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Modern democracies need less permanent campaigning and more permanent problem-solving.
Labor says Australia is a hotel. One Nation says it's a monoculture. Where does the Coalition stand?
by Graham Young - 2/07/2026 - 5 comments
The primary challenge is not merely the acquisition of new knowledge or technological advancement, but the preservation of the wisdom necessary to apply these capabilities judiciously.
by Joseph Varon - 30/06/2026 - 1 comment
Rather than enabling genuine democratic participation, fascist movements transform politics into a spectacle.
by Sam Ben-Meir - 23/06/2026 - 4 comments
The Holocaust has become more than a history of Nazi Germany. It is an inquiry into modern civilisation itself.
by John Ebel - 19/06/2026 - 4 comments
Safe injection sites do not reward addiction. They refuse to make survival conditional on virtue.
by Sam Ben-Meir - 16/06/2026
Compulsory voting empowers the disengaged and lets safe-seat politicians take supporters for granted.
by David Leyonhjelm - 15/06/2026 - 10 comments
Australians get one day of political power every three years. What if voters had a voice in between?
by Ian Bowrey - 4/06/2026 - 9 comments
Many people on the anti-Labor side of politics believe the only way to remove Labor from government is for the Liberal Party and Nationals to work with One Nation.
by David Leyonhjelm - 2/06/2026 - 13 comments
What if the real triumph of capitalism is convincing us no alternative is imaginable?
by Sam Ben-Meir - 18/05/2026 - 3 comments
Has Australia become trapped in inherited alliances, elite thinking and failed orthodoxies?
by Ordan Andreevski - 14/05/2026 - 1 comment
From factory discipline to self-exploitation: the machine has moved within.
by Sam Ben-Meir - 8/05/2026

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