The Policy Post

  Loss of vision. Australia’s leaders forgot how to lead. When Paul Keating moved out of the Prime Ministerial Lodge in Canberra on 21 March 1996 after showing John Howard around, a period of reform and vision ended and a new era of Australian political history began.

  After Trump, a fairer world? At noon on 20 January 2029, Donald Trump will no longer be president of the United States. What happens then?

  An age of discontent. Change is happening faster than human society can adjust. Discontent, disorder and alienation are the result.

  God is not dead. Yet. Most of the world is turning away from religion. Australia leads the pack.

  How to lose a war. History has many lessons about wars and how to lose them. Trump’s latest dismal escapade shows how completely he has failed to learn.

  The global oil crisis that wasn’t. Closing the Strait of Hormuz was supposed to cripple economies worldwide. It didn’t. Why?

  Out of chaos, hope Everywhere, democratic politics is in turmoil. When the confusion recedes, only the progressives will remain standing.

A lovely day in Dystopia. What sort of world do the far-right populists want to create? And what do their billionaire backers want for their money?

  The sullen revolution. Discontent in western democracies feeds the surge in right-wing populism. But why? And why now?

   One damn theory after another (1) Those big economic theories all seemed like good ideas at the time. Only later did we realise the economists had wrecked the joint.