Since 1992, only two Liberal Party opposition leaders have won state elections in Victoria. Only Jeff Kennett scraped together a majority of seats in Victorian Parliament to be re-elected in …

If you want to really roast someone these days, social media offers ample opportunity to do so in a multitude of ways. If you want to do so without the …

I grew up in Southern Maine in the United States, spending most of my childhood outside in the pine forests during the 1980s and 1990s. As an adult, I now …

If current trends continue, fewer than 10 per cent of Australians will trust their politicians and political institutions by 2025, according to research conducted by Democracy 2025. Sadly, this research …

Ignatios, who goes among the populace under the soubriquet of Nate, is a proud Peloponnesian. His ancestors hail, he tells me, from one of the many villages in which, the …

It is that time of year when an icy wind blasts itself through Oakleigh, hurtling tumbleweeds down a desolate Eaton Mall. On the other side of Melbourne, a few lonely …

Ask yourself whether you have engaged fully with your artistic side. You may say yes, if you have found clarity in the meanings of music, whichever genre it may be, …

Now that much of the dust has settled from rugby league’s ‘Manly 7’, it is time to take a deep breath and contemplate how we as a contemporary multicultural, liberal …

We are three months in to a new federal Labor government and things seem to be going well. Poll numbers are good, legislation has been passed through the House of …

Minor parties and independents are winning seats in parliament through populist platitudes. Emotional triggers that offer hope with little attention to achievable solutions are their stock in trade. The teals’ …