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Political Philosophy - 2013

The progression deficit: the people and the power

by Brenton Luxton - 8/01/2013 - 18 comments

Local government referendum should be rejected in interests of the federation

by Grant Wyeth - 5/07/2013 - 14 comments

How to get policy right, in spite of democracy

by John Burnheim - 7/11/2013 - 1 comment

Australians hungry for detailed debate and policy

by Kathryn Crosby - 21/11/2013 - 5 comments

The role of government

by Kevin Andrews - 3/05/2013 - 7 comments

The peddling of guilt

by Douglas Hurst - 5/09/2013 - 5 comments

Realism and democracy

by Syd Hickman - 31/01/2013 - 5 comments

Does Woolwich killing lead to nihilism?

by Bill Calcutt - 27/05/2013 - 21 comments

Embracing Labor's new world...it's time

by Patricia Jenkings - 26/09/2013 - 17 comments

The Liberals should show respect to potential allies

by David Leyonhjelm - 2/10/2013 - 12 comments

The culturally imperial and the satanic

by David Fisher - 15/05/2013 - 15 comments

Senate reform: from voter confusion to voter power

by Neveshevida Balasubramanian - 30/10/2013 - 8 comments

On a fateful day in 1963

by Lachlan Dunjey - 22/11/2013 - 12 comments

Redefining regionalism

by Vince Hooper - 9/01/2013 - 4 comments

Rank and file to elect leader

by George Morgan - 11/07/2013 - 10 comments

Minor Christian parties: is there a resurrection in sight?

by Bernard Gaynor - 19/11/2013 - 19 comments

The old school tie in Australian politics

by Ray Cassin - 17/10/2013 - 6 comments

Deficit deeper than economy

by Richard Eckersley - 4/10/2013 - 91 comments

It's 'social justice' time

by Don Aitkin - 2/07/2013 - 15 comments

How to politicise Aussie youth? A job would be nice

by Kellie Tranter - 2/07/2013 - 12 comments

The Precautionary Principle bites the dust

by Don Aitkin - 23/08/2013 - 34 comments

System change missing in election policies!

by Klaas Woldring - 4/09/2013 - 5 comments

Everything else

by Mark Christensen - 27/12/2013 - 5 comments

Dogmas change but habits remain

by Mark Christensen - 31/05/2013 - 55 comments

Maybe the ADF needs to recover a sense of chivalry

by Mike Bird - 19/06/2013 - 39 comments

What binds us?

by Bill Calcutt - 21/06/2013 - 4 comments

Jay-Z and Beyoncé: veganism is much more than a cleanse

by Nicholas Pendergrast - 17/12/2013 - 27 comments

Some truth and some fantasy in Latham's Labor account

by Jason Wilson - 2/04/2013 - 7 comments

Public governance, parliament and politics – the last frontier for innovation and reform?

by Vern Hughes - 9/04/2013 - 8 comments

An open letter to the citizens of Australia

by Matt Large - 2/07/2013 - 39 comments

Leslie Cannold: the woman who makes Assange palatable

by Evelyn Tsitas - 31/07/2013 - 8 comments

Budget transparency to improve our politics

by Rosie Williams - 4/10/2013 - 3 comments

Take CARE

by Rosie Williams - 21/10/2013

Should we force fluoride?

by Emily McAuliffe - 18/04/2013 - 87 comments

Truth, justice and human rights

by Peter Sellick - 11/07/2013 - 15 comments

Non violent, never passive: remembering Gandhi

by Lyn Bender - 2/10/2013 - 23 comments

Human violence: understanding it; ending it

by Robert Burrowes - 10/10/2013 - 44 comments

The struggle for meaning in a world of violence

by Robert Burrowes - 25/10/2013 - 12 comments

People who pretend to be your friend: collaborators and traitors

by Robert Burrowes - 5/07/2013 - 14 comments

Hannah Arendt on refugees

by Genevieve Lloyd - 22/07/2013 - 4 comments

The laugh till you cry election

by Lyn Bender - 20/08/2013 - 32 comments

On the turning away

by EJ Cook - 28/08/2013 - 16 comments

The search for a godless vision of morality in Australian politics

by Mitchell Landrigan - 4/02/2013 - 28 comments

Free speech challenge to Australian vilification laws

by Jo Coghlan - 6/02/2013 - 18 comments

Academics and the policy context for the Abbott Government

by Don Aitkin - 16/09/2013 - 4 comments

Prelude to major system change?

