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Alternative Australia: How the U.S.-Antipodean relationship might shift in...
Australians observed the 2016 presidential election with some nerves. For good reason: as a postcolonial cousin of the United States, one that has shared American barracks in most recent conflicts, the...
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Long live the house of review: Why the senate matters | Kiersten Davis
Australia’s political system currently sits on a knife-edge. The House of Representatives is held with a majority of one, with the Liberal Party currently fighting over two pieces of legislation that...
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What progressives need to learn from Trump’s election | Adrian Yeung
Make America Great Again. The now infamous slogan of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign captures a divided America. It is a phrase that fills certain sectors of the population with hope, others with...
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Freedom of speech and political correctness go hand in hand | Daniel Huigsloot
Malcolm Turnbull faces a renewed push to overhaul section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. With the recent election of Trump, issues that are seen to be directly relevant to 18C – namely political...
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The fourth estate: Free press or bust | Kiersten Davis
It’s been fun watching clips from Saturday Night Live over the last few weeks. Watching Melissa McCarthy in the fake Press Gallery ask “Glenn” from the New York Times if he wants to join CNN in the...
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US voter fraud: More entrenched than you may think | Fred Johnston
Rushing to dismiss Russia´s involvement in US elections one minute, accusing Massachusetts residents of busing to New Hampshire and illegally voting the next – Trump has been putting his personal spin...
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A renewed push for an Australian Republic? | Reagan Ward
The Commonwealth has, for some time, found herself in uncertain waters. Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, was for a time the Chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. The...
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Why women should keep on “destroying the joint” | Kiersten Davis
Feminism. It’s become a dirty word. Misused. Misunderstood. Disregarded. Hijacked. When Julie Bishop came out and said she wasn’t a feminist, many women across Australia were disappointed but not...
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In defence of democracy and the fallacy of autocratic peace | Kiersten Davis
We’ve hit an epoch in our history where it appears our democracy is, well, lacking. There exists a deficit of accountability and transparency, and it appears like only those that have no hearts have...
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The Scottish National Party has finally played their hand | Reagan Ward
Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote a poem in 1789 that paid homage to the hills and glens of his homeland. It went: Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North The birth-place of Valour, the country...
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Social enterprises: Passion with vision | Nausheen Mohamed
Every child has a dream of making the world a better place by doing good for little in return. I know I did when I was a child. Children are able to see the flaws in a broken system without any bias...
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CSIRO’s climate science tug-o-war | Fred Johnston
Last month, a Senate estimates hearing revealed that every member of the CSIRO’s senior executive team received performance-related bonuses last year, despite 2016 being one of the most turbulent in...
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The Real Reason Donald Trump Was Unelectable | Kiersten Davis
Back in the 1970s, during Nixon’s presidency, we were introduced to the ‘madman theory’. The theory was essentially that if Nixon pretended to be – for lack of a better word – insane, his adversaries...
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President Trump’s Syrian airstrike combines the worst of American foreign...
The harrowing images that emerged out of Idlib, Syria a few weeks ago struck an emotional chord in world leaders and average citizens alike. The use of chemical weapons, whether by the Assad regime,...
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The sugar tax: A bitter or sweet solution? | Weiyu Fang
Sugar taxes are no stranger to the national political debate, yet the push for renewed discussion on introducing a sugary drinks tax was ignited by Sydney University Professor Stephen Colagiuri’s paper...
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Why are people with food allergies less important than vegetarians and...
Something that has always bothered and bemused me is the amount of attention we pay to people who choose not to eat certain foods as opposed to those who simply have no choice. Most restaurants or...
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China’s One Belt One Road: Beijing’s big footprint | Fred Johnston
To expand the capacity for the biggest exporter of goods in the world, an ambitious project to develop and enhance infrastructure ties between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East was put forward...
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How the Conservatives’ new allies threaten the Northern Ireland peace process...
You need not search very far to find someone who can give a vivid account of ‘the bad old days’ of Northern Ireland – no matter the side. Those of us heralding from either the United Kingdom or the...
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Detractors from both sides fail to fully understand Christopher Hitchens |...
Fixing his gaze upon his attentive, but far from captive, audience, Christopher Hitchens delivers what is to be his final public address. Resisting oesophageal cancer to the last, his voice evades him...
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Is it (metaphysically speaking) important to read the news? | Daniel Huigsloot
There’s a quote I read a while ago that’s always stuck in my mind. It said something like “reading the news is one of the most philosophical things a person can do because it expands your understanding...
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