Why politics still begins with the basics

The herd of voters in on the move, looking for a political home

Anthony Albanese stepped off his RAAF jet last October in his jeans with a Joy Division T-shirt stretched across his…

The Liberals can still save Australia, if they are brave enough

How nations change when we’re not looking

The world is changing, just not in the way Labor predicted

Australia is not a ‘culturally blank’ slate

Doubling down on a bad idea

Government greed is the biggest threat to economic success

Legacy commentators struggle to describe the demise of major parties

Everyone’s talking about Australian culture. What is it? Where is it? And how do we know it when we see…

Our leaders don’t know the difference

Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist thinker, would be proud

And the importance of sustaining a nation’s identity and unity of purpose

And doesn’t explain why One Nation is winning in the polls

Who owns our data? What is being collected? Is surveillance the new tech revolution?

How AI is making everything more expensive

Multicultural debate exposes Coalition weakness and division

Four pressures are converging on the symbolic economy

The assumptions we mistake for axioms

None of them get it – not journalists, academics, big business, policymakers, or the major parties. One Nation supporters are…

Britain’s crisis is not that it has forgotten how to rule the world, it has forgotten how to govern itself