Publications

TJ Ryan Foundation Board members, Liz van Acker and Linda Colley, write in the Machinery of Government blog (12.12.18) about the decreasing numbers of female MPs

Michelle Grattan writes in The Conversation (3.12.18) about the federal Liberal Party adopting new rules to make it more difficult for a inner-party challenger to unseat

As part of a new series of articles headed, ‘The New Populism’, Cas Mudde argues in The Guardian (22.11.18) that the spread of the idea that

In the first instalment of a new series titled, ‘The Future Fix’, Fairfax economics journalist Jessica Irvine and colleagues write in the Brisbane Times (18.11.18) about

George Rennie writes in The Conversation (16.11.18) about the Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia’s claims that it wants to ‘simplify, not weaken’ gun control laws in

Latika Bourke and Bevan Shields report in the Brisbane Times (7.11.18) on former Labor leader Mark Latham’s surprising, but not unexpected, move to represent Pauline Hanson’s

Frank Bongiorno writes in The Conversation (29.10.18) that, despite intermittent calls to remove them, state governments provide important checks on federal power, and a number of

Michelle Grattan writes in The Conversation (20.10.18) about the dramatic result in the Wentworth federal by-election, suggesting that the Liberal Party’s trouncing will re-open fractures in

Felicity Caldwell reports in the Brisbane Times (17.10.18) on the passing of the Palaszczuk government’s Termination of Pregnancy Bill through state parliament, which decriminalises abortion in Queensland.

Judith Brett writes in The Conversation (19.10.18) that the federal government’s stubborn commitment to coal is pulling the government’s economic policy towards the sort of ‘state

Liam Elphick and colleagues write in The Conversation (10.10.18) about the release of details from the federal government’s Ruddock Review into religious protections and freedoms in

TJ Ryan Foundation Board member, Geoff Edwards, writes in The Mandarin (21.9.18) that our national governance is failing because the process for selecting political candidates and