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What is a monoculture?

What is a monoculture?

The idea of a monoculture is repressive. What Australia needs is the opposite – a revived cosmopolitan version of multiculturism. Pauline Hanson is...

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Inequality in Australia is growing

To address inequality and the social problems it gives rise to, Australia must return to a robust mixed economy with essential services in public...

18.06.2026 20

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Populism grows where inequality is ignored

Populism is often dismissed or ridiculed, but its rise reflects decades of policy choices that have deepened inequality and left many Australians...

10.04.2026 20

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Serious times call for serious leaders

26.03.2026 40

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Reclaiming the common good from neoliberalism

New thinking about the common good challenges decades of neoliberal policy and raises questions about inequality, public services and Australia’s...

17.03.2026 40

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The end of the lucky country’s security fantasy

28.01.2026 40

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Australia’s teachers – undervalued and overburdened

15.12.2025 20

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Too many states, too little nation: time to fix the federation

09.12.2025 20

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Non-aligned and successful: Indonesia’s lesson for Australian foreign policy

26.11.2025 20

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China-phobia in Australia is endangering the country’s security

14.11.2025 20

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Why gen Z could be the generation to change it all

29.10.2025 30

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Allan Patience

Is Gen-Z the transformative generation?

28.10.2025 20

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The governance crisis in Australia’s universities

22.08.2025 30

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Allan Patience

The US is a very foreign country

04.08.2025 20

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An entirely new approach to public policy

30.07.2025 30

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The contemporary world is run by political dinosaurs facing extinction

30.06.2025 20

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Australian foreign policy is in the doldrums

26.06.2025 20

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Australia’s misunderstanding of the Asian Century

13.05.2025 20

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It’s time to rethink socialist principles amid the ruins of neoliberalism

10.04.2025 20

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Allan Patience