Keywords: Australian Politics
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 16 June 2009
6 Comments
What can Malcolm Turnbull's place among Australia's richest 200 people tell us about wealth and politics? First and most obviously, that the extremely wealthy almost always get involved on the conservative side.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 27 January 2009
20 Comments
Today's commentators seem determined to speak about anything but the
cricket — their lunches, last night's frivolities, films, politics and, most of all, themselves. Much more than the Australian players, Test cricket commentators are in crisis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McVeigh
- 19 December 2008
2 Comments
Life here leaves characters little time for introspection or philosophy. When politics finds its way into the strips, it's done in typically irreverent country style. Footrot Flats is one thing Australians could never steal from our nearby neighbours.
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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 01 October 2008
15 Comments
Conventional wisdom tells us democracies are inherently stable, yet an extremist spirit has emerged in mainstream Indian politics. The silence among Australian Christians about the suffering of Indian Christians is as deafening as that of Australian Muslims towards Muslims in Darfur.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 20 August 2008
2 Comments
The lure of leadership seems to have Peter Costello reconsidering his decision to walk away from the Liberals. Whether motivated by serving the community or by personal advancement, once politics is in your blood it is hard to shake off.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bill Calcutt
- 17 June 2008
3 Comments
The Howard era was typified by reactive short-term politics, adversarial confrontation, polarisation and a resistance to transparency. Labor must overcome residual community cynicism and grandstanding by the media if it is to advance its progressive agenda.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 13 December 2007
The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 22 August 2007
6 Comments
While this election is still there to be won or lost, Labor is rightfully the hot favourite. But changes of government are rare in Australian politics, and there are four reasons why Labor might still lose.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kiera Lindsey
- 18 May 2007
Kiera Lindsey reviews Craig McGregor’s Australian son: Inside Mark Latham and Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin’s Rebels with a cause: Independents in Australian politics.
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AUSTRALIA
The Prime Minister has used myths surrounding Gallipoli and racial politics to tap into our felt, but barely understood, craving for belonging. The tenuous nature of our sense of community make us susceptible to the fear campaigns that have dominated Australian politics over the past decade.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
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