Michael Bradley
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From Federation to Howard, there's nothing new about Australia's immigration freak out (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. Australia is feeling uneasy about immigration. This is not new. But we are a migrant nation. So why are the political/media class drumming up anti-migrant fear? And why is it resonating so quickly and deeply that every political issue is suddenly only approachable through its lens? I say again: this is not new. It is an easy task to trace this country’s anxiety over immigration through the laws we have made to manage it. What it reveals is th
Could Pauline Hanson become prime minister as a senator? Yes, actually (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. Could Pauline Hanson become prime minister? Many punters like to claim that no, she cannot, pointing to the fact that the One Nation leader is a senator and thus in the wrong house of parliament. But though convention dictates the prime minister come from the House of Representatives, convention isn’t law. So, what’s the true constitutional position? Well, like all things parliamentary, it’s fascinating. Hanson is a senator, not a member of t
Taylor wants to criminalise flag-burning. It shows the Liberals' attachment to free speech is dead (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. “Sacrilege”. That’s Opposition Leader Angus Taylor’s word for what it means to him when someone publicly burns the Australian flag. To explain how this particular act is distinguishable from other, non-sacred acts of political expression, Taylor said the flag is “a symbol” and “a part of our nation and our heritage that really matters”. Sacrilege, to be clear, is a violation of a sacred thing. What is sacred, in turn, is something considered
Pauline Hanson now thinks 'words have consequences'. She's in court arguing the opposite (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. “Words have consequences. That is how political violence is incited” — Pauline Hanson, August 31, 2026. Lest I be accused of quoting our nation’s pre-eminent wordsmith out of context, the senator made this remark in the wake of two recent addresses by Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers to party faithful on Sunday, in which they described One Nation as a “threat to our country and its cohesion”. Hanson also said that “telling Australians that t
Banning books becomes burning books — and it never ends there (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. The book ban is a tradition as old as, well, books. From the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum issued by Pope Paul IV in 1559 that forbade Roman Catholics from reading Machiavelli, to the current mania of various US states banning any book that mentions sex or (the horror!) gays, moral panic in public libraries has been a constant theme. We’re not immune to it in Australia. In the past week, Sydney’s Waverley Council confirmed that How to Sel
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