Damien Costas

People and politics now polls apart

25 August 2026 10:50 am

Labor is paying the price, but the Coalition isn’t collecting the benefit

The curious case of the wrong feelings

13 August 2026 1:00 am

The rise of One Nation is not occurring because millions of Australians have suddenly stopped thinking

The suit didn’t die. Dignity did…

1 August 2026 3:26 pm

The suit is dying. Not because men suddenly discovered that T-shirts are more comfortable – they always were. Not because…

The prosperity paradox

22 July 2026 1:28 am

We have built an entire culture around the elimination of discomfort

I want my country back! Who took it…?

10 July 2026 11:02 am

A difficult question of citizens, political power, migrants, and institutions

The danger of drift

4 July 2026 2:39 pm

How nations change when we’re not looking

Sage advice for One Nation

28 June 2026 6:30 pm

What exactly does it mean to be Australian?

Who gets to program our reality?

24 June 2026 4:22 pm

Power increasingly means controlling information

The future is out of fashion

22 June 2026 12:56 am

Prosperity already exists. The challenge is deciding how to divide it...

Fire the Liar: The politics of broken promises

15 June 2026 5:06 pm

‘Never ask a liar why they lied. To explain it, they would have to lie again.’ Online, the quote is…

The diversity we no longer celebrate

12 June 2026 2:16 pm

Equal opportunity will not create equal outcomes ... and that is okay

The real lesson of Socrates

9 June 2026 12:47 pm

Every society needs people willing to ask uncomfortable questions

When risk becomes the enemy

5 June 2026 9:25 am

A society built by risk-takers is increasingly being governed by risk managers

The new aristocracy doesn’t wear crowns

31 May 2026 6:55 pm

Modern elites speak the language of equality while occupying positions of extraordinary privilege

What does revolution look like in the 21st Century?

27 May 2026 10:29 pm

Modern voters feel ruled but cannot identify who is ruling them