Parnell Palme McGuinness
Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director at campaigns firm Agenda C. She has done work for the Liberal Party and the German Greens.
Opinion
Peter Dutton
They cast Peter Dutton as a wolf. Here’s why they’re wrong
Commentators have widely written off the opposition leader as awful. Voters, it seems, are warming to him.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Immigration
What will happen if Australia keeps virtue-signalling on immigration
On immigration policy, nations need to telegraph their meanness – growling menacingly so they can gentle their claws when dealing with real cases of need.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Money & relationships
What the hell is wrong with men? Yes, it’s a multiple-choice question
It’s a question that researchers and, let’s face it, women, have been asking for decades.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Racism
If Australia’s a racist country, it’s not just a black and white issue
There is an authorial arrogance to writers’ festival anti-racism, in which whiteness is forever and always the protagonist.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Women at work
When they cater for women, even the menu is misogynist
They put the MEN in menu and served chicken feed to a room full of chicks. Who’d dare cater for men with these ballerina rations?
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why Israel is losing the PR war
We are witnessing an epoch-defining communications disaster.
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Federal budget
Jim Chalmers, the budget and the art of make-believe
The treasurer has rewritten the narrative on federal budgets. On Tuesday night, we’ll get to decide whether we believe his story – or at least want to believe it.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Islam
We need to talk about the way we talk about DV and terrorism
Weasel words aren’t helping. It’s time we were brave enough to name the real threats.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Crime
Cads, you’re on notice – we now have a contemporary definition of rape
The Lehrmann defamation ruling will change society, thanks to Justice Michael Lee’s distinction between a cad and a rapist.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Crime
The grand moral of the Lehrmann fable is yet to unfold
At the heart of this case is a woman who has been most shamefully immolated in service of other people’s vanities.
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Gender
Can trans women and biological women share an identity? This case may provide an answer
Identity is fundamental to what it is to be human. The Tickle v Giggle case is exploring whether a trans woman can occupy the same space as someone born female.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness