Politics
Australia remains alone among the settler colonies for its lack of treaties with First Nations. This is despite the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have been calling for a treaty for decades – since at least the 1970s and then more forcefully during the Treaty ’88 Campaign ...
... (read more)Plots And Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension by Niki Savva
by Paul D. Williams •
Dead Right: How neoliberalism ate itself and what comes next by Richard Denniss
by Rubik Roy •
Tired of Winning: A chronicle of American decline by Richard Cooke
by Varun Ghosh •
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and world order by Hal Brands and Charles Edel
by Rémy Davison •
Winners Take All: The elite charade of changing the world by Anand Giridharadas
by Glyn Davis •
As part of his budget speech to the House of Representatives in April, Josh Frydenberg, the federal treasurer, announced that his suite of policy changes would ‘deliver better outcomes for all Australians’. Such talk is par for the course in parliamentary democracies ...
... (read more)From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting by Judith Brett
by Frank Bongiorno •
Elections Matter: Ten federal elections that shaped Australia edited by Benjamin T. Jones, Frank Bongiorno, and John Uhr
by Lyndon Megarrity •
