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Julianne Schultz

Julianne Schultz

The Guardian

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Taking tips from John Howard, Peter Dutton knows the barbecue stopper is key to shaping the national conversation

When Peter Dutton lumbered on to the national political stage in 2001 with his stiff policeman’s gait and hectoring manner, few saw him as prime...

14.12.2024 4

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Julianne Schultz

The US has long been Australia’s north star, but now the friendship needs a careful recalibration

For good and ill, the US has long been Australia’s tarnished, contested and imperfect north star. We have copied, modified and sometimes rejected...

09.11.2024 4

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Julianne Schultz

For years Queensland was the weird outlier – but could the weekend’s election show what’s to come nationally?

Queensland occupies a unique place in Australian public life: not quite a bellwether, but still a surprisingly frequent source of unlikely ideas...

27.10.2024 3

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Julianne Schultz

What can the voice’s failure and the past teach us about how Australia can be a nation that embraces progress?

By rights, the referendum to grant the nation’s First Peoples meaningful recognition should have been embraced by the Australian people. Instead,...

12.10.2024 2

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Julianne Schultz

Queensland truth telling won’t mean anything if it falls on deaf ears

In an event unimaginable even a decade ago, seven of the most powerful people in Queensland, heads of government departments, sat side by side on...

28.09.2024 5

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Julianne Schultz

Australia’s decades of harmful policy will be repaid in intergenerational trauma, and inquiries can only do so much

How many more inquiries into the decades-long consequences of bad policy must we live through? How many more times must the traumatic legacy of...

15.09.2024 10

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Julianne Schultz

For Australian identity to evolve, we must be able to see what has come before

Would America – and the world – be a different place if Bill Clinton’s 1992 election mantra had changed one word and declared, “It’s the...

10.08.2024 2

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Julianne Schultz

Most media barons hide their ambitions behind the language of journalistic impartiality. Not the Murdochs

Dynasties are rare in Australia. Those that want to change their homeland, generation after generation, are rare everywhere. Most democracies aim...

27.07.2024 2

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Julianne Schultz

We like to think we’re a secular nation, but our constitution needs to catch up with modern Australia

Australia is one of the most irreligious countries in the world. At the last census 10 million people said they had no religion, within this decade...

13.07.2024 1

The Guardian

Julianne Schultz