The Coalition has just released its policy on respect for national symbols, competing with the populism of One Nation on dedication to the flag: theconversation.com/the-coalitio...
The Coalition wants to make flag burning a crime. It’s a revival of a decades-old battle
Flag politics and Australia Day debates are shaping up to be key themes in conservative political discourse in the months ahead.
theconversation.com
My piece on populism and the politics of the flag has just been published in Pearls & Irritations. It adds disrespect for national symbols to the list of populist grievances. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
Patriotism or politics – the fight over the flag
As populism rises, the Australian flag is being used as a political tool – defining patriotism and drawing lines around national identity.
johnmenadue.com
The Liberal Party's 2025 election review is interesting on its chaotic campaign management and serious neglect of key constituencies. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
How to lose an election: The 2025 Liberal Party election review
The leaked review shows how chaotic campaign management and policy announcements ignoring key demographics cost the Coalition the election.
johnmenadue.com
Marian Sawer In the run up to Australia Day the annual culture war is being waged against 'the elites trying to steal our day'. This time it has combined with outrage about Australian Research Council funding of an Indigenous project called Change the date? johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...
Just starting work on book for Edward Elgar: 'Understanding Feminist Governance'. Came across the article I did for The Loop about populist pushback and the risks of feminist success at the transnational level of governance, seems more relevant than ever: theloop.ecpr.eu/feminist-gov...
Feminist governance – here to stay, or gone tomorrow?
Since 1975, feminists have helped establish new international frameworks requiring national governments to promote gender equality. Success at this level, writes Marian Sawer, inadvertently sowed the ...
theloop.ecpr.eu
Kurt Sengul and I have just published our article on Australian populism, 'War on Woke': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The war on woke: continuity and change in Australian anti-elitist discourses
The ‘War on Woke’ is the latest form of populist anti-elitist discourse in Australia. It includes a number of elements already analysed 20 years ago such as the role of the Murdoch print media in c...
tandfonline.com
Terrific documentary by Bruce Scates for 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide – which the Australian War Memorial won't acknowledge despite ANZAC connections. Very good on Edith Glanville's refugee work: onehundredstories.anu.edu.au/stories/2025...
2025 - Anzac Day commemoration | One Hundred Stories -
This year, as countless thousands of refugees are uprooted from their homes and communities by armed conflict, we consider one of the greatest humanitarian movements to emerge from the Great War – an ...
onehundredstories.anu.edu.au
Wonderful to see the Gender-Responsive Budgeting Casebook just published by Monica Costa and Rhonda Sharp: www.unisa.edu.au/genderbudgets Great graphics on the return of GRB around Australia since 2016.
My piece on the 50 years since International Women's Year in @aunz.theconversation.com: I had an undisclosed personal interest in this story of the intersection of national and international agendas – in 1989 I wrote Australia's report on implementing the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies #auspol
1975 was declared International Women’s Year. 50 years on, the ‘revolution in our heads’ is still being fought
Australia was a trailblazer from the inception of International Women’s Year. But despite the gains, there are still forces pushing back against women’s empowerment.
theconversation.com
Lovely review of Maria and my book Toxic Parliaments in the Australian Journal of Politics and History: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Toxic Parliaments and What Can Be Done about Them. By Marian Sawer and Maria Maley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 135pp. Open access or Eur 49.99 (hb).
Click on the article title to read more.
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Feminist political science has had difficulty achieving its interdisciplinary ambitions. Is the rise of feminist institutionalism providing an answer? My latest publication for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social explores this question: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Feminist Institution Building: Political Science and Politics & Gender | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Feminist Institution Building: Political Science and Politics & Gender
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