If the choice is between a god-bothering dog-whistler and a gender-whisperer, I’ll take the latter every time.
Arthur Baker
September 10, 2018
The far right, where politicians are spending so much energy harvesting votes these days is not Australia. Nearly all of us are somewhere else, scattered around the centre, waiting for a government that will take this good, prosperous, generous country into the future.
David Marr
September 2, 2018
Coal is to Australian politics as guns are to US politics.
Simon Holmes à Court
August 31, 2018
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
August 31, 2018
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
Søren Kierkegaard
August 27, 2018
A couple of particularly aggressive attacks on multiculturalism in Australia’s parliament today. As the saying goes, if you ever wondered how you’d have reacted to the rise of German Nazism, you’re doing it now.
Meshel Laurie
August 15, 2018
[on the National Energy Guarantee] It's so disappointing for our young people that such a huge decision is reduced to these schoolyard tactics and point scoring, when what we know, is a big investment should be made in renewables.
Lisa Annese
August 13, 2018
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
Soren Kierkegaard
August 6, 2018
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
