It's impossible to define what this election is really about
There are flashpoints – negative gearing, maybe some health funding, possibly even boats – but there's no central, definitive theme.
Waleed Aly is co-host of Ten's The Project and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University. He writes fortnightly for Fairfax.
There are flashpoints – negative gearing, maybe some health funding, possibly even boats – but there's no central, definitive theme.
If Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, London's new mayor would be barred from entering the country because he's a Muslim.
‘Stopping the boats’ was a bipartisan policy and both sides of politics are responsible for its monstrous outcomes.
Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn't done for decades - articulate a worldview.
Debate about Aboriginal history in Australia always descends into hysteria because it bruises our misplaced national pride.
The disruption wreaked by Tony Abbott is an echo of the disruption that besets conservative parties worldwide.
The history of asylum seeker policy in Australia will be remembered as a story of how successive governments legislated their lies to justify a world of make-believe borders and compliance.
Islamic State is being damaged by the US-led bombing campaign but civilians under the regime are finding it less fearsome than the alternatives.
Abbott and Trump are not intelligently discussing Islam, they’re just demonstrating that their brand of politics is fast collapsing.
Force will not wipe out Islamic State because it is a byproduct of a much bigger conflict that needs to be resolved first.
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