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Australia
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My ‘hot take’ on the Greens’ 2025 election performance
A week after polling day, finally the political commentary and hot takes are starting to sound less reactionary, less pushing…
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The Truth is Out There – Civil Society Supporter Emails in the Federal Election
When Ariadne Vromen and I started talking about researching civil society organisation activity in the 2025 federal election, one of…
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Community Campaigning can Trump Populism [article]
Originally Published by ABC Religion and Ethics, 26 May 2022. “This was not your typical election outcome. The Australian Labor…
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Blind arrogance or sheer ignorance
I am not prone to anger, but this sentence from the first front page article of The Saturday Paper got my…
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Black Hawks, Minstrels, and a losing war
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been noticing that the government has been rolling out the propaganda machine for…
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Australia’s Education Sausage Factory
Since the recent protests by Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney, the media spotlight has been on Australia’s international education…
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Not such a good head for politics…
International media last week (and continuing into this) was concentrated on the presidential elections in Iran and the death of…
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Swine Flu – Catch it, Bin it, Kill it!
So how serious should we be taking swine flu? Is it a real global pandemic or just the latest story…
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They came from somewhere
The explosion on a boat of asylum seekers off the north-west of Australia, killing five and injuring more, has rekindled…