Kamala Harris has reinvigorated the Democratic ticket and inspired the voters they need most – women, African-Americans and youth. But it’s not all smooth sailing.
With exit polls predicting a landslide win, new PM Keir Starmer’s dull but steady approach seems to have paid off, but what does it mean for UK politics, and the rest of the world?
While a UK Labour government would undoubtedly pursue closer alignment with the European Union, there are strategic and ideological reasons that will keep the UK engaged in the Indo-Pacific region.
Liars and fake news merchants are profiting from misinformation and disinformation in Indonesia. Can it be fixed?
It might sound like difficult terrain, but ideas of nationhood can be progressive as well as regressive, and could help bind Australians ahead of the Voice referendum.
The new premier has a great deal of experience in politics, but inherits the premiership with the state facing a series of major economic problems.
We need to move beyond whether cancel culture is good or bad, and understand in more nuanced terms what it means, especially given the political weaponising of it.
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.
Love him or hate him – and there are plenty in each camp – Daniel Andrews has become one of the most significant state premiers in modern history. This month, he may win yet another term.
Rishi Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post, but he faces a host of problems at home – as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
In the time warp that’s the current state of British politics, another prime minister has gone, but the same party, bereft of ideas, is still in office, clinging to power for its own sake.
The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Liz Truss has defeated Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister – but her victory makes the Conservatives much more likely to lose the next election.
The imminent transition from Elizabeth II to Charles III across the Commonwealth brings with it important political considerations, not least of which is: Should Australia reconsider the place of the monarchy in its own political system?
When internet users take justice into their own hands, problems arise. On a new episode of Monash University's 'What Happens Next?' podcast, Dr Susan Carland and experts guests discuss the dark side of digital vigilantism, and answer the question: Does it really work?
The bill exposes the culture war within Australia’s biggest religious groups, and runs into constitutional problems.
For all the public anger over the “Partygate’ scandal, Johnson’s weakened position owes much to the aftershocks of Brexit.
For decades, climate change misinformation has poisoned public discourse, but there are strategies to combat it.
There was no real winner in the chaotic first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden – least of all the American public.
As the US election nears, the political divide has widened – and so have the cracks in the President's bid for a second term.
We hear from Ali Alizadeh, a literary critic, poet and writer on the philosophy of art, who sees the biggest threat to art as the growing need for it to have function.
Amid enforced online learning, talk of teachers' 'digital understanding' shouldn’t be taken to refer only to their knowledge of the technological aspects.
As Boris Johnson's tactics cause deep rifts within the Conservative Party, the UK faces a Brexit of radical conservatism – and plenty of risks.
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