The Australian Greens have decided to betray a just cause. David Shoebridge does not want Australia to provide military aid to Ukraine.

Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham, former champion of repatriation, changes his mind.

Xenophobes and people with xenophobic views are not the same. Both are bad. One is worse.

In her National Press Club address, Pauline Hanson issued a sinister injunction: “we must be monocultural”. Unpacking her euphemism, ‘monocultural’, we’re left with a grotesque political proposition.

15 August 2026: Five years on from the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan’s writers, journalists and independent voices continue to face severe repression. As European governments consider closer ...

Join PEN International, PEN Eritrea in Exile and PEN Centres worldwide in demanding proof of life for Eritrea's disappeared journalists and writers.

My Substack will now focus on Right-wing intellectual history. Why? Because the far-right is ascendant, and I will show how the Left can refute their talking points by spending time with the enemy.

On the face of it, Hanson is right that the 2021 census reported 872,000 people spoke English either “not well” or “not at all”. But that number hides details that make Hanson’s claim highly misleadin...

The Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is stereotyped as just another conservative. He isn't. His conservative jurisprudence is begins at a liberal premise: America is a racist country.

A critical discussion on the crucial role whistleblowing plays to Australian democracy.

The British Museum argues that they have a natural claim to the Marbles. They do not. When stripped of contingency and circumstance, the Greek claim is self-evident.

A defining economic debate of 20th century political economy was waged between the humanistic Keynesians and the fatalistic Austrians.

Tom Bramble’s book, Introducing Marxism: A Theory of Revolutionary Change, is Trotskyist propaganda. Febrile and bloated, it advances the revolutionary mission of Australia's Socialist Alternative.

A critical discussion on the crucial role whistleblowing plays to Australian democracy.

Dear Hong Kong,

Coalition leader Angus Taylor's proposed immigration policy confirmed what many Australians already suspected: the Liberal National Party does not like liberal democracy.

PEN International Case List 2026 launch

On ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, host Patricia Karvelas checked the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It raises the question: how much slack should we give accused criminals?

Pauline Hanson's One Nation has had recent success in the polls and in South Australia, but neither presage a nation-changing, and lasting, far-right surge.