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The story of ‘us’: there’s a great tale Labor could tell about how it would govern – it just needs to start telling it

Image: AAP/Lukas CochElection campaigns are exercises in storytelling. Yes, they are about images, but these are usually attached to words. The stories are not...

What if the 2022 federal election gives us a hung parliament, but those with the balance of power want Morrison gone?

Image: AAP/Lukas CochMost commentators on the coming federal election probably see a hung parliament and a minority government as one possible outcome. There is...

Tax cuts? COVID management? On the search for the Morrison government’s legacy (so far)

Image: Darren England/AAPIt is premature to be discussing the legacy of the Morrison government. While it is well behind in the polls, there is...

Farewell to 2021 in federal politics, the year of living in disappointment

Image: Wes MountainSome will recall it as 2021. For more, it will be Year 2 of COVID. Either way, it will have been a...

Right out there: how the pandemic has given rise to extreme views and fractured conservative politics

  Image: Wes Mountain/The ConversationGreat crises are a stimulus to right-wing political mobilisation. Famously, the Great Depression of the 1930s gave the Nazis their...

How the pandemic has brought out the worst — and the best — in Australians and their governments

  Picture: AAP/James RossFor many years, surveys indicated declining Australian trust in government. Not anymore.On the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, which measures average trust in...

With the government on the ropes, Anthony Albanese has a fighting chance

  Image: Wes Mountain/The ConversationSome promising polling for Labor in recent weeks has inevitably raised that perennial question for a party whose national triumphs since Federation...

In 1919, Anzac Day was commemorated despite the Spanish flu pandemic. In 2020, we will remember them again

Picture: AAP/Paul Miller Anzac Day 2020 will be a far cry from the Australian War Memorial’s dawn service of recent years. While dignified and solemn,...

Nuance and nostalgia: Labor’s election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke

The election review is proportionate in the blame it sends Bill Shorten’s way. David Crosling/AAP The media have been itching for a report that blamed...

Vale Bob Hawke, a giant of Australian political and industrial history

Former prime minister Bob Hawke has died, age 89. AAP/State Library of NSW/ If Bob Hawke had never become prime minister, he would still...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.