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Neoliberalism dreads an educated electorate

Those with a dedicated interest in maintaining the status quo fear education in the wrong hands. America’s current moment illuminates trends in...

30.04.2024 30

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Silencing resistance

Those with a dedicated interest in maintaining the status quo fear education in the wrong hands. America’s current moment illuminates trends in...

29.04.2024 10

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Violence in our churches

We must always condemn violence. There must be no tolerance for brutality, and we must take action to diminish violence whether it is tied to family...

25.04.2024 40

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The paradox of tolerance: do we suppress authoritarians'…

The global movement towards authoritarianism took a step forward this week, and faced an experiment in checking its infiltration. In America, a...

21.04.2024 50

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Do we suppress authoritarians’ speech before they suppress us?

The global movement towards authoritarianism took a step forward this week, and faced an experiment in checking its infiltration. In America, a...

20.04.2024 10

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The Bishop

We must always condemn violence. There must be no tolerance for brutality, and we must take action to diminish violence whether it is tied to family...

19.04.2024 6

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Fossil Fuel's war on protest

Madeleine King, Minister for Resources in the Albanese government recently announced that she will curtail the ability of Australians to challenge...

16.04.2024 40

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The Voice and Australia’s democracy crisis

The dire state of truth in Australia’s civic space crystallised in 2023. We had seen the waning influence of News Corp’s impact on our elections...

12.04.2024 10

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The Meanjin essay: The Voice and Australia's democracy…

with Stephen Charles AO KC The dire state of truth in Australia’s civic space crystalised in 2023. We had seen the waning influence of News Corp’s...

11.04.2024 70

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Fossil fuel’s war on protest

Madeleine King, Minister for Resources in the Albanese government, recently announced that she will curtail the ability of Australians to challenge...

09.04.2024 30

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A Republican victory in 2024 is a "free…

After the Super Tuesday results signalled Trump would become the Republican presidential candidate in November, a first promise was that “We’re...

02.04.2024 10

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A Republican victory in 2024 will be a climate disaster

After the Super Tuesday results signalled Trump would become the Republican presidential candidate in November, a first promise was that “We’re...

24.03.2024 10

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Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism

We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy,...

22.03.2024 40

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Illiberalism: the Dunkley by-election and the cost of…

The liberal international order has been responsible for a great many deaths. If the “anti-liberal internationale” becomes ascendant, however, we...

12.03.2024 10

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Illiberalism ascendant: The Dunkley by-election and the cost of doing business

The liberal international order has been responsible for a great many deaths. If the “anti-liberal internationale” becomes ascendant, however, we...

07.03.2024 7

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Traditionalism: the belief that could doom us all

It can be difficult to understand what connects free market devotees, white ethnostate militants, Christian Nationalists, tech bros and mere...

05.03.2024 50

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New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas…

Just as the Atlas Network-connected Advance body intervened in the Voice referendum in Australia and, in recent weeks, a bye-election, similar...

03.03.2024 40

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A little support instead of billions on toxic cruelty

We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy,...

28.02.2024 10

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A grim atlas guides NZ’s right-wing politics

The coalition that took power in New Zealand late in 2023, after a campaign centred on attacking the country’s founding Waitangi Treaty, has been...

21.02.2024 10

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Lessons from the USA about patriotic beat-ups

As Australia approaches that time in January again, we see the unedifying picture of Peter Dutton’s team driving his post-referendum Base into a...

16.01.2024 8

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Lessons for Survival Day from America

As Australia approaches that time in January again, we see the unedifying picture of Peter Dutton’s team driving his post-referendum Base into a...

13.01.2024 7

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Atlas Network strategies: how fossil fuel is using…

Australians should be wondering why the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), one of the country’s proudest think tanks, has just established a body...

21.12.2023 30

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The Americanisation of Australian politics: watching the Atlas…

It is no accident that the Australian “conservative” movement has transformed into an echo of the toxic American Right. Fossil fuel money and a...

18.12.2023 40

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Secrecy and the climate disinformation industry

The Atlas Network’s main goal has been to spot and train global talent in the ultra free-market libertarian field and connect it to the free-flowing...

16.12.2023 10

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Resisting Christian Nationalism: Secularism Australia's inaugural conference

Spiritual and cultural Christians – indeed such people of all faiths – need to consider allying together with those who identify as belonging to...

11.12.2023 40

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Christian nationalists versus the rest

Spiritual and cultural Christians – indeed such people of all faiths – need to consider allying together with those who identify as belonging to...

09.12.2023 7

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Tony Abbott and the Australian right: a grim…

Tony Abbott added two new posts to his resume this month, debuting as Fox director and announced to be “joining the Danube Institute team as a guest...

02.12.2023 7

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Coalition politicians are embracing far right Orbanist ideology

Tony Abbott added two new posts to his resume this month, debuting as Fox director and announced to be “joining the Danube Institute team as a guest...

30.11.2023 7

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Elections demand transparency to halt schemes by Christofascists…

West Australia’s council elections seem a strange place to pinpoint a warning about American radicalising political games infiltrating the...

29.11.2023 10

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Deception: Radicalised groups are infiltrating Australian democracy in your town

West Australia’s council elections seem a strange place to pinpoint a warning about American radicalising political games infiltrating the...

26.11.2023 7

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Chaos and confusion are intentional weapons: Albanese must…

The Albanese government announced this week that it would weaken proposed disinformation-suppressing measures because the Coalition was implacably...

15.11.2023 30

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Judges fail to understand: people must pay a…

Victoria’s leading Neo Nazi left the County Court in Melbourne recently with the judge’s message, “Good luck with the future, Gentlemen”...

09.11.2023 5

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Australian judges are failing to protect society from violent extremism

Victoria’s leading Neo Nazi left the County Court in Melbourne on Friday with the judge’s message, “Good luck with the future, Gentlemen”...

05.11.2023 6

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Climate change deniers, theocrats and neoliberals meet in…

It was helpful of Greg Sheridan to advertise in The Australian (27/10) the new ultraconservative conference that he is attending in London. While his...

01.11.2023 40

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An ultraconservative shadow network is forming, designed to influence you

It was helpful of Greg Sheridan to advertise in The Australian (27/10) the new ultraconservative conference that he is attending in London. While his...

31.10.2023 8

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Victorian government neuters its integrity body

By Stephen Charles and Lucy Hamilton The Victorian government has just acted to ensure that the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission...

21.10.2023 20

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Reforming money in politics: crushing Dark Money without…

One of the most crucial decisions about the shape of our democracy is about to be resolved. The Coalition and the ALP appear to have reached a...

16.10.2023 10

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Dark money is distorting the Voice debate

The Voice campaign has revealed how much Dark Money is distorting our political debates. But will proposed reforms of money in politics crush the...

13.10.2023 6

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Conservative parties have become post-democratic: the Voice No…

The 21st century international Right which has hijacked the old conservative parties is post-democratic. The use that the Coalition parties are making...

10.10.2023 20

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The Voice reveals the urgent need for truth…

The fact that Elon Musk has just halved his election integrity team this week on X/Twitter at the same time as a former integrity executive at the...

01.10.2023 6

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The Voice reveals the urgent need for truth reforms

The knowledge that the official AEC Yes and No campaign pamphlet sent to every home in Australia was not obliged to be factual is shocking. ...

27.09.2023 6

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The war on "gender" is a fascist threat

The Right is obsessed with gender. This deep paranoia comes out of America and international far right movements. It harms straight people and LGBTQIA...

10.09.2023 50

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