Yesterday, Australia Voted…
After knifing Tony Abbott and assuming leadership of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull promised to usher in an age of fiscal discipline, tax cuts and…
Elections
“Establicons” Turning Away from Coalition?
One Christopher Carr, writing for Australia’s only periodical which is explicitly non-Marxist, Quadrant Magazine, has published a short reflection about the current Coalition government’s prevarications concerning the…
Questions for Conservatives After the Electoral Victory
Last night, Tony Abbott, who has routinely been denounced as an ‘extremist’ by progressives of all stripes1 was elected the 28th Prime Minister of Australia….
Conservative “Third Force”: Dying in Utero?
Reports of the counter-intuitive endorsement of a cultural Marxist candidate for ‘Katter’s Australian Party’ in the Australian Capital Territory’s upcoming elections, has cast a dark…
Quote of the Week: Maurice Cowling, “The Nature and Limits of Political Science”
“Governments which have ‘succeeded’ (in an administrative or governmental sense) may nevertheless ‘fail’ in an electoral sense; and there is no reason to suppose that…