Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese gave a speech, the Gough Whitlam Oration, where he laid out a future for the Labor Party. It almost goes without saying, that the Murdoch ruperters’…
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Predictably, Andrew Bolt is foaming at the mouth again. This time, it is about the demise of the single-use plastic bag from supermarkets. He hilariously started off his rant with:…
It was Alan Turning’s (1912-1954)1 birthday on June 23rd. Many people may not have heard of him, but owing to the cult of celebrity they will know of Benedict Cumberbatch,…
There is a quote often erroneously attributed to Benito Mussolini or Giovanni Gentile which states “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and…
When you google ‘Georgina Downer’, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Mayo, one of the first sites that comes up is ‘Georgina Downer, Author at IPA – The Voice…
Chris Berg appeared on Andrew Bolt’s low rating television show and stated that: ‘One of the reasons [the left] set up the ABC was to be a counter party to…
Economic rationalism and neoliberalism are dead in Australia. In an unexpected twist, the idea that markets are good and governments are bad was killed by the right wing of Australian politics, who simply couldn’t resist the desire to shovel public money onto their friends and tie their opponents up in red tape.
It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive of totalitarian regimes. Yet the most minimal exercise of common sense would suggest a different view: that propaganda is likely to play at least as important a part in democratic societies (where the existing distribution of power and privilege is vulnerable to quite limited changes in popular opinion) as in authoritarian societies (where it is not). It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
At a national level, the coordinating body of the Liberal Party is the Federal Council. It comprises 14 delegates from each state and the Australian Capital Territory. These include the…