Keywords: Disillusionment
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 16 March 2011
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 09 March 2011
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 07 January 2011
5 Comments
It would be easy to cast a donkey vote or a vote for a minor party and to thus wash your hands of the responsibility for our governance for the next three or so years. In a representative democracy, a vacuous election represents a lazy polity.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
15 Comments
Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
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AUSTRALIA
- Colin Long
- 06 September 2010
7 Comments
On the most important issues facing the nation, indeed the world —
climate change — we have had a Prime Minister who vaguely recognises
the problem but resists doing anything about it, and an opposition
leader who trivialises it to a question of tax.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 August 2010
10 Comments
Though the Independents are raising
expectations about a 'new politics', the forces behind the status quo are strong and the public is fickle. If
they fail to deliver they might eventually suffer a
backlash, like Kevin Rudd and the Democrats before them.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 23 August 2010
32 Comments
The result suggests some fascinating questions. Prime among them is whether Labor panicked and threw away this election when it deposed Kevin Rudd and replaced him with Julia Gillard in June. Would Rudd have done better? The answer is probably yes.
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 20 August 2010
22 Comments
It would be easy to cast a donkey vote or a vote for a minor party and to thus wash your hands of the responsibility for our
governance for the next three or so years. In a representative democracy, a vacuous election represents a lazy polity.
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RELIGION
- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 June 2009
8 Comments
In the Rudd/Obama era there are new parallels and convergences with regard to religion in Australia and the US. The figures may be on the slide, but rumours of the death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 26 September 2008
2 Comments
Elias' belief in freedom sees him join Che Guevara in an African campaign, and insurgent movements in Angola and Somalia. He learns that ideological commitments mask simpler human desires for riches, revenge, status and sex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Roger Trowbridge
- 11 June 2008
1 Comment
I knew little about Chinese politics, but it suited me to be seen as a 'leftie', and a green hat with a red star
left little room for political ambiguity. What appeared at first as wisps of hair were in fact the legs
of a large creature attempting to step off the
peak of my cap.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sara Niner
- 22 February 2008
4 Comments
Post-traumatic stress syndrome affects one third of the population of East Timor. Some survive as empathetic, generous and forgiving people. Others, such as late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, do not.
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