Arch conservatives offer nothing but guff
Abbott and Trump are not intelligently discussing Islam, they’re just demonstrating that their brand of politics is fast collapsing.
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Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is co-host of Ten's The Project and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University. He writes fortnightly for Fairfax.
Islamic State thrives as big boys squabble
Force will not wipe out Islamic State because it is a byproduct of a much bigger conflict that needs to be resolved first.
Morally bereft: Abbott and Blair still banging on
How is it a good moral result that Lebanon takes something equivalent to a quarter of its population, while Australia congratulates itself for taking 12,000 people?
Turnbull’s first task: soothe the angry beast
The Liberals have lost touch with mainstream Australia, and now conservatives could drag the new PM down before he starts.
Is environmentalism the new communism?
We will be subjected to the Abbott government's nonsensical hyperbole as long as it insists on casting environmentalists as a special interest group that threatens the liberal order.
Indigenous backdown further isolates Abbott
The Prime Minister has missed the point: Indigenous people need to lead the process to their constitutional recognition.
Politics: the ugly game where the melee rules
Politics is in crisis. Any chance to score a point is greedily grasped, while the good of the nation is the last thing anyone cares about.
The politics of persuasion: a lost art
Both sides of politics offer people outrage or seek to assuage them. Neither side tries to engage voters with persuasive arguments.
Why Zaky Mallah was a gift for the government
Aggressive posturing, sledgehammer tactics, visceral emotion: the debate over citizenship laws is now so charged, even the slightest form of resistance is interpreted as seditious.
First cracks emerge in house rules
We’re seeing the first cracks in a housing policy both parties have supported for too long.
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