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A Sense of Place Magazine

On interviewing the last surviving Anzac

By John Stapleton After decades in mainstream journalism, and having written literally thousands of stories, there aren’t too many things I haven’t written about. But there was one story about the world’s last survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell, that...

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New Politics

The continuing corrosion and corruption of the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party’s crisis is no longer temporary. After two consecutive federal election defeats and a collapse in its primary vote from 41 per cent in 2019 to recent polling lows of around 17 per cent, the party faces a deeper question: does it still possess a viable place in

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Scandals, factions and failure: The continuing collapse of the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party is no longer going through a short-term and cyclical downturn – it’s facing a continuing crisis of political identity, it’s lacking organisation skills which makes it more susceptible to extremist interest groups and, most importantly, its relevance is fading within the electorate. Despite losing two consecutive federal

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The politics of distraction and the ongoing decline of the media

Illustration: Josh Adams/Green Left.Labor is doing its best to imitate Pauline Hanson’s racist magic-wand politics, sending out the message that migration numbers will fall dramatically, without causing any pain at all, without damaging universities, without making skill shortages worse or weakening an economy that has been calibrated to sustain itself

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