The mantra ‘voters always get it right’ is repeated after every election by winners and losers. The decision of voters must be respected, blah, blah.

When I was a young journalist working in Sydney in the ‘80s and ‘90s, it was hard to miss Richard Jones. It seemed as if he was everywhere, as an animal activist; owner of a successful mail-order company; the publisher of Simply Living magazine and as a politician with the Democrats, and later as an Independent.

We look aghast at turmoil in America, UK and elsewhere and need to ask ourselves if this nightmare could come to Australia. For example, the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point is setting up in South Australia to target young voters.

The 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was last week. We were taught this atrocity was necessary to end the war and we believed it.

Anthony Albanese’s trip to China echoed visits by previous prime ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser.

Before the revolution in 1789, France was divided into three estates. The first estate, the clergy, held great sway over society and the power to levy a ten per cent tax – the tithe…

Has it ever been truer than it is today that,  ‘He who pays the piper, calls the tune’?

For decades, we have been engaged in the old cold war battle between capitalism and communism.

There may be nothing ‘creative’ about politics, but in retirement Greens MP Richard Jones has found his creative side. No longer pushing the Greens...