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Shamit Saggar

October 2024

Universities should be places of learning, not corporations.

How do our universities get their social licence back?

There are four issues that universities need to address if they are to revive their troubled reputations in Australian society.

February 2024

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly greet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Belfast’s four lessons for Gaza

Israel and Palestine have not capitalised on earlier, hard-won gains favouring reconciliation over revenge. Northern Ireland shows how this can be done.

November 2023

Palestinian supporters at the Sydney Opera House.

Dissent over Palestine shows a healthy Australian democracy

When minorities in Australia take sides in foreign conflicts, it’s not out of a refusal to integrate. It is quite the opposite.

April 2023

Peter Dutton.

Liberal renewal should start with embracing the migrant dream

Over the long term, Australia will be ill-served by having just one party monopolising the support of ethnic minorities.

November 2022

Over the years, Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong watched the last government squander engagement opportunity after opportunity with our regional neighbours.

Three summits can renew Australia’s engagement with Asia

Labor now has the opportunity to take all our foreign policy eggs out of the US and UK security alliances.

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October 2022

Conservative Party leader and incoming prime minister Rishi Sunak.

Serious Sunak offers UK and the Tories a reset moment

Britain’s new Prime Minister has shown formidable ability. He will need it to do what the economy needs and then win an election.

September 2022

King Charles III faces the challenge of keeping the union, the Commonwealth and his family together.

The uncertain survival of Charles III

The new King has spent half a lifetime carelessly testing the limits of the model that has mother bequeathed him. Does he have the personal restraint to stay in his lane?

July 2022

Thatcher gave the right an ideological glue that worked.

Boris exit must be a reset for the right

The global right has been seduced by the fool’s gold of populist leaders. The British PM’s resignation is a chance to focus on long-term economic revival with a clear ideological purpose.

November 2021

The UK’s Cabinet comprises seven visible minorities, including Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

Why are top jobs in Australia still snowy white peaks?

The lack of ethnic diversity at the apex of business, politics and the professions is due to immigrants of all kinds having to blend in to the dominant Anglo-Celtic culture.

May 2020

Benign paternalism: If it takes 60 per cent of phone users to download the tracing app to be effective, is it worth considering incentives or punishments, if only for getting the last 5 per cent to sign up?

Disease has brought the new politics of benign paternalism

Even in democratic nations, COVID-19 has fostered faith in the idea that government knows how best to protect us.

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