Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor and broadcaster, and an Honorary Fellow at Victoria University.
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At a crucial moment in history, it’s worth thinking about the evolution of progressive ideas, in the US, the UK and in Australia
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A Tony Abbott return to Liberal leadership seems far-fetched until you consider the political landscape that enabled the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd melodrama
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The call for white working class Americans to get out of their dead-end towns to find jobs is reminiscent of the call for Indigenous Australians to participate in the ‘real economy’
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In light of Cardinal Pell’s testimony and the Safe Schools fiasco, it’s more important than ever to empower children with information about sexuality
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In an era in which political parties have lost their automatic hold on their constituency, a small cadre of reactionaries can exert an outsized influence
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Two speeches a year apart – one apologising to black children for being taken from their families, another to white children for the same injustice. Why is only one speech still controversial?
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The current pitch for an Australian republic promises a change that will make no difference at all. But getting rid of the whole damn family would actually make a huge difference to our democracy
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Why has Mal Brough never been forced to answer questions about his disastrous intervention into Indigenous communities policy?
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There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls
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Australia’s militarised border protection policy borrows its methods from the war on terror – not least by moving questionable activities offshore and outside the easy reach of courts
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Foreign musicians are not the reason so many Australian women are being killed by their partners. By focusing on one man, we let the government off the hook
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By contrasting the subtlety of the British show Antiques Roadshow with its blunter US equivalents, we get a bleak glimpse into how class differences are resolved
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We’ve warned that Australia’s cruel immigration regime would have a carcinogenic effect on the body politic. It’s happening, despite today’s stuff up
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As the far right mobilised in Australia, footage was released of the British royals throwing Nazi salutes. Don’t forget: those days we had genteel fascists too
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Our politicians, among the highest paid in the world, have all but extinguished discussion of class. At a time of growing inequality, we have to ask why
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It’s customary to distinguish between two Alan Bonds: the shonky high-flyer, and the yachting victor. Truth is, in Labor’s embrace they were the same man
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George Brandis’s new regime of funding is a double dose for artists: interventions on behalf of the Liberal party’s base, and precarious employment
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To be taken seriously in Australian public life, you can’t stray from the list of approved Very Serious opinions. Scott McIntyre was punished because he did
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The greyhound ban and the working man: what exactly does 'working class culture' mean?