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This is an edited extract from Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno, La Trobe University Press, 2022.

A new government hopes to transform Australia’s reputation into a climate leader at COP27. But there’s a lot of damage to unpick.

Almost every child in the Northern Territory’s youth jails is Indigenous, and as WA Liberals implode, Victoria’s Coalition is sticking to its pledge to spend $25.7 billion on 222 announced promises as it heads towards the November 26 state election. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the…

The website of the America First Secretary of State Coalition (“America First SOS”) doesn’t include the word “democracy” anywhere. It goes hard on “integrity”, mentioning “voter” and “election” integrity four times in about 800 words. But the Coalition isn’t interested in democracy.