Donald Trump’s Conservatism, by Geoffrey Robinson
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Trump’s success lies in the politics of the personal.
Global Avarice, by Alison Caddick
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If the money relation sits at the heart of capitalism, how does its present, twenty-first-century form, digitised and ultra-globalised, break asunder the assumptions and ethics of a given world?
Liberal Tax Dilemma a Sign of the Times
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As Malcolm Turnbull faces the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he is not finding life all that easy.. Being popular without actual policy had only a short term prospect, and most actual policies that are briefly floated turn out to be fraught one way or another. The most exciting of times are hardly straight-forward.
Thatcher’s ‘Miracles’ Live On
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With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership in a new key after the debacles unleashed by the leaders of the 1980s.
Shifting Ground by Alison Caddick
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Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for the first time in public, perhaps hoping …
Challenging the Mining Elites
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The implications for the capitalist economy and Australia’s mining in the face of Climate Change by Conal Thwaite
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
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It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson