The decent life
Are there any political parties offering Australians a better life?
Patriotism: the last default
The nation is the only institution Australians are still born into. Do they value it enough?
The word-bankers
Increasingly, the establishment in its various guises has stopped fighting over what to do and instead chooses to fight over who owns which words
The refusal of rescue
A love for the island A young girl crests a sandstone ridge above a homestead in Tasmania’s bush and finds…
A writer goes missing
Chauncy’s disappearance does not reveal a limitation in her art. It reveals a limitation in the way we remember
Waiting for the counter-reformation
The greatest institutional comeback in history has a documented method, and yet none of our dying institutions has referred to it
A man on the train in Victoria
Who are the generational Labor supporters planning to vote One Nation in Victoria?
The anatomy of a scandal
What the Establishment thinks of Pauline Hanson, Nigel Farage, and Donald Trump
One flag, two economies
The commentariat is fighting about Hanson’s word: monoculture. However, the whole country has already effectively adjudicated on the idea. We know the answer...
There is a single law: the outsider is not fit to govern
History disagrees. Some outsiders save nations, others ruin them. It is too early to tell on One Nation and Reform...
Are we sheep?
The herd of voters in on the move, looking for a political home
The sophistication of denial
Legacy commentators struggle to describe the demise of major parties
The coming crash of intellectuals
Four pressures are converging on the symbolic economy
Who ends the churn?
So many Prime Ministers in such a short time spells trouble for major parties
Yes, the Nationals can survive
Their extinction is not guaranteed just because the Liberals are suffering...
Australia’s political grief
Major parties struggle to cope with the rise of One Nation
Roman precedent suggests Hanson might turn out great
Can Pauline Hanson follow Giorgia Meloni’s example?
Labor in a State
South Australia was the first place on Earth, ahead of New Zealand, to give women a complete political life –…
The five heresies
What do transformations in the Australian party system mean?
