Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.
- Senior Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ has raised questions about whether it is intended as an alternative UN. Australia should be wary of turning its back on the UN now.
If the 2023 referendum fails, it will at least in part be due to the shortcomings and spoiled hopes of 1967.
The climate emergency is in many ways the Vietnam of today’s young people. The 50th anniversary of the release of resisters to that conflict should give today’s decision-makers pause for thought.
If anything, Brisbane has long-mirrored the broader Queensland rebellious streak when it comes to politics.
Fears of the “communist menace” have long been used in Australian politics, but it is unclear who the market is for such a scare campaign today.
A short history of the Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia: a group of brave returned servicemen and women who protested the Vietnam War.
Australia has long been at the forefront of human rights internationally, while side-stepping questions about its own treatment of Indigenous peoples and refugees.
Labor Leader Arthur Calwell tried to leverage public opposition to conscription to gain support during the 1966 election, calling it a “sinister word” for Australians. The tactic failed.
Projects submitted to the Australian Research Council are vetted heavily by panels of experts. Minister Birmingham’s decision undermines this process.
Peter Dutton’s call for ‘civilised nations’ to rescue white South African farmers draws explicitly on a long history of equating civilisation with a global white identity.
Looking back at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s foundation shows that human rights have never been above politics.
The story of the Builders Labourers Federation campaigns that saved historic locations and green spaces in the 1970s still speaks to contemporary Australians’ concerns about urban development.
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