Hanson makes the political quote of 2016
Pauline Hanson's big idea is that Australia is under relentless attack from minorities that swamp us without assimilating.
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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.
How Turnbull became stationary target
There has been no landmark catastrophe. In fact, there has been no landmark anything. Instead there has been a series of basic missteps that refuse to go away.
The contradiction that has split the Liberal Party
If we were starting our political parties today, from scratch, we simply wouldn't have Labor and the Coalition.
Don't turn Muhammad Ali into a sanitised caricature
We're left with a man of inordinate courage who made some awful mistakes, was sincere enough to admit them, but at every moment was prepared to pay the price of his convictions.
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.
Khan's London a symbol of a working democracy
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.
Labor can’t deny its role in Manus Island tragedy
‘Stopping the boats’ was a bipartisan policy and both sides of politics are responsible for its monstrous outcomes.
Against the odds the stars line up for Labor
Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn't done for decades - articulate a worldview.
Why Australia lies to itself about its Indigenous history
Debate about Aboriginal history in Australia always descends into hysteria because it bruises our misplaced national pride.
The slow-motion death of conservative politics
The disruption wreaked by Tony Abbott is an echo of the disruption that besets conservative parties worldwide.
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