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2024: The review of a big year in politics
Neoliberalism is collapsing but where will the new leaders come from?
The Monday essay: The story behind the manufactured leadership speculation
Leadership disinformation and an environmental fail
Netanyahu arrest warrant could see a rapid change in Palestine
The Monday essay: Labor’s legislative inertia could cost it at the next election
The end of parliament and chasing war criminals
Labor’s immigration retreat: Pandering to fear and loathing
The Monday essay: The sale of democracy protects the powerful and silences the rest
Money, power and politics: Who really wins in Australia’s democracy?
The social media ban is just another political smokescreen
The Monday essay: The unmasking of the West reveals an ugly face
The ridiculous social media ban and exporting Israel violence
The Monday essay: A dark new era for U.S. democracy?
The return of the American conman
The Monday essay: How Trump could accelerate a great American decline
Queensland power shift, a flight attack on Labor, COVID and US election
The Monday essay: When will Australia embrace a republic of ideas?
Fuck the colony: The uncomfortable truths about colonisation
NACC fails to deliver, corruption wins again
NACC disasters, the Voice one year on, and 4.3 million reasons to not buy a house
The Monday essay: Albanese and the mistake of endlessly appeasing the Israel lobby
Albanese v Dutton and the political struggle over Israel and Palestine
The politics of protest: Minns faces a backlash over double standards and undermining free speech
Australia’s unquestioning support for Israel and a deafening silence
The surplus, Queensland election and Middle East tensions exploited in Australia
The Monday essay: Israel’s escalating war crimes in Lebanon and Australia’s weak response
The Greens interest rates overreach and who is going to stop Israel?
The Monday essay: The Labor–Greens infighting over housing leaves Australians in limbo
Labor–Greens neoliberal battle and the ABC’s support for Trump
The sanitisation of war and the human cost of the Land Forces expo
The Monday essay: Labor’s fight for progressive reform in the face of Coalition sabotage
Labor pays the price in the fruitless quest for bipartisanship
The Monday essay: Will super-profits and wealth taxes unlock a fairer future?
Behind the gridlock on fair taxes, environment protection and housing
Reclaiming the public interest and challenging the power of the super rich
The Monday essay: The struggle to define the government’s vision and direction
Go left Labor and eat the rich
Conservative race-baiting politics in the spotlight yet again
AUKUS is jeopardising Australia’s independence and economic stability
The ethical dilemma of using gambling ads to support the worst media in the world
AUKUS disaster, media going down, Robodebt and the big silence on Gaza
Australia’s elevated terror alert: National security or politics as usual?
Albanese's Makarrata tightrope, the week in Canberra and defaming Linda Reynolds
Is the National Anti-Corruption Commission living up to expectations?
A new Cabinet, inflation up, corruption, and a real-life Succession going wrong
Unpacking the Australian media’s preoccupation with a U.S. election
ICJ ruling condemns Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories
Deep-fakes, a Cabinet reshuffle, the ICJ ruling and Australia’s media obsession with US politics
Trump’s assassination attempt and Biden’s withdrawal: The surreal state of American politics
Trump chaos and controversy in US politics and beyond
Religion in politics: should we be wary or accept its influence?
Navigating Islamophobia in Australian media and politics
Islamophobia, the last refuge of the scoundrel
The battle for the heart and soul of Labor: from local tensions to global trends
Assange is free but the struggle for press freedom and whistleblower advocacy continues
Julian Assange free, the nuclear debate and the GG payrise
Julian Assange released: The tumultuous journey from Belmarsh to freedom
The nuclear mirage and Dutton’s losing climate gamble
Dutton’s conservative stance and climate wars will isolate Australia
The failure of NACC and the return of the climate wars
Frydenberg’s failed comeback reveals massive problems in the Liberal Party
The failure of Frydenberg, Shorten’s expensive speechwriting and what’s behind Nature Positive?
A second term for Labor? The delicate balance between governance and political values
The media’s broken mirror exposes Australia’s racial divides and the ABC’s lack of integrity
Labor’s crafty offer for a second term and News Corp in a Tingle
Israel becoming increasingly isolated over the genocide in Gaza
The battle over nuclear and immigration, free Assange now and the ICC case against Israel
A federal 2024 Budget to address fiscal priorities and political challenges
The big 2024 Budget analysis, gaslighting gas and a whistleblower goes to jail
UN vote on Palestine exposes Albanese’s hypocrisy and Australia’s inconsistent foreign policy
The voices of the Palestine protests and the continuing pre-Budget speculation
Men, we have a problem: Australia’s escalating domestic violence crisis
Why is ending domestic violence so difficult? It’s a question men still can’t answer…
Australia’s remarkable rise in the global economic rankings downplayed by the media
Navigating the complexities of the Gaza conflict and global diplomacy
Australia’s economic resurgence, a war on Twitter/X and the hexed HECS educational challenge
Lehrmann case exposes flaws in Australia’s media coverage and defamation practices
A tragedy in the east, and unpacking a week of global tensions and domestic drama
Fixing Australia’s housing affordability crisis: Vacancy taxes could be the start
Supermarket shake-up: A need for stronger regulation to benefit consumers and producers
A new crisis in Gaza, fair politics, immigration law and Liberal’s preselection fail
Sweeping campaign and donation reforms needed for democratic renewal
The religious discrimination bill is a test of Australia’s secular values
Religious discrimination, donations reforms, the Liberal man problem continues, Tasmania election
The great Australian silence in Gaza
A new economic future, Australia needs independence, the AUKUS disaster and the future of aged care
Does the ABC have a future in the changing media landscape?
The Liberal Party’s nuclear ambition: A naked political power play masked as energy policy
A Labor win and another Liberal loss, nuclear division, the ASIO powerplay and will the ABC survive?
Reforming education, Dunkley, and reflections on the Morrison disaster
The Coalition’s fear and exaggeration campaign
Political chess and human lives
A week in Canberra: scandals, a right to disconnect, Assange and the last Liberal in the village
International condemnation as UNRWA funding suspended while Israel’s brutal actions in Gaza continue
Navigating the week in Australian politics: The outlook for 2024
The big Labor shift in fiscal policy
Labor finds some Stage 3 courage and Morrison’s departure
Never Free Until Palestine Is Free
2023/24 Holiday Series: Resolving the housing crisis with Cathy Callaghan
2023/24 Holiday Series: Sarah Hanson-Young and media reform
Rising Phoenix, Falling Shadows: The year in Australian politics