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Commentary: Primaryland is here

I call our current political environment “Primaryland.” What happens in the primaries will determine our direction as a nation. The general election merely makes that direction official. This is why we all need to plan our trip to Primaryland in the 2022 election cycle. Primaryland is less fun than Disneyland…

Tribune News Service · Apr 29, 2022

Here's how disinformation could disrupt the Australian election

Disinformation and foreign interference constitute a grave threat to Western democracies, particularly during elections.

The Conversation · Apr 29, 2022

Clive Palmer Punching Bags Are Popping Up All Over Melb And Finally, Some Free Fkn Therapy

United Party Australia actually being useful for once.

Pedestrian.tv · Apr 29, 2022

Peter Dutton says Australia should prepare for war. So how likely is a military conflict with China?

We are fated, whether we like it or not, to live in interesting times, having entered, as one prominent observer puts it a “decade of living dangerously”.

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2022

Understanding Ukraine’s symbolic fight to return to Europe, as the EU marks 18 years since its 'big bang’ enlargement

With the weight of Russian military might bearing down on it, Ukraine applied to join the European Union (EU) on February 28. While the Russian invasion provided the immediate pretext, membership had been on the Ukrainian political agenda since the Orange Revolution of 2004–2005.

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2022

Myanmar’s woes

Silencing Ms. Suu Kyi will not help the junta tighten its control over a rebellious country

The Hindu · Apr 28, 2022

Top five worst things the Tories did this parliamentary term

THIS year alone, it became illegal to protest noisily in the UK, Boris Johnson cemented the Government’s authority over the supposedly independent…

The National (Scotland) · Apr 28, 2022

‘Dark day for democracy’ as Tories make ‘authoritarian' grab of Electoral Commission

THE Conservative party have been accused of making an “authoritarian power grab” of the Electoral Commission, after the government passed a new…

The National (Scotland) · Apr 28, 2022

Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy: Our democracy is not something to jerk off to

We’re facing the worst cost of living crisis in living memory and the government benches have reduced us to talking about parties and porn.

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2022

Why public trust in elections is being undermined by global disinformation campaigns

Public trust in elections is being targeted around the world by a series of disinformation campaigns from a range of international players. This is giving rise to an increasing lack of trust in how votes are counted.

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2022