by Doug Hynd | Sep 5, 2024 | Commentary
* Jason Blakely, Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life (Agenda Publishing, 2024). IDEOLOGIES are not simply the crazed beliefs of your political foes. They are cultural traditions; they are world-making maps; they are liquid, narrative and ethically...
by Doug Hynd | Oct 19, 2023 | Commentary
THE Australian Constitution does not recognise or acknowledge the original peoples of the land in any way, shape, or form. It was written during a time in which the driving concern of political leaders of all persuasions was to establish a ‘white’...
by Doug Hynd | Apr 4, 2023 | Commentary
DURING RECENT ELECTIONS, whether in Australia, the US or the UK, very few political parties have offered a substantial policy platform, let alone a broader vision of what they want to achieve in power. Admittedly there are some differences in how this plays out across...
by Doug Hynd | Sep 11, 2022 | Commentary
THERE HAS BEEN a good deal of concern over the past decade about the vulnerability of democracies to populist and authoritarian movements. Both the US and the UK come to mind here. The results of the Australian federal election earlier this year offers a different...
by Doug Hynd | Aug 9, 2022 | Commentary
LAMENT BY CHRISTIANS in response to the emerging reality of post-Christendom in Australia has extended along a spectrum from doom laden invocations of the imminent arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, to a grouchy stoic muttering of “we’ll all be rooned.”...