by Klaas Woldring - 11/04/2013 - 8 comments

Some thoughts for the new management

by Margaret Somerville - 18/11/2013 - 12 comments

Power, politics, populism and principle

by Bill Calcutt - 19/07/2013 - 5 comments

A plea for less 'honesty', more candour

by Nicholas Gruen - 1/03/2013 - 6 comments

Hayek and Popper: smothered giants of the Twentieth Century

by Rafe Champion - 23/07/2013 - 3 comments

How should humans treat animals?

by Allen Greer - 31/07/2013 - 13 comments

Imagine government funding science!

by Rafe Champion - 18/09/2013 - 13 comments

A parliament of leakers: WikiLeaks and the new vision

by Binoy Kampmark - 9/08/2013 - 6 comments

A would-be PM and right wing think tanks

by John Turner - 8/04/2013 - 33 comments

Life on the line: can humanity survive?

by Robert Burrowes - 2/10/2013 - 18 comments

Profession politics: rule by lobby group?

by Mal Fletcher - 23/07/2013 - 2 comments

We must stop defending Islam

by Jed Lea-Henry - 6/08/2013 - 122 comments

Election notes: euthanasia dark clouds

by Paul Russell - 19/08/2013 - 14 comments

It’s time (to panic)

by Richard Stanton - 28/08/2013 - 5 comments

The destruction of Barack Obama

by Robert Burrowes - 18/07/2013 - 8 comments

The myth of the mandate

by Ian Robinson - 7/11/2013 - 76 comments

The complex Margaret Thatcher

by Don Aitkin - 12/04/2013 - 26 comments

Minority governments provide the best form of democracy

by Everald Compton - 2/05/2013 - 10 comments

On 'negativity' in our politics

by Don Aitkin - 17/07/2013 - 12 comments

Why Fraser should not go Green

by Syd Hickman - 10/07/2013 - 16 comments

Rule by minorities is not 'democracy'

by Humph Applebee - 13/09/2013 - 6 comments

Simplifying the Senate

by Syd Hickman - 3/10/2013 - 5 comments

Left or right?

by Colin James - 6/11/2013 - 13 comments

The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital.

by John Pilger - 18/03/2013 - 6 comments

The myth of leadership

by John Burnheim - 16/07/2013 - 4 comments

It's time - to enrol

by Andrew Leigh - 12/08/2013 - 3 comments

A new niche

by Nick Casmirri - 26/11/2013 - 8 comments

Responding to Andrew Bolt: is social insurance 'class warfare'?

by Tristan Ewins - 4/04/2013 - 15 comments

Character before knowledge

by Noel Wauchope - 10/01/2013 - 6 comments

President Kev

by Chris Lehman - 15/07/2013 - 10 comments

A leadership challenge? Future strengths and present weaknesses

by Sarah John - 1/07/2013 - 7 comments

Julie Bishop on loyalty

by Max Atkinson - 8/02/2013 - 14 comments

Understanding Obama and other people who kill

by Robert Burrowes - 9/05/2013 - 6 comments

Are you equally okay? Political discourse, inequality and suicide

by Rob Cover - 13/09/2013 - 20 comments

Should freedom ignore fairness?

by Max Atkinson - 19/11/2013 - 4 comments

Tony Windsor on being independent

by Max Atkinson - 19/06/2013 - 4 comments

In defence of that barnyard of senate crossbenchers

by Philip Lillingston - 19/09/2013 - 7 comments

Electoral reform, now?

by Philip Lillingston - 14/10/2013 - 11 comments

Justification and excuse

by Max Atkinson - 31/12/2013 - 36 comments

Adam Smith and the political rhetoric of compassion

by Genevieve Lloyd - 5/07/2013 - 12 comments

Saving Julian Assange

by Lyn Bender - 7/08/2013 - 10 comments

Mr Rudd or 'Mr President'?

by Don Aitkin - 24/07/2013 - 10 comments

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