Essays

18 June 2026 Politics · Environment · History · Animal Rights Peter Malinauskas Has Broken South Australia’s First Promise Alex Vickery-Howe drives a wedge into the North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment by raising the values of the past.
16 June 2026 Arts · History Whispers in the Wall: Confronting the Failures of a Colonial Past Alex Vickery-Howe unpacks the hidden stories inside an Adelaide artwork.
27 May 2026 Education · Technology Convenience vs. Critical Thinking: Australian Academia at a Crossroads Where Artificial Intelligence and Falling Standards Challenge the Classic Academic model
15 April 2026 Politics The Cycle can Break: President Trump’s Profiteering and a Cult in Decline ‘When will MAGA wake up?’
16 March 2026 Culture · Politics I Don’t Like It: Satire Has Changed Sides Alex Vickery-Howe fondly recalls when we were all the front-row audience of the Backdoor Man.
17 February 2026 Politics Flirting with Centrism: A Passionate Leftist Tempted to Swipe Right Alex Vickery-Howe gets politically bi-curious.
17 February 2026 Politics · Culture Don’t Let Terror Change Who We Are: Holding Our Humanity in a Polarised World Alex Vickery-Howe looks beyond winners, losers, and ‘sides’ to disrupt the binary illusion at the heart of public debate and political sledging.
21 December 2025 Politics · Culture Whose Truth is True? Political Ideology as the New Religion. As 2025 comes to an end, Alex Vickery-Howe reflects on the anxieties and grievances that have led to competing realities in a post-truth world.
18 June 2025 Politics Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the Accusation of a Paedophile Presidency If you knew someone was a paedophile, would you spend millions on their presidential campaign?
17 June 2025 Politics · History The Fascist Swindle: When ‘Victims’ Become Tyrants Alex Vickery-Howe explores the common thread tying the rise of American authoritarianism to the Nazis marching on Melbourne streets.
2 May 2025 Politics A Wonk’s Guide to Australian Politics
23 April 2025 Politics The Vibe Shift is Coming: Dutton Rides MAGA Wave as the PM Pitches to the Australian People Some time ago, when Peter Dutton was first made Leader of the Opposition in Australia, I expressed strong doubts. In 2022, the prospects of a Coalition leader swinging even further to the right, when the Teal independents had demonstrated that centre right voters not only believe in but care deeply
8 April 2025 Politics On the Nature of Evil and the Price of Compromise As Elon Musk launches his new America Party, we should all reflect on his concept of ‘evil’ and how hollow it sounds, writes Alex Vickery-Howe.
28 March 2025 Politics America Abandons the Free World As Trump attempts to humiliate his ally, writes Alex Vickery-Howe, JD Vance waits to play his hand.
19 February 2025 Culture · Politics The Hidden Generals of the Culture Wars: When Individualism is Lost and Collectivism Weaponised Alex Vickery-Howe won’t be signing up to your ‘community’ any time soon.
11 February 2025 Politics Nigel Wants Us to Play Nice Now: How the Lies of the Deceitful Right Trumped the Platitudes of the Clichéd Left Alex Vickery-Howe dissects the corpse of the Kamala-Walz campaign, confronts the empty mirage that is Nigel Farage, and considers how painful it will be to see history reset to 2016.