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Serious times call for serious leaders

Serious times call for serious leaders
26.03.2026 10

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Allan Patience

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 20

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The end of the lucky country’s security fantasy

28.01.2026 30

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Australia’s teachers – undervalued and overburdened

15.12.2025 10

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Allan Patience

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

09.12.2025 10

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

26.11.2025 10

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

14.11.2025 10

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Allan Patience

Why gen Z could be the generation to change it all

29.10.2025 10

The New Daily

Allan Patience

Is Gen-Z the transformative generation?

28.10.2025 10

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The governance crisis in Australia’s universities

22.08.2025 10

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The US is a very foreign country

04.08.2025 10

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An entirely new approach to public policy

30.07.2025 10

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Allan Patience

The contemporary world is run by political dinosaurs facing extinction

30.06.2025 10

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Allan Patience

Australian foreign policy is in the doldrums

26.06.2025 10

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Allan Patience

Australia’s misunderstanding of the Asian Century

13.05.2025 7

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

10.04.2025 10

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Allan Patience

Is Dutton a ‘strong’ leader? Is Albanese a ‘weak’ leader?

18.03.2025 9

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Allan Patience

Dutton may be the tip of a Trumpist foreign policy

14.03.2025 10

The New Daily

Allan Patience

Is Peter Dutton the tip of a Trumpist foreign policy for Australia?

13.03.2025 10

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Trump 2.0 and the crisis in Australia’s delusional middle power imagining

01.03.2025 10

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Australia’s hard culture and Great Replacement Theory

26.02.2025 10

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The problem of God

16.02.2025 10

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Strong leaders versus inspiring leaders: Australia’s current dilemma

05.02.2025 20

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Australian society is in danger of unravelling

29.01.2025 10

The New Daily

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The unravelling of Australian society

27.01.2025 10

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How will Trump reshape our foreign policy? Here's three possibilities

12.01.2025 30

Canberra Times

Allan Patience

The disruptions to come: Australian foreign policy in the Trump era

10.01.2025 10

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Allan Patience