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The “I am PM – therefore I can” principle doesn’t always work in a close parliament.

Political analyst Michelle Grattan looks at why the PMs religious discrimination bill was never going to make it through parliament.

The “I am PM – therefore I can” principle doesn’t always work in a close parliament.

Scott Morrison made three foolish and arrogant assumptions this week when he embarked on trying to push his controversial religious discrimination legislation through parliament.

Jason Falinski says pursuing Wikileaks founder’s return is a ‘delicate balancing act’; Bridget Archer backs his release and return

<strong>Wednesday</strong>: Australia’s island state opens to the mainland as NSW further eases restrictions. Plus: Christine Anu’s beloved items

Quebec Liberal Party leader Dominique Anglade held a special caucus to ensure internal rifts stay within the party.

Robert Michelss seminal treatise Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911) offers an important theoretical exposition of the core belief that underlies populist politics: namely, that the elites (inevitably) capture democracy from the common people. Michelss disillusionment with the elitist betrayal of democracy led the sociologist to embrace Mussolinis fascism, a biographical note that seems to validate contemporary fears about populisms...

PM threatens to deliver another chapter of climate failure We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Shaun CarneyColumnist for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald April 27, 2021 — 11.55pm April 27, 2021 — 11.55pm Save Normal text size Advertisement Did the year 2007 really happen? Given so much of what’s gone on since then, it’s hard to believe it did. That was when John Howard’s Coalition government and the Labor opposition ...