Parnell Palme McGuinness
Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director at campaigns firm Agenda C. She has done work for the Liberal Party and the German Greens.
Opinion
Culture wars
It’s the year that woke broke, a victim of its own excess
It’s been a long time coming, but at last you get the sense that people are waking up to wokeism.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Opinion
Trump's America
America is revolting, but at least it’s through the ballot box
Vigilantes such as America’s Luigi Mangione think violence will deliver justice. Trumpism is a revolutionary movement, but at least it’s arrived by democratic vote.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
ABC
The ABC has lost its curiosity. Joe Rogan can help Kim Williams recover it
The ABC chair says he won’t tune into Rogan. Well, he should hope his journalists are doing it for him.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Trade wars
Tariffs, sanctions or bans? What will Trump really achieve when the US says ‘no’
The president-elect has repeatedly promised tariffs as if to protect manufacturers – and workers. But the targets are revealing.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Social media
Off with the pixies: Musk’s X defectors discover their utopia
Millions of former tweeters have taken their spotless minds and ridden, on a butterfly’s wings, to an alternative reality: Bluesky, the microblogging site for progressive idealists.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Kevin Rudd
Please don’t send Kevin Rudd home, Mr Trump. He’s our favourite export
Donald Trump, Your Elective Majesty, you have much in common with our man in Washington. You just need to consider the “detailed programmatic specificity”.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
US Votes 2024
US War of Independence was a mistake. Consider Trump and be grateful for our King
As a lower-case republican Australian, I’m discovering that the US election is giving me more reasons to be a monarchist.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Culture wars
Hating ‘elites’ is stupid, and it’s no crime to say so … yet
We could pretend we live in a world where no one is smarter than anyone else, but I’d prefer we kept a grip on reality.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Abortion
Reborn abortion debate could terminate a viable Dutton government
If this becomes an election issue, Peter Dutton knows it could significantly harm his chances of scraping into government.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Kamala is running as a ‘no-brainer’. What if voters object to the idea they have no brain?
The polls are so tight in the US that three weeks might be enough for Kamala Harris to work out what she stands for and deliver a Democrat victory.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Nuclear energy
Pity nuclear energy is powering politics rather than our homes
The greatest regret with energy is that we didn’t start yesterday. We were too busy burning our personal energy on turning a technical discussion into a divisive debate.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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