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Tony Abbott in a dark place; Turnbull government all over the place

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imageMalcolm Turnbull's office was forced to clarify Attorney-General George Brandis' remarks on the timing of a plebiscite on same-sex marriage.AAP/Lukas Coch

In the latest example of the government’s cack-handedness, Attorney-General George Brandis on Sunday promised a plebiscite on same-sex marriage this year, only to have the Prime...

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Why I’d Vote For Donald Trump

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imageTed Cruz and Donald Trump

Every decent person looks on goggle eyed as Donald Trump continues his unlikely march to the Republican Party nomination. We are mesmerized by how he goes out of his way to flout every rule of “political correctness”, from calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and flirting with the Ku Klux Klan, to...

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Prime Minister's Office refuses to endorse Brandis' same-sex marriage timetable

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imageAttorney-General George Brandis predicts the prospective plebiscite on legalising same-sex marriage would be carried.AAP/Mick Tsikas

The Prime Minister’s Office has refused to back Attorney-General George Brandis’ commitment to a same-sex marriage plebiscite this year. A spokeswoman said the government was “committed to a...

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Are Elections Ruining Democracy?

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The Flemish historian and writer David Van Reybrouck has recently triggered a minor sensation in the Low Countries by insisting that Western democracies are suffering so much election fatigue (electoral democracy is ‘killing’ democracy, he says) that what is now needed is the replacement of periodic elections, the ritual of citizens...

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