Politics

As Labor goes through yet another bout of self-destructive leadership undermining and internal dissent, and a shadow cabinet reshuffle is leaked to the press ahead […]

Racism and the Australia Day Conundrum If you listen to some in the political classes, Australia day is a day for all Australians to come […]

By Dr Stewart Hase   Good leaders know that what they say influences people. This is particularly true for political leaders because they have followers that […]

“There is,” said an Italian philosopher, “nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to […]

By John Haly   Just when we thought 2020 was finished, 2021 got off to a foreboding start as Americans attacked their own capitol building in […]

Amid the trumped-up support of Donald Trump, you might remember the time he made some lewd comments, on a recording, about women. The one where […]

Unsurprisingly, there are those here in Australia who are mourning the departure of this enigma of American politics. Why? Trump was neither a leader or […]

As Scott Morrison plays to a Queensland audience to launch his government’s supposed “gas led recovery”, absent is any mention of climate change, the environment, […]

The decision to go ahead with the Australian Open, the first of the grand slams of the tennis calendar, was always going to be fraught […]

By Dr Stewart Hase   “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell The storming of America’s Bastille, the Capitol […]

Donald Trump and Scott Morrison have much in common. Their policies and decisions show them both to be opinionated, self-centred, dangerously narcissistic and lacking in […]

Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said little in the statement from her department, which was a good thing, as it might have been dangerously useful. […]