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With just eight MPs to back her campaign for government, Queensland ALP leader Annastacia Palaszczuk relied heavily on local community organising and decision-making. AAP/Dan Peled

February 11, 2015

‘New politics’ announces itself in Queensland and beyond

Randal G Stewart, University of Canberra

The “new politics” of 21st-century Australia is much clearer after the extraordinary result in the Queensland election on January 31. Australia’s new politics consists of three elements that they will…

Australians have been touched by the loss of MH17 and want an investigation, but does that justify putting more lives at risk? AAP/Dave Hunt

August 7, 2014

Rampant policy contradictions put MH17 investigators at risk

Randal G Stewart, University of Canberra

Political success often contains within it policy contradictions that eventually cause the “successful” initiative to fail. So it may be in the Dutch-Australian initiative to secure and forensically investigate…

NSW premier Barry O'Farrell felt obliged to resign as a result of ICAC revelations when it wasn’t clear to all that he should. Daniel Munoz/AAP

May 12, 2014

Has monitory democracy spawned a monster in ICAC?

Randal G Stewart, University of Canberra

“Monitory democracy” refers to the extra-parliamentary, para-legal, post-bureaucratic institutions of scrutiny that emerged as recently as the 1970s in Australia. Their evolution has swept us along in…

By declaring climate change a ‘great moral challenge’, Kevin Rudd owned the issue. That set him up for a political fall when the Coalition and Greens blocked his path. EPA/Matthew Cavanaugh

March 31, 2014

Climate campaigns trip up on democracy at critical points

Randal G Stewart, University of Canberra

Climate change is a problem for democracy. The scientific modelling is compelling and the evidence alarming. The problems begin when the science crosses into the democratic sphere of politics and public…

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