Weakening the separation of the legislative and administrative branches of the law risks a partisan judiciary that acts on political intent rather than justice guidelines.
Farrer has become the canary in the electoral mine, highlighting that voters in regional areas have had enough of being ignored.
The NSW Court of Appeal struck down Minns’ emergency protest ban as unconstitutional.
Democracy must grow beyond the blight of the performative and blind tribal loyalty through genuine accountability to rebuild voter trust.
Australia must learn from the deterioration of democratic freedoms of the United States and defend the freedoms of individuals and independence of the courts.
The slide of the United States to an autocratic state reflects a broader trend across the world.
Opportunistic appeals to cultural tropes, economic and security fears by right wing conservatives fails to identify the true causes of instability.
Assuming controls on freedom of speech in Australia lies in the hands of governments ignores extensive legal precedent and civic discourse.
The Bill's exposure draft posed significant risks to core rule-of-law principles, crucial to the underlying premise of democracy.
Contemporary social and political extremism represents an expansive moral cowardice that threatens inclusion and genuine democracies.
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The humanities are essential to building and maintaining social cohesion and ethics.
Voters opinions are swayed by cultural identities, media, structural incentives and distrust of government, resulting inthem voting against their interests.
Privilege and systemic inequality make a mockery of the concept of meritocracy, requiring bold reforms.
Fostering an environment in which criticism does not lead to accusations of antisemitism is necessary to ensure genuine free speech.
The legacy of the flawed assumptions of the Carter Doctrine must be faced in order to find regional stability.
The Australian legal system needs to tackle the tactical lawfare employed by the Zionist lobby that curtails criticism at the expense of free speech.
The opportunity for Australians of all colours, creeds and origins to reject division are within our reach.
A Taylor-Price opposition leadership team with its populist strategies will result in further irrelevance among the electorate.