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Category: Australian Politics
Analysis of Australian political parties, policy debates, and the state of our democracy.
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The Teal Wave: What Independent Voters Are Really Telling the Major Parties
At the 2022 federal election, something unusual happened in Australian politics. A group of well-funded, community-backed independent candidates — mostly women, mostly standing in wealthy urban and suburban seats that had been safe Liberal territory for decades — won seats that the Liberal Party had held for generations. The media called them the “teal independents,”…
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Why Australian Politics Is So Boring (And Why That’s Actually Good)
By global standards, Australian politics is profoundly dull. Our most dramatic political events — the revolving door of prime ministers, the occasional leadership spill, the odd ministerial resignation — are tepid by international comparison. We have not had a January 6th. We have not had a prime minister charged with criminal conspiracy. We have not…
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In Defence of the Sensible Centre: Why Most Australians Are Already There
“Centrist” has become something of a term of abuse in Australia’s political discourse. To the far left, it signals timidity, complicity with the status quo, and a refusal to confront structural injustice. To the far right, it signals moral relativism, weak national identity, and the politics of the cosmopolitan elite. Both camps agree: the centre…
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