Why Run If You Can't Win?
Rose Read is the Greens candidate for Goldstein in September’s federal election. Goldstein is a…More
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The Three Lies Labor Should Attack
A story from the 1915 Anzac campaign describes General Birdwood’s encounter with an Australian digger.…More
Choose Your Own Labor Disaster
Another weekend, another round of leadership speculation. It's a depressing time for the progressive cause,…More
Stop Breeding, For The Nation's Sake
Once every generation voters get a real life example of the ideological tension between sociobiology…More
Where To Now For Progressive Politics?
Some events don't happen when they're meant to happen. The 2013 election looks like being…More
Asbestos Scare Poison For Labor
These are agonising times for Labor's dwindling band of true believers. The government that swept…More
Dirty Funding Deal Collapses
Over the last six years covering politics for New Matilda, I've witnessed some amazing things.…More
Conroy Caves In To The Bookmakers
After a media firestorm, and its accompanying public disapproval, we've now got a reaction from…More
Just Who Is Playing Politics With Treasury?
In 1895, an obscure Viennese psychiatrist by the name of Sigmund Freud coined a term…More
No Advantage And No Courage
Media reports this week have repeated the already well-known fact that asylum seekers arriving by…More