The Coalition is not going to win an election with this free speech thing, but they could sure as hell lose one.
We shall avoid the N-word, but it was the "liberal centre" that drove a quite reasonable populace into the arms of Donald Trump.
What on earth happens now?
Leaving people behind is bad for them and the whole community. If we allow that to continue, the Trumps, Farages and Hansons of this world will prosper with their bigotry and phony solutions, writes former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet John Menadue.
Let’s look briefly at the primary causes named for Clinton's defeat, and see if we can’t agree that the ascension of Donald Trump to President has multiple causes.
For years we've heard about debt and deficits from the right. How will it react to a Trump spending plan? With consistency and principle -- or with arrant hypocrisy, like in Australia, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane wonder.
We may need need the collective security of a rules-based Asian international order, writes former Australian ambassador to China Stephen Fitzgerald.
Australia -- and the world -- is sliding back into protectionism, and it will impoverish us all.
No one knew what Hitler would do in 1933, just as no one knows now what Donald Trump will do. The unimaginable has already happened, and you cannot possibly imagine what will come next.
The Democratic Party has a lot of soul searching to do, and it won't get there by blaming the working class.
