born and based. She studied humanities at Melbourne and Monash universities, until family duties killed her PhD project. She is immersed in studying the global democratic recession.
Viktor Orbán at CPAC in Texas in 2022

Australia’s Right is importing Orbanism: we can’t ignore it

July 29, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 34

Senior Australian “conservative” figures continue to attend conferences backed by illiberal Hungarian leader Viktor Orban. The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) hosted its 2023 London Summit […]

News headlines featuring the cruel asylum seeker policies

Prison hulks and river blades: fortress building in the climate-catastrophe era

July 27, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 8

Britain has commissioned a prison hulk to house immigrants, in a cruel re-enactment of history. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has implemented two strategies to […]

The Uluru Statement against FN art background

Racism, the ‘No’ campaign and the Americanisation of Australian politics

July 22, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 19

There may be some Coalition politicians and Murdoch employees who are motivated by genuine racism to oppose the Voice to Parliament. Some might believe First […]

Image of Alan Tudge with his threatening quote for Robodebt victims

Lazy language damages our present and risks our future

July 20, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 38

Labels have power. They shape the way we know the world. They allow people to see actions with greater clarity or distort our understanding to […]

Panti Bliss promotional shot

Panti Bliss and the war on drag and trans existence

July 13, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 8

One of the highlights of recent travel was seeing the Queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss, perform at the Soho Theatre. This esteemed drag performer was […]

Images from the climate emergency

New coal mines and protests crushed: is Labor resigned to doom?

May 24, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 11

It is more shocking watching Labor governments implement draconian anti-protest measures than it is the right-wing parties. The latter are by definition opposed to Labor’s […]

Dan Andrews at a Covid conference in September 2020

Dan Andrews – and Murdoch crying wolf

May 19, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 9

Rupert Murdoch has done incalculable harm to the democratic experiment throughout the AUKUS nations and beyond. In Victoria, his propaganda campaigns have made him the […]

Floating US currency

Dark Money funding Weaponised Unreality

May 9, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 14

Billionaires fund bodies with excellent PR strategies to ensure they achieve their goals. Amongst the strategies, “astroturf” organisations use good-sounding names to confuse us in […]

Swastika overlaying Nazi salute from Melbourne March 18

Are Nazis running Victoria?

May 5, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 7

Currently the Neo Nazis who performed their Hitler salutes on Parliament House steps in Melbourne six weeks ago are effectively instructing Victoria Police which events […]

Tucker Carlson screenshot on a segment titled "Diversity Police"

Weaponised Unreality

April 28, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 29

Australia’s Liberal politicians – and their media friends – need to be very careful. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has helped create such a crisis of […]

Western mother and baby image overlaid with the words of one of the refugee mothers on Nauru

Dutton: pedophile hysteria and child protection

April 25, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 11

Dutton is the right politician for the post-QAnon age: in fact the radical right zeitgeist caught up with him. His decision to drum up (another) […]

Protest sign against indefinite persecution of refugees and asylum seekers

The AAT: abolishing a system of indefinite torment

April 23, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 13

The abolition of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is a crucial part of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus KC’s integrity platform. In the last decade of […]

Whistleblowers being persecuted: McBride and Boyle

Secrecy is the enemy of democracy: whistleblowers are heroes

April 19, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 7

One of the most hated aspects of the Morrison government was the secrecy. Over and again, we continue to shock to revelations of hidden wrongdoing […]

The Pride Progress Flag

Victorian MLC Moira Deeming: the pretty face of a scary ideology

March 30, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 16

“I can’t wait until I’m legally able to hunt you down.” This curse was said to an American trans women in the streets of Oklahoma […]

Nazis on Melbourne's Parliament House steps in March 2023

Nazis on our streets: don’t judge protesters by politeness

March 28, 2023 Lucy Hamilton 8

On some level, it is straightforward for a Neo-Nazi protest to be easy for police to handle. As we saw on the streets of Melbourne […]

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