In the National Interest

The Consultancy Conundrum

The Consultancy Conundrum is a compelling examination of the role consultancy firms have played in shaping our current crisis of confidence in public institutions

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The Post-Pandemic Child

Kim Cornish

In March 2020, schools and childcare centres across Australia were forced to close to control the spread of the recently arrived novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Families and carers suddenly had to…

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Gladys: A Leader’s Undoing

Paul Farrell

Gladys Berejiklian was one of Australia’s most popular premiers. Forging a path for New South Wales through the difficult early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she seemed unstoppable. But it…

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Courting Power

Isabelle Reinecke

Courts aren’t just there to settle divorces, sentence law-breakers and resolve corporate disputes. A healthy legal system, one that ensures access, transparency and accountability, is fundamental to democracy.

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Time to Listen

Melissa Castan

In Time to Listen, Melissa Castan and Lynette Russell explore how the need for a Voice to Parliament has its roots in what anthropologist WEH Stanner in the late…

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21st-Century Virtues

Lucinda Holdforth

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest…

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Living with AI

Campbell Wilson

Technology described as artificial intelligence is becoming more pervasive, with AI algorithms transforming science and industry, along with our everyday lives. They can rapidly analyse and classify all manner of…

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Australia on the Brink

Ian Lowe

In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all…

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The Big Teal

Simon Holmes a Court

This is the story of how a team of inspired young tech-heads and older sages used their real and virtual-world experience to help a cluster of communities get the representation…

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Advancing Human Rights

Michael Mintrom

Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights should be everyone’s business, not…

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Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights

Inala Cooper

What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people?

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Now More than Ever: Australia’s ABC

David Anderson

Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been.

The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives…

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Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty: Our Problem with China & America

Carrillo Gantner

As ‘America’s shoeshine boy in the South Pacific’, Australia is accustomed to being told what to do. In the space of a mere five years, the subjugation of Australia’s national…

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Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific

Richard Marles

ALP Deputy Leader Richard Marles implores us to step up our support for and commit to building better relationships with our friends in the Pacific, assisting their development and securing…

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Who Dares Loses: Pariah Policies

Wayne Errington,Peter van Onselen

Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen explain the political constraints on policymakers and the ways in which they are changing.

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Blood Lust, Trust & Blame

Dr Samantha Crompvoets

In Blood Lust, Trust & Blame, sociologist Samantha Crompvoets tells the story of what went wrong in the ADF. It is a chronicle of the consequences of pursuing the truth…

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Rape Culture

Louise Newman

Women must not be represented as mentally unstable, untrustworthy or ruled by their hormones while their abusers take refuge in legalisms, obfuscations and the dark art of political calculus.

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Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy

Dr Richard Denniss

It is time to jettison the obsession with the ‘unfinished reform agenda’ of the 1990s, to consider the breadth and depth of the new challenges confronting Australia, and to chart…

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Population Shock

Abul Rizvi

While Australia’s population will continue to grow over the next forty years, we will age significantly. Economic growth will slow, government and household debt will rise, and inequality will accelerate…

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Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics

Jo Dyer

Burning Down the House tells the story of how our political system went awry. Debunking the notion that we’ve ever had a two-party system, it examines how Australia has now…

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Governing in the Age of the Internet

Paul Fletcher

Paul Fletcher outlines the key challenges the internet has posed for governments as they seek to preserve their sovereignty, protect their citizens from harm, and regulate neutrally between traditional and…

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System Failure: The Silencing of Rape Survivors

Michael Bradley

The legal system’s responses to rape were designed without survivors in mind, and they do not address, in any way, the questions that survivors ask or the needs they express…

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Easy Lies & Influence

Fiona McLeod

Fiona McLeod, a practising Senior Counsel and Chair of the Accountability Round Table, tells us what corruption can do, and why it’s imperative that we address it.

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Fortune’s Fool: Australia’s Choices

Satyajit Das

For Australians remotely concerned about their own future and their children’s, as well as the country’s, Fortune’s Fool is essential reading.

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Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment

John Lyons

In this extraordinary book, award-winning journalist John Lyons goes to the heart of how the media reports-or does not report-one of the biggest stories of our time: the conflict in…

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The Digital Revolution: A Survival Guide

Simon Wilkie

Professor Simon Wilkie argues that, to preserve our status as one of the most desirable economies to live in, we need a policy revolution that addresses not just universal basic…

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A Decade of Drift

Dr Martin Parkinson, AC PSM

As a senior public servant during six prime ministerships, Martin Parkinson had a front-row seat from which to watch the inability of successive governments to tackle climate change. This is…

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Leadership

Don Russell

Based on his experience working closely with a large number of ministers and their private offices, Don Russell reflects on politicians, the political process and the role of government, and…

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The Case for Courage

Kevin Rudd

For some time, Australia’s democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation’s major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It’s…

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Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics

Bill Bowtell

Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics.

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Challenging Politics

Scott Ryan

Longtime politician Scott Ryan argues that the way we determine issues, the way we practice politics, and what we expect from politicians and government, is in flux. To some, the…

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Our National Shame: Violence Against Women

Kate Fitz-Gibbon

In Our National Shame, Kate Fitz-Gibbon reminds us that violence against women is not a private issue that needs bespoke, case-by-case solutions. It is a community-wide problem that, to…

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Power & Consent

Rachel Doyle

In Power & Consent, Rachel Doyle, a practising Senior Counsel for over a decade, argues that we need to understand the power relationships at the heart of the modern…

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Enough is Enough

Kate Thwaites, Jenny Macklin

In Enough Is Enough, Kate Thwaites and Jenny Macklin call for actions to have consequences, for an end to a culture of political impunity, and to make sure that…

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Respect

Jill Hennessy

Victorian MP Jill Hennessey, in a passionate argument, exhorts us to reclaim the empathy that respect depends on.

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In the National Interest

The Consultancy Conundrum

The Post-Pandemic Child

Gladys: A Leader’s Undoing

Courting Power

Time to Listen

21st-Century Virtues

Living with AI

Australia on the Brink

The Big Teal

Advancing Human Rights

Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights

Now More than Ever: Australia’s ABC

Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty: Our Problem with China & America

Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific

Who Dares Loses: Pariah Policies

Blood Lust, Trust & Blame

Rape Culture

Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy

Population Shock

Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics

Governing in the Age of the Internet

System Failure: The Silencing of Rape Survivors

Easy Lies & Influence

Fortune’s Fool: Australia’s Choices

Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment

The Digital Revolution: A Survival Guide

A Decade of Drift

Leadership

The Case for Courage

Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics

Challenging Politics

Our National Shame: Violence Against Women

Power & Consent

Enough is Enough

Respect