Guy Rundle

4 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Guy Rundle

On Monday morning this week, Peter Dutton, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, introduced his son Harry to the microphone. Dutton clearly hoped that Harry — chisel-jawed and conventionally handsome to an almost ridiculous degree — would boost his party’s shambolic election campaign. Harry told the journalists he was “saving like mad” for a deposit on an apartment in Australia’s absurdly overheated housing market.

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Guy Rundle

China is an authoritarian state, which appears bent on creating a system of steady totalitarian control lasting decades, if not longer. It is bent on consolidating the country that was fractured by colonialism and politics, with the eventual reincorporation of Taiwan and Hong Kong. There is no possibility that Tibet will re-emerge as a fully independent polity.

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Guy Rundle

July 21, 2020         It was Monday November 3, 1975, and on a practice track somewhere in Melbourne, champion horse Think Big was being taken for a light canter. It was the day before the Melbourne Cup, and the 1974 winner was widely tipped to get the double. Think Big she was a crowd favourite and the name was much in the air. Was it on the minds of the nation’s leaders that morning, as they descended on Melbourne for the race that stops a nation?

2 months ago | inkl.com | Daanyal Saeed |Bernard Keane |Charlie Lewis |Guy Rundle

Unlike a seat at the football, few politicians make a point of playing up their love of local arts and culture. And until last Thursday, the career of artist Khaled Sabsabi wouldn’t have piqued the interest of many politicians or journalists outside western Sydney.  But politics and art are not easily separated, as Sabsabi must know.

Oct 16, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Guy Rundle

With three weeks until polling day, Kamala Harris has not sealed the deal. That can be said with certainty. Her candidacy wiped out the Democrat voter deficit arising from Joe Biden’s infirmity. She has taken the fight to Donald Trump, to some degree. She has brought the polling to a neck-and-neck state. But that’s all she has managed to do. And that, really, is a failure. It may well be an inevitable failure, given the nature of contemporary politics, but a failure it is.