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The Liberals never gave members the same scope to be involved and influence policy as Labor did. Now, they are paying the price for it.
Over the years, WorkChoices has become shorthand for policy disaster. It forever changed the political landscape on industrial relations reform.
Barbara Ehrenreich was inspired to write her classic expose of low-wage life in America by punitive 1990s welfare laws. Today, its message is as urgent as ever.
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?
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the party’s “women problem” began.
The landmark Bringing them Home inquiry was a chance to come to terms with the past. But the key recommendations of apology and compensation were rejected.
In May 2000, Australians marched to symbolise coming together. But in the decades that followed, promises to Indigenous people have gone unfulfilled.
It also saw a strong repudiation of ‘Duttonism’ – a Frankenstein version of ‘Howardism’.
The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.
At the turn of the 21st century, Australia put on a show for the world, but for all the talk of the future, we still had one foot in the past.
And, for the first time, this cabinet paper release contains records from the national security committee, a powerful subgroup of cabinet.
The Liberal federal executive finally intervened in NSW. The trigger was an unbelievable snafu that saw a raft of Liberal local council candidates miss the deadline for nomination.
This is not the first time domestic violence has been declared a national crisis. Australian governments first got seriously involved in 1985. What can the past 40 years teach us?
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 2003 Cabinet papers, released today by the National Archives of Australia, reveal the machinations over Australia’s entry into the Iraq war.
He is the second Coalition MP to defect to the crossbench this term. The other is Andrew Gee, who left the Nationals over the party’s opposition to the Voice. The crossbench in the House now numbers 18.
The idea of equality is not what it used to be -–and it’s a political headache for Labor.
Many Liberal politicians have been passionate about redressing Indigenous disadvantage, but have come unstuck by the pitfall of ‘settler liberalism’.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Emerita Professor of Politics, Adelaide University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of History, UNSW
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Professor of History and Politics, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, Monash University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Monash University
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Lecturer in Australian Political Studies, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of History, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University