Lessons to be learned in the art of the middle ground
Fraternal links between UK Labour and Australian Labor may be long and deep but both are walking a fine political line, writes Geoff Kitney. No-one is quite sure why the great fraternal parties…
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Britain is hurting. Who will fix Brexit?
It takes courage to revisit political mistakes but it’s easier for leaders to turn a blind eye, writes Geoff Kitney. If there was a moment that summed up the weird politics of…
Political manoeuvres
The right-wing agenda backed by Rupert Murdoch’s media machine in Australia is changing the face of public discourse, writes Geoff Kitney. Australia recently marked the birthday of one of its most extraordinary…
A sea change in the UK is on the political horizon
Murray Ritchie poses the question: Is the age of Tory England and SNP Scotland finally slipping away? In Scotland the Scottish National Party suspected they were in for a drubbing in the…
Battling for Australia’s hearts and minds
A referendum will take place next week on whether or not to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a formal place in their Constitution, more than 200 years after Britain’s ‘First Fleet’…
Brexit: when rhetoric finally faced facts
Trade experts warned from the outset that Boris Johnson was putting his ambition ahead of the reality of Britain’s ability to negotiate deals, writes Geoff Kitney. When Boris Johnson set out to…
Has Queen Elizabeth’s death made an Australian republic inevitable?
The prime minister says protocol requires him to declare allegiance to the new King. Australians are not happy, writes Geoff Kitney. There will be more than one controversial guest at today’s coronation…
Only a mug makes predictions in Scottish politics
Labour exults in Nicola Sturgeon’s departure, likewise the Tories. Labour has moved into second place according to the polls, but is still a distant second, Murray Ritchie writes. It was all very…
Australia stopped the boats but the UK may flounder
The BBC may have reinstated sports pundit Gary Lineker, but the debate on the United Kingdom government’s tough new refugee policy will go on and on, writes Geoff Kitney. In today’s democracies,…
Brexit puts paid to the ties that bind
Britain’s exit from the EU, the death of Queen Elizabeth and debate about Australia’s colonial history have led to growing calls for Australia to become a republic. When the Brexit bandwagon was…