Australia’s Orban Sycophants
Australians welcoming the defeat of our nascent religious right in the May election need to pay attention to the echoes of the American right-wing strategies […]
Articles by Lucy Hamilton
Calling on the Straights
The overthrow of Roe v Wade in America is just the start. And Australia’s Right, from the political figures connected by think tanks to the […]
Australia needs a Bill of Rights
Australia is at a crossroads. The decade of Coalition government showed how vulnerable our rights and freedoms could be in the face of a political […]
The transphobia “moral” panic
People contributing to anti trans rhetoric are playing a much more dangerous game than they realise. The current wave of anti-trans sentiment will lead to […]
What is the “mad left”?
Even before the Albanese government was certain that it would have a clear majority, the Sky News chorus had begun baying about the “mad left” […]
Dutton and Trump politics
The mainstream media in Australia is currently whitewashing fascist politics. It is not just sycophantic, or lazy, journalism. It is dangerous. When Peter Dutton was […]
The Coalition’s man problem
It is becoming a cliché to say the Coalition government has a ‘woman problem’. This is nonsense: it has a man problem. From the ‘big […]
Democracy in decline: Australia’s slide into ‘competitive authoritarianism’
Australia is at a critical point. A government that would cling to power to impose unpopular policy threatens the very nature of our democracy. It […]
The LNP exists to serve the rich. Everyone else gets “thoughts and prayers”
The recent budget has underscored that the Coalition government has abandoned the needy, and the nation’s future. Whether an Australian is hunting for a job […]
The Risk of the Religious Right: Christian Libertarianism
It arguably took one presidential term in America for the nation to move from a modern nation with a loud Religious Right, to one where […]
Don’t expect much – with climate disasters you will largely be on your own
When Scott Morrison chides inundated Australians about expecting too much from the government or the ADF during a crisis, he is not just speaking about […]
Lies, lies, lies – and the lying liars who tell them
Politicians, predominantly on the right, have repeatedly been caught lying in direct contravention of video evidence. The falsifications aren’t minor. In Canberra at the moment […]
Depressed by the press: journalism bows to the authoritarians
In a moment when authoritarianism is on the rise around the world, our mainstream journalism is not up to the task of confronting the nation […]