Dreaming of a free and fair media: when a rolling debate gathered a MossBy Mark Sawyer | March 5, 2022Fifty years ago, an Australian government had big plans for the media, seeing it as biased in favour of ...
This changes everything, from the world stage to polling booths far from the fatal steppesBy Mark Sawyer | February 25, 2022As the world watches in horror the Russian assault on Ukraine, it seems crass to discuss what it means for a ...
What happens when you bet the house against one of our leading politicians?By Mark Sawyer | February 19, 2022It was an Australian citizenship challenge no other, pitting an ordinary citizen against the Treasurer Josh ...
Slip, sliding away: is Western Australia doing a bit of conscious uncoupling from the rest of Oz?By Mark Sawyer | January 22, 2022Is a third of the Australian continent planning to stay cut off from the other two-thirds forever. Mark Sawyer ...
Future shock: the electorates of Abbott, and Howard, and Rudd, and Turnbull …By Mark Sawyer | December 26, 2021There is no doubt that Tony Abbott, as a former prime minister, will have a federal electorate named after him ...
Gladys v Zali: right battle, wrong timeBy Mark Sawyer | December 12, 2021The decision by Gladys Berejiklian to not contest the seat of Warringah deprives us of what would have been one of ...