Trump Grants God An Audience!
“Well, I got a call from God the other day… not so much a call as a… he spoke to me and he said we […]
Democracy
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 […]
“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 […]
Lazy language damages our present and risks our future
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 […]
Do Not Obsess About Debt, Obsess About the Vitals
By Darren Quinn Professors Edmond, Holden, and Preston are mistaken in that Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) says we should not worry about budget deficits. The effects […]
Conspiracy: the disease that threatens our survival
Sometimes it takes a war correspondent to cast light on what is happening at home. The New Yorker’s Luke Mogelson has just published The Storm […]
Australia might be saving our democracy. Can the UK and US?
Almost precisely a year ago, John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations published an essay by this author entitled, “Think tanks have put British democracy at risk.” […]
Australians must not ignore the Religious Right’s global warnings
Australians have begun to see the new face of extreme religion in our “conservative” politics. The international influences are varied and interconnected. These radical forces […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
Fixing Our Society
Does anyone remember that we once proudly described ourselves as an egalitarian nation? Just after World War II, the Australian government wanted everyone in the […]
Day to Day Politics: It’s bloody simple when you think about it … a Royal Commission, that is
Wednesday 13 April. 1 Labor proposes a Royal Commission into the financial sector. Particularly the banks. The establishment and those of a conservative ilk cry […]
Democracy: The Genie is out of the bottle
Equality and freedom are two core component of democracy. Whether it’s me, you or Malcolm Turnbull walking into that polling booth on election day – everybody’s vote […]
The relevance of Tony Abbott
By Paul G. Dellit Now That The Lunatic Is No Longer In Charge Of The Asylum . . . That’s unfair. Tony Abbott neither is […]