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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Left and the Populist Slur
What exactly is populism? The term has become an omnibus one designating a wide range of social and political attitudes, usually of a conservative or anti-elitist disposition. It includes inter alia those who supported Brexit, small farmers across Europe reacting angrily to Europe’s latest environmental restrictions on greenhouse emissions, as well as political parties in Denmark, Sweden or Poland opposed to elevated levels of migration or those like Vox in Spain or Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland calling for an educational and political program that values traditional understandings and national sovereignty. There are significant differences between, on the one hand, politicians like Georgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban or the Swedish Democrats, and on the other hand the left-wing populism of Robert Fico in Slovakia and more overtly national conservative and Euro-sceptic parties like AfD or the True Finns. Why label them all populist? Is the term a useful one and, if so,…
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Aug 29 2024
17 mins
