Too little, too late?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a suite of legislative and other action to combat antisemitism including new measures against hate speech and extra power to reject visas, but is it too little, too late?

Exploring deliberative democracy

Politicians who owe their status to traditional frameworks bank on people not caring enough about democracy to demand new forms of direct representation, but research shows that reforms would be popular.

Bringing it all back home

The Bondi atrocity remind us how quickly the political landscape can change and how Australia’s increasingly multi-cultural society now reflects and replicates the problems of the world, rather than offering a haven from them.

Beasts, slaves and Gods

Aristotle’s seminal work on “Politics” contains wisdom and warnings for our modern age in which the promise of a technological utopia is being used to normalise jaw dropping disempowerment and inequality.

More than gun laws need reform

Federal, state and territory governments have agreed to the biggest overhaul of Australia’s gun laws since the Howard government’s post-Port Arthur reforms, in a response to the Bondi massacre that has claimed the lives of 15 victims.

The architects of ignorance

We are supposed to live in an age of information overload, but increasingly autocratic governments around the world are starving the public of the data they need to make informed democratic decisions.

Why Labor won

The Australian Election Study is a comprehensive survey of voters fielded after every Australian federal election since 1987 and the newly released 2025 Australian Election Study provides insights into what shaped Labor’s landslide win.

Business excellence can improve the public service

Ministers and secretaries should champion both excellence dividends and efficiency dividends, with returns measured not in dollars saved but in citizen satisfaction, policy coherence and cross-agency collaboration.

From three strands to four Rs

In her major foreign policy speech to the AIIA, Foreign Minister Penny Wong applied a four-part doctrine—region, relationships, rules and resilience—to suit a far more unstable world. The new formula embeds the US alliance within a wider network of partners while elevating regional focus and domestic resilience as essential tools for managing rising global risks.

The 1975 crisis, a republic and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam’s dismissal and the stripping of Prince Andrew’s royal status have reopened the debate about whether Australia’s head of state should remain the monarch of the United Kingdom.

Ditching net-zero won’t save the Liberals

Sussan Ley’s decision to ditch the Coalition’s bipartisan climate commitment may win her more time in the party room and save the alliance with the Nationals but will not win back young voters.

The good, the bad and the ugly

How have the 10 prime ministers who have held office in the 50 years since Gough Whitlam’s dismissal changed Australia?