One hundred years ago today, MPs from what had been two separate parties, Free Traders and Protectionists, met together for the first time, and a a class-based party system was born.
Political class
Trashing Pauline Hanson was a class act
If sexism remains one of the great unmentionables in Australian politics, class is even more so, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Canberra’s shallow gene pool no mirror to the nation
Seventy per cent of Labor’s front bench are – allegedly – former union officials? Well, Parliament as a whole cannot be said to mirror the Australian population. That’s what the Parliamentary Library found in a research note last year, writes Christian Kerr.
