Trump is only finishing what Hollywood and the media started
Trump can only do this – after taking it to a never-ending election campaign – because the cultural environment exists to receive it as some version of common sense.
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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.
Turnbull will never have credible climate change policy
The greatest hallmark of the Coalition's baked-in streak of climate denialism is the extent to which it will contort itself not to have a credible policy.
America's predicament is a wake-up call for Australians
When the next crunch comes, there will be plenty of vulnerable, dispensable people.
It's not about racism or sexism, it's about class warfare
Trump was so repugnant because he violated our sense of identity politics.
We haven't seen the end of Islamic State
Winning on the battlefield is often when the problems start.
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.
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.
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