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In Australian politics today, the neoliberal consensus seems unshakable. But the experience of the Curtin and Whitlam Labor governments shows the potential of progressive populism to deliver social change — a potential we can also glimpse in the recent growth of the Greens.
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The Write Stuff, a recent collection of essays from the ALP’s conservative wing, argues that Labor must shift even further to the right to become electorally successful. The book’s authors couldn’t be more wrong — to win, Labor must ditch the neoliberal policies they celebrate.
Read MoreScott Morrison speaks at a press conference on May 26, 2019 in Canberra, Australia. (Tracey Nearmy / Getty Images)
Scott Morrison speaks at a press conference on May 26, 2019 in Canberra, Australia. (Tracey Nearmy / Getty Images)
Australian PM Scott Morrison is often compared to Donald Trump. Morrison is certainly a race-baiter who serves the rich, but his brand of reheated “populism” borrows far more from Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and former PM John Howard. Unfortunately, it’s not dead yet.
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Hanging with Tim Stewart sounds awful, but wait until you read what else Scott Morrison and his band of fanatics have done…
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Images from ABC and The Guardian
The PM reckons the decimation of 500 Aboriginal nations and the funny tummies of his ancestors are comparable. Reading the words of Aboriginal and Liberal leaders side by side, it's hard to deny that white supremacy has long been at the helm of the Australian Government.
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Images from NFSA, Mathew Berryman, ABC News , ABC News and The Conversation
Australia is not for its people but for its plutocrats: for the billionaires, for the coal barons, for the media oligarchs, and for the corrupt politicians who represent them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Last night the Morrison Government rushed reheated Abbot-era environmental legislation through the House of Representatives without debate. The bill would yet again undermine protections and fail to deliver the national standards recommended by the recent federal environment law review. It’s just the latest attack on the nation’s life support systems in a seven year record of destruction, any one of which should be disqualifying for any party claiming to represent the Australian people.
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It’s been 10 years since the Greens first introduced legislation for a Federal ICAC to Parliament, subsequently blocked at every turn by the Coalition. Meanwhile, Liberal and National Party politicians have racked up at least 100 examples of corruption and cronyism, virtually without consequence. Coincidence? Probably.
Read MoreThe Coalition’s corruption has never been more flagrant, yet the ABC’s ability to hold it to account has never been less potent.Today’s announcement of the axing of 250 more ABC jobs due to budget cuts is but the latest tragic, upsetting, and disturbing assault of an abusive government.
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Images from Mathew Berryman, ABC News , ABC News and The Conversation
As the Prime Minister continues to deny the factual links between the climate, bushfire, and drought emergencies devastating the nation, there can be no doubt that the Australian state has been completely captured by fossil fuel and media billionaires.
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Images from Qldaah, The New Daily, Urban Wronski and Urban Wronksi
No government could be so morally bankrupt and pathetic as to throw a dead cat on the table in the middle of a national emergency, could they?
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Screencap from The Juice Media
Abbott’s Law states the quality of a nation’s satire is inversely proportional to the quality of the government. For the last six years the world’s best satire has called Australia home.
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Screencap from Get Krack!n
It’s been five days since by far the most electrifying television in Australian history and yet for some reason voting for the Gold Logie remains open.
Read MoreThis nation is stained with blood, soaked with white supremacy, and shameless with its boastful brand of discrimination. Aboriginal leaders and refugees light the path to justice and healing, we just need the courage to follow them, writes Liam McLoughlin.
Read MoreAamer Rahman with rapper Briggs. (Image: Vice Media)
Aamer Rahman with rapper Briggs. (Image: Vice Media)
Diverse local comedians are making institutional sexism and racism laughable.
Read MoreUncle Max Eulo, an iconic Sydney identity.
Uncle Max Eulo, an iconic Sydney identity.
A Yolngu man's extraordinary win at the Northern Territory election is a significant milestone for the Treaty movement. Yet all the media can talk about is the 'Indigenous' Andrew Bolt.
Read MoreAustralian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. (Image: Veni, Flickr).
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. (Image: Veni, Flickr).
Say what you like about the Prime Minister, but at least when torturing refugees, cooking the planet, and accelerating the corporate takeover of our democracy, he's sensible about it.
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Image: Michael Loadenthal, Flickr.
The Norwegian sociologist, who helped found the field of 'peace journalism', spoke to NM columnist Liam McLoughlin about conflict, terror and talking to the Taliban.
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