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The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments

  • Written by: Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University
imageOpponents of marriage equality need to be honest about their implicit premises.Kurt Löwenstein Educational Center International Team/Wikimedia commons

With the re-election of the Turnbull government, the likelihood that marriage equality in Australia will be the subject of a harmful, expensive, and non-binding plebiscite becomes ever more...

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Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]

  • Written by: John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney

Part two of this series on capitalism and democracy introduced the unfamiliar idea of ‘democracy failure’. Instead of seeing democracy as the hapless victim of capitalist markets, as Marxists and others have typically done in the past, it examined the way market failures happen when the power-humbling mechanisms of monitory democracy...

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Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law

  • Written by: Simon Tormey, Professor of Political Theory and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
imageDo outdated fantasies of anarchism simply play into the agendas of the rich and privileged? Nuit debout in Paris, 2016. Nicolas Vigier/flickr

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in...

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Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom

  • Written by: Saul Newman, Professor of Political Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. This article is the third of four perspectives on the political relevance of anarchy and the prospects for liberty in the...

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  2. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  3. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  4. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  5. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  6. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  7. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  8. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  9. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  10. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?
  11. Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads
  12. The man who brought science and a touch of humanity to Australia's Olympic swimming hopes
  13. We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them
  14. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate
  15. Women are satisfied with 'women's work' but not with the pay
  16. Common method of preventing early births may be causing more
  17. Raising chisel to stone, and making art
  18. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  19. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  20. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  21. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  22. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  23. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  24. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  25. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  26. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
  27. Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?
  28. Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go
  29. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  30. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  31. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  32. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  33. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  34. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  35. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  36. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  37. Ethics and writing
  38. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  39. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  40. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  41. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  42. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  43. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  44. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  45. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  46. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?
  47. Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think
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  49. Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans
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