Patriots and progressives have been suspicious of each other in Australia, ever since the Howard years. It’s time for the Left to realise that anti-patriotism alienates potential voters, writes Tim Soutphommasane.
Left wing
Costello: it’s not my ABC
The ABC is “hostile territory” for conservatives, with predictable interviewers always coming from a Labor/Green perspective and little change anticipated by ABC management, writes Liberal MP Peter Costello.
Where are all the leftie journos?
Everyone loves to trash the media as being full of left leaning journalists, but it’s the conservative right wing commentators that get more publicity. Small ‘l’ liberal is not the same as left wing, writes Lindsay Foyle.
What was Left after the global economic collapse?
The GFC should have been the greatest moment ever for the Left. But why hasn’t a viable political and economic alternative emerged? Did the Left miss their big chance?
Podcast: Journalism in crisis
Beyond Right and Left author David McKnight — and admitted pessimist — talks about the declining respect for newspapers and journalism in society.
Professor Google and those left wing academics
How can undergraduates with little exposure to a discipline or subject be expected to criticise their lecturer or tutor before gaining an understanding of the discipline or subject itself, asks Irfan Yusuf.
