Democracy
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Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court by GOP senators
No Democratic senator supported Barrett’s confirmation — the first time since the mid-1800s that a Supreme Court nominee has not…
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Celebrations as Chile votes by huge majority to scrap Pinochet-era constitution
Chile has voted overwhelmingly in favor of rewriting the the country’s constitution to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago…
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Georgia and Russia: Why and How to Save Normalisation
But whoever wins at the polls should not abandon dialogue, but rather build on it to frankly discuss these problems.…
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Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence
As U.S. elections approach, extremist activity, the potential for contestation and President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to transferring power…
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Vice president of Liberty Victoria says drones are a ‘significant incursion of people’s privacy’
Vice president of Liberty Victoria, Julia Kretzenbacher, told Tom Elliot that it is a “significant incursion of people’s privacy”. 3AW693…
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Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election
The next test will be whether the result entrenches minority grievances that fuel armed conflict or revives reform efforts to…
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Online Symposium: George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom
This symposium is free and open to the public. Details: 1) The Online Symposium can be accessed via Zoom /…
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‘Chilling attack on democracy’: proposed Asio powers could be used against journalists
Journalists and advocacy groups could face compulsory questioning by Asio as part of a proposed expansion of the spy agency’s…
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We’re dealing away our media diversity
The year was 2017. The place: Parliament House in Canberra. Then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and then-communications minister Mitch Fifield were…
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‘The tyranny of merit’ is tearing America apart
The meritocracy are the elite, the richest, most privileged of Americans who have a stranglehold on power and wealth. Stan…
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Ardern wins landslide in New Zealand election
With two thirds of the vote counted, Ardern’s center-left Labour Party was on 49.2 percent and forecast to take around…
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Renewing a Stoic philosopher’s Cypriot passport
Born in the 4th century BCE of Phoenician descent he was known as Zeno of Citium the Hellenic kingdom on…
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Democracy is fragile.
On the night Barack Obama won the US presidency, most of Washington DC was euphoric. Peter Hartcher The Age City…
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Behind Bangkok’s Wave of Popular Dissent
In this Q&A, Crisis Group’s senior analyst for South East Asia, Matt Wheeler, explains how this crisis over political legitimacy…
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Ten thousand protesters defy Thai crackdown after emergency decree and arrests
Some 10,000 Thai protesters have gathered in defiance of a sweeping crackdown after authorities moved to crush months of pro-democracy…
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NZ election 2020: Jacinda Ardern promised transformation — instead, the times transformed her
Our borders were open, no one knew what PPE stood for, and social distancing was something people did when they…
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