Australian Futures Project
Three things to keep from the COVID-19 response ...

The Prime Minister’s call for a ceasefire on industrial relations and two respected former Premiers’ acknowledgement of the benefits of State cooperation could be harbingers of a new, and better, way of making Australia’s future.

But that is far from certain.

Three things to keep from the COVID-19 response to improve how Australia makes its future: cooperation, expertise, and compassion

Branch-Stacking

Sports Rorts and Branch-Stacking are just the tip – we need an ACCC-style body to address anticompetitive, deceptive, and misleading conduct in politics

Sports Rorts and Branch-Stacking are just the tip – we need an ACCC-style body to address anticompetitive, deceptive, and misleading conduct in politics

Despite the rebranding of COAG as National Cabinet and an almost-universal exhaustion with hyper-partisanship and the culture wars, the unusual period of cooperative politics and federalism in response to COVID-19 has been short-lived. Its brief moment of glory has been bookended by revelations of subverting the democratic system, first by the Coalition and now by the ALP.