By many measures, America is failing, and its people - in fact, the world - need the nuclear and military giant to turn itself around.
- Lecturer in Politics, The University of Melbourne
Australian politics’ ‘revolving door’ is undermining efforts to counter lobbying and potential corruption, and the regulation system is hopelessly flawed.
SIFA claims it wants to ‘simplify, not weaken’ gun control laws in Australia. But it’s following the same playbook as the NRA in America – and hoping for similar results.
As unions have shrunk, conditions for workers have got worse.
Student activists are presenting important, emotionally powerful counter-narratives to those of the gun lobby. Their success will depend on whether they can sustain these efforts.
Federal politicians are finally moving against political donations after repeated scandals, but the economics shows lobbying should be ended regardless.
Appearing to co-operate is the best way to try to influence the terms of an inquiry and manage the bad press.
Giving Australia’s lobbying laws teeth, and a sizeable regulatory jaw to occasionally brandish them, is a major step in the right direction.
The history of widespread advocacy campaigns shows that the ‘No’ campaign has many unfair advantages in the marriage equality debate.
Countries such as Canada offer Australia clear lessons on how to better police lobbying.
Beyond her political savvy, Anna Bligh’s appointment as CEO of the Australian Banking Association brings greater access than a Liberal appointee would.
Here are three key areas the Democratic Party must reform if they’re to fix fundamental problems revealed by the shock election result.
When even the most senior politicians go on to work as lobbyists, it can profoundly undermine democracy.
Mobilising and organising large numbers of voters makes for a powerful political force, and as a tool for change in democracies. Its use is not limited to ‘elites’.
Lobbying in Australia is a multi-billion dollar industry which employs a sophisticated strategy to win public opinion and political favours for its clients or members. Here’s how.
Both the Liberal and Labor parties focused their very first television ads of the 2016 campaign on Labor leader Bill Shorten.
Big Tobacco relies on tactics of deceit, delay and frustration which it has developed and refined over half a century.
The lobbying tactics developed by the US tobacco industry no longer just targeted government, but expanded to include the voting public. These tactics still exist in lobbying today.
Tired of dealing with the consequences of austerity, Greece appears to be run by a party inspired by the politics of Homer. Not the Greek Homer, mind you, I refer to the Springfieldian. Some may recall…
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