The fantasy that coal has a future helps no one
Coal is a dying industry for reasons that aren't merely environmental.
Waleed Aly is co-host of Ten's The Project and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University. He writes fortnightly for Fairfax.
Coal is a dying industry for reasons that aren't merely environmental.
Turnbull is facing twin disillusionments. If you're angry, you go to One Nation. If you're just disappointed, you go to Labor.
What matters is that any welfare cuts the government proposes will immediately be measured against its tax cuts for business. And the government will lose that contest.
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.
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.
When the next crunch comes, there will be plenty of vulnerable, dispensable people.
Trump was so repugnant because he violated our sense of identity politics.
Winning on the battlefield is often when the problems start.
Pauline Hanson's big idea is that Australia is under relentless attack from minorities that swamp us without assimilating.
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.
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