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Peter LewisThe Guardian |
Of all the drivers of the populist wave, one of the most powerful is the sense of inevitability that surrounds what we are told is the march of...
Anyone who thinks the current immigration debate is simply about the number of foreigners being granted legal passage to Australia each year is only...
When you hear them cry “freedom”, you know a culture war is brewing. And so it was last week that a bid to make tech companies address the harmful...
One Nation’s byelection win at Secret Harbour on the weekend can be dismissed as the result of the politics of anger and exclusion, but if we are...
I wrote my first column for Guardian Australia in August 2016, when the winds of chaos were sweeping the globe, the forces of division were finding...
As the Albanese government approaches the midpoint of its second term and following last week’s gathering of its constituent parts, it’s time to...
The University of Sydney was the natural setting for Anthony Albanese to lay out his vision for how Australia should confront the profound economic...
Australians have had a gutful. Across this wide brown land the waves of anger generate their own source of energy as we raise the one-fingered salute...
James Valentine meets the pope at the Pearly Gates. This is not the lead-in to a punchline delivered too soon, but a match made in heaven that could...
The annual tabling of the budget and the budget reply may have been presented as a dusty ritual but the secret to understanding how it has landed is...
The CEOs of AI titans Microsoft and Anthropic have been duchessing Canberra. The reason? They have bet the house that we are at the beginning of an AI...
While the treasurer puts the finishing touches to a budget that was to be the lodestar of Labor’s second term, he could be forgiven for thinking he...
I never thought I’d have to write these words but here I am: my name is Peter and I am human. What seems like a self-evident proclamation needs to...
Canberra rolled out the red carpet this week to one of the AI overlords whose technology is driving the world down the path of creative destruction....
Australians watching fuel prices skyrocket and interest rates surge in the wake of Donald Trump’s “excursion” into Iran are starting to wonder...
With its vote surging, One Nation is throwing down the gauntlet to the entire Australian political system, not just to the Coalition but to...