In parliament, Tim Wilson’s performative outrage overwhelms his thinking. But on the page, he is thoughtful. Why is Jim Chalmers praising his opponent’s book?
- Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
Australia’s impossible housing crisis, One Nation as a political force, privatised education … how many of our problems can be traced back to John Howard?
Faust is best remembered as the founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. But there was much more to her than just that.
Putting aside concerns about feasibility and cost, it’s difficult to square the policy with the basic principles on which the Liberal Party was founded.
In his second Quarterly Essay, Lech Blaine tries to make sense of former Queensland policeman Peter Dutton. Who is he? What drives him? And what does he hope to achieve if he wins government?
The rising climate crisis presents an existential threat to humanity yet our government and political system are on a go-slow response. Is this issue too hard for humans to solve?
The strength of support for the teal independents reveals a fracturing of support for the Liberal Party in its traditional strongholds.
Anger has big advantages for a campaigning politician. Scott Morrison, the electoral strategist, knows this. Albanese needs to learn, and fast.
Australians coalesced around a strong federal government during the second world war. In recent decades, however, the states have taken primacy in people’s lives.
The archives’ neglect may not be, as some as argued, another shot in the culture wars, but it is a sign of the government’s truncated temporal imagination.
The federal government has shown during the pandemic that it is prepared to impose great financial burdens for the sake of our health. We need them to do the same for another crisis: climate change.
With world-first compulsory and preferential voting, Australia was born not on the battlefield but at the ballot box.
The federal government’s the stubborn commitment to coal is pulling the government’s economic policy towards the sort of state socialism it is supposed to abhor.
The Liberals who want to tear down Malcolm Turnbull claim they are in a battle for the heart and soul of the party - but where is this heart and soul, and how strong is it?
A new book attempts to cloak Tony Abbott in a political philosophy, but is not entirely convincing.
Like Malcolm Turnbull, the three-time prime minister Alfred Deakin was sometimes accused of lacking substance, but he had core political commitments from which he never wavered.
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