Author Archives: John Menadue

Largely because of the budgetary impact of the global financial crisis, we missed the opportunity a decade ago to fix the Australian tax and transfer systems.

We have to make democracy work for the masses, not just the rich and powerful.

We need to address the distrust epidemic among voters and return to the reformist urge to offer a better vision splendid

The Coalition war is over climate change and whether the city-based moderates or the reactionary rural rump will prevail.

Australia is now home to more than 1.3 million citizens of Chinese heritage. They have been profoundly alienated.

On Tuesday in the Australian Senate, Labor’s Kim Carr rose to his feet, thundering about “hawks intent on fighting a new cold war”.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has served to magnify political, economic and cultural tensions within and between Australia and China.

Recently the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command spoke in Sydney. He criticised China’s behaviour in very strong terms, but in talking about the United States’ role and attitudes he described a set of policies that no longer exist.

The successful outcome of Labor Leader Albanese’s nomination for office of a disaffected Queensland National was a deft move.

Almost all the arguments against constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders went out the window on Tuesday, courtesy of a decision by the High Court (Love v The Commonwealth).

Perhaps, after almost 100 years, the time has finally arrived when we can declare the Irish Civil War to be over.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Coalition partners are fond of declaring that they are free of factions. But factionalism is alive and well.

What Democrats need to do is articulate their message in terms of metaphors that voters can understand, and stick to their core values, George Lakoff said.

The stalemate between the US and the DPRK has dragged on past the Kim Jong-un’s end of 2019 deadline.

 The travel bans dramatically escalate the potential economic impact of the novel coronavirus.

The president’s new budget would cut more than $3 billion in global health programs.

The Centre for Public Integrity invites you to the inaugural National Integrity Forum: “Strangling Accountability”.

Barnaby Joyce is focussed and determined to the point of egomania, and utterly ruthless in the process. That is what makes him dangerous.

We need an inquiry into how public service stewards provide dubious alibis for ministers