The Long-Read Essay: Democracy, Power and Australia at the Crossroads
2025 was the year the comforting myths finally fell away. In this long-read essay, we trace how democratic institutions – globally and in Australia – proved far more fragile than many assumed, as misi...
19 Dec 202510min
The Review of 2025 Part 4: AUKUS, cancel culture and how Labor governs
Australia enters 2026 facing deep strategic uncertainty: AUKUS costs have blown out to $1.3 billion with little clarity about what Australia is actually buying, while fear-driven national-security pol...
12 Dec 202538min
The Review of 2025 Part 3: All the way with the US forever
As the United States slides into institutional decay under Donald Trump’s return to the White House – with sweeping tariffs on global trade, mass deportations, rolled-back civil rights and an increasi...
11 Dec 202510min
The Review of 2025 Part 2: A big Labor win, Liberal collapse and silencing Palestine
In our continuing review of the 2025 year in Australian federal politics, we discuss the federal election held in May, analysing one of the worst campaigns by a major political party in modern history...
5 Dec 202545min
The Review of 2025 Part 1: Culture wars, Treaty and the collapse of the politics of fear
To commence our review of the 2025 year in Australian federal politics, this bonus episode examines the continuing culture wars, the Australia Day and Invasion Day debate, and a federal election that ...
4 Dec 202514min
The Seat Warmers: What Is The Purpose Behind Labor?
In the final week of Parliament, New Politics asks a blunt question about Australian federal politics: what is the Albanese Labor government actually for? This episode turns its focus to Labor’s recor...
28 Nov 202553min
Hanson’s Burqa Stunt and the Political Nihilism of the Right
We look at the political theatre of the right, including Pauline Hanson’s latest burqa stunt in the Senate, the rise of One Nation in the polls, and the growing battle for reactionary votes between mi...
27 Nov 202511min
Retail Politics is Killing the Liberal Party
This week, we examine how the Liberal Party has abandoned serious policy for retail politics, scare campaigns and culture-war theatrics – strategies aimed at clawing back voters drifting to One Nation...
21 Nov 202550min
