Guy Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
The '70s produced numerous masterpieces, but perhaps none as singular or confounding as 'Isn't it Time'.
The Ramsay Centre seems to be all but dead in the public university, but was it ever more than political posturing?
Bill Shorten's much derided taxation back flip was really just a test of Labor's nebulous faction politics.
With socialists filling Democrat tickets and a (comparatively) progressive Supreme Court judge standing down, it's all swings and roundabouts for America's beleaguered progressives.
If put to referendum, an Indigenous Voice to Parliament will rely on the vote of the millions of Australians supportive of notions of recognition and treaty. First they need to make sense of it.
In the latest Ramsay Centre twist, ANU vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt and chancellor Gareth Evans have revealed the real nature of the Ramsay Foundation’s commitment to free speech and inquiry.
Since the rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon, the public debate about male violence has become chaotic and counter-productive.
The fiction of privatised competition was simply so diverse functions could be handed over to cartelised oligopolies.
This was a hallowed act of obeisance, cinema vanishing into itself: the Astor, a vast dome of faded theatrical glory was showing a David Lynch classic.
The Voice to Parliament, part three of the Uluru deal, seems like it can only end with the Senate and House throwing Indigenous people under the bus.
