The risk: one country, two cultures
The Middle East war has exposed the sheer depth of shattered values in Australia.
The Middle East war has exposed the sheer depth of shattered values in Australia.
It was hard to win broad community support for the voice because most Australians had not been part of the debate that gave birth to it. Is Australia a nation now splitting into two cultures?
Amid the decline of international institutions, is Australia able to confront this tough reality or is it paralysed by domestic politics and weak leadership?
The 2002 debate to ratify the International Criminal Court saw a protracted tussle between a supportive Alexander Downer and a wary John Howard.
It is a reluctant but unavoidable conclusion – after eight months anti-Semitism is being normalised in Australia. This is a sad failure of our institutional elites.
Anthony Albanese seeks to transform Australia while Peter Dutton talks small, simple and suburban.
Jim Chalmers is the intellectual force that defines this government and he’s doing it his way. The risk is this budget is the wrong response for these economic times.
High migration, low productivity and social cohesion no longer fit together. The public isn’t happy.
While the message from Jim Chalmers is that Australia will master the new world of ‘churn and change’, the danger is that ‘churn and change’ may actually suffocate Australia.
Monetary policy is not an exact science and opinions differ among economists. But there are two nightmare scenarios for the Albanese government.
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