Half the world will vote in 2024, but how many elections will be fair?
Mar 18, 2024 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This year has been widely proclaimed to be the year of elections, with national elections expected in at least 64 countries. This means that half of the worlds population will have the opportunity to change their...
Michael Gove’s extremism definition: four things about his announcement that make no sense
Mar 18, 2024 09:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The UK government has unveiled its new definition of extremism, but has raised more questions than it has answered in the process. Extremism is now defined as the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on...
Ukraine war: ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky
Mar 18, 2024 09:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It is ten years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea on March 18 2014. Subsequent efforts to firmly integrate the peninsula into the Russian Federation, however, have been far from the success story that the Kremlin often...
Levelling up is not working as promised – our research shows why
Mar 18, 2024 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The UK parliament has heard findings that levelling up arguably the Conservatives flagship policy agenda is beset by critical delays. In a report published on March 15, the public accounts committee, parliaments...
Attempts to ban TikTok reveal the hypocrisy of politicians already struggling to relate to voters
Mar 18, 2024 09:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Technology
TikTok has been under review due to national security concerns by the Canadian federal government since September 2023. This was reported the day after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill potentially...
What does Québec want? Politicians should heed what voters have repeatedly told them
Mar 18, 2024 09:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Questions about what Québec wants have shaped Canadian politics for decades. Its now been 30 years since Jacques Parizeau led the Parti Québécois to a majority victory in 1994. The threat of...
Mar 18, 2024 08:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Lech Blaine and Peter Dutton are both from Queensland, where the political culture is tough and masculine and politics south of the border always good for a spot of confected outrage. So Blaine, author of Quarterly...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well
Emissions impossible? How the transport sector can help make the 2050 net-zero goal a reality
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