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The inversion of Australian democracy.

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The last six years have shown that what asylum seekers have more to be concerned about is an insecure, out of control political class that targets the most vulnerable to make itself look in command.
- Sovereignty
“We will decide” was a phoney bit of Australian unilateralism made possible at a time of that phoney bit of US unilateralism, the War on Terror.
- The New Regionalism
How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it?
- Caught in a racial trap
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.
- The problem of the “political cycle”
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Latham is articulating a search for a new relationship of politics to society, based not on its representation, but on intervention on a degraded basis. You have been warned.
Not Dead Yet by Mark Latham
In reality under this complaint about the media lurks a political argument that is highly revealing about the mindset of the political class today.
Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
Here is someone working for the ABC, from a Labor background as Hawke’s press secretary, who has written about the rise and fall of a Labor Prime Minister with all the distortions and omissions worthy of the most disingenuous right wing hack.
The Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy
The most bizarre defence of the two party system comes over what for Megalogenis is the most personal – immigration.
Trivial Pursuit by George Megalogenis
Can Australian politics be that insubstantial?
Confessions of a Faceless Man by Paul Howes
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The confusions of anti-politics: US edition

Monday, 1 February 2016 International relations 6 comments

The pitch. Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say China in a trade deal? I beat China all the time. All the time. Republican and US Presidential front-runner Donald Trump […]

The confusions of anti-politics: UK edition

Tuesday, 8 September 2015 International relations 10 comments

What was supposed to be significant in a democracy was not the hundreds or thousands in a political party but the millions in society they represented.

The New Regionalism – another update

Thursday, 30 April 2015 International relations 4 comments

This has the making of being a regional diplomatic disaster.

Home front

Thursday, 28 August 2014 International relations, The Australian state 11 comments

Why should community leaders be as responsible as anyone else for these jihadists and why would they be able to do anything about it?

Disaster politics

Thursday, 31 July 2014 International relations 15 comments

The last few weeks have reminded that in recent years something rather unpleasant has entered politics.

Sovereignty

Monday, 24 February 2014 International relations, The Australian state 26 comments

The last six years have shown that what asylum seekers have more to be concerned about is an insecure, out of control political class that targets the most vulnerable to make itself look in command.