Politics

Here are some reblogs of some of Tim Harding’s favourite recent posts by other writers. (Reblogging does not necessarily entail endorsement of the views expressed).

2018

• Stop the sheep trade in the northern summer, veterinarians say
• Why it’s so hard to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy
• The roots of organic farming lie in fascism

2017

• Schools are not adequately preparing young Australians to participate in our democracy
• The pathologies of populism
• Young Australians are engaged in political issues, but unsure how democracy works
• Coal and the Coalition: the policy knot that still won’t untie
• Who are you calling ‘anti-science’? How science serves social and political agendas
• The new Department of Home Affairs is unnecessary and seems to be more about politics than reform
• The End of Representative Politics?
• Step up for science at the crossroads for humanity
• Peter Doherty: why Australia needs to march for science
• Edmund Burke on deliberative representatation
• Australian politics explainer: the writing of our Constitution
• Ayaan Hirsi-Ali – A question and answer session with one of the world’s most high profile critics of Islam
• Former ambassador Jeffrey Bleich speaks on Trump, disruptive technology, and the role of education in a changing economy
• Voters’ dislike of politics makes fixed four-year parliamentary terms look appealing
• Science, not silence
• Trump’s arrival means it’s time for Australia to review our relationship – and perhaps learn to say ‘no’
• All hail Trump, the great transgressor!
• Australian science making some progress amid the march of ministers
• Two cheers for Barack Obama

2016

• When it comes to election campaigns, is the gambling lobby all bark and no bite?
• Why Berlin Christmas market attack puts new pressure on Angela Merkel
• Rex Tillerson and the new transnational oligarchy
• Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
• Trump’s America: the irresponsible stakeholder?
• One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewish Bankers
• Australia should assume Trump won’t step back from his campaign commitments
• Five things that explain Donald Trump’s stunning presidential election victory
• Trump can kill trade deals but he can’t kill globalisation
• Trump the demagogue looks set to rule
• On the difficulty of being a world citizen
• The curious power of hate propaganda in open societies
• Trump’s claims of a conspiracy against him are undermining democracy
• Clinton triumphs over a trio of Trumps
• When truth is the first casualty of politics and journalism
• Trump or Clinton: who will be the best for our region?
• The rise of a conspiracy candidate
• A New Democratic Enlightenment?
• In an age of rhetoric, Australian politics is missing the American flair
• Today’s leaders could learn from Menzies, who built modern Australia without acting in haste
• Explainer: what is free speech?
• Better regulation of all political finance would help control foreign donations
• The Long Haul, Lessons from Public Life, by John Brumby
• Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
• Can we learn from Thucydides’ writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
• One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
• The Atlantic equates criticism of religion to racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism
• Please don’t explain: Hanson 2.0 and the war on experts
• Election explainer: why do I have to vote, anyway?
• No massacres and an accelerating decline in overall gun deaths: the impact of Australia’s major 1996 gun law reforms
• We are all liberals now
• The vaudeville, impact and substance of political name-calling
• Time for a real debate about our most important relationship
• The rising anti-Semitism of the Left
• Twenty years after the High Court’s Wik decision, how does the ‘judicial activism’ charge stand up?
• Our collective nuclear nightmare
• The ABC should work with commercial media outlets, not compete with them
• How far can you go to lawfully protect yourself in a home invasion?
• Trump: the pseudo-president in waiting
• Grattan on Friday: What’s bad for Bill Shorten? Too much election focus on the unions
• Islamic State exploiting Europe’s porous borders and intelligence failures: Turnbull
• University of Minnesota poised to adopt strong free-speech policy
• Let’s ditch the “rich old white dude” trope—and similar slurs
• Demagoguery the American way
• A Leftist decries the Authoritarian Left
• Have they no shame?
• Pinker opposes BDS boycott of Israel by American Anthropological Association
• Freedom of Expression
• UN decision is not ‘the end of the road’ that Assange claims it is
• John Cleese on offense and “political correctness”
• The McGarvie Model: a Republican Equivalent of Our Present System of Democracy
• Former Army chief David Morrison is the 2016 Australian of the Year
• Safe space hand wringers are attacking academic freedom – we must fight back
• Free speech is so last century

2015

• Should Academics Stay Out of Political Activism?
• A hail of hatred falls on moderate Muslim Maajid Nawaz, Internet fights back with humor
• Moderate Muslim Maajid Nawaz vilified by Left for trying to reform Islam
• Following suit: why political conventions matter
• Yes minister: how political appointments tip the scales of fearless advice
• Book review: Keating, by Kerry O’Brien
• How unwritten rules shape ministerial accountability
• Dealing with ministerial advisers: a practical guide for public servants
• Review: Political Amnesia – How We Forgot How To Govern
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why is a role model reviled?
• Malala versus Ayaan Hirsi Ali: why is one beloved and the other reviled?
• Frydenberg accuses grand mufti of an attempted ‘cover up’ and failure of leadership
• Catch and Kill, the Politics of Power, by Joel Deane
• Anonymous takes on Islamic State and that’s not a good thing
• Long live King Charles?
• Boris Johnson on the Paris terror attacks
• Paris: the war with ISIS enters a new stage
• Online gambling review should not ignore the problems in our own backyard
• Why politics today can’t give us the heroes we need
• Reviewing an anachronism? Labor to debate future of socialist objective
• Governments shouldn’t be able to censor research results they don’t like
• How Britain’s Election Divided the UK
• Islam and the media – let’s not fear open debate
• The alpine grazing debate was never about science
• A challenged democracy: wicked problems and political failures
• Canada and Australia share a political culture of conflict
• If dollars rule the world, why don’t the bees get a bailout?
• For this generation, and the next, it’s time to bring back the carbon tax
• The census matters – making it less frequent is a risky idea
• 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta
• Explainer: what is halal, and how does certification work?
• Explainer: how are Australia’s knights and dames appointed?
• The European exemplar
• Charlie Hebdo: the pen must defy the sword, Islamic or not
• The kind of toughness we need now

2014

• Political leaders ask how gunman was on the loose
• As Sydney siege comes to an end, the questions begin
• The ABC’s ‘me too’ strategy puts it on track for redundancy
• How to make Australia’s upper houses truly democratic
• Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef