The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved
Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...
Changing Australia's flag the first step toward independence
Australia’s flag remains a colonial relic and changing it could be the first step toward true independence. read ...
Nigel Biggar: The narcissism of anti-colonialism
Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024). He ...
The massacre map's research into colonial-era violence has revealed its final grim toll
The project, led by the late Dr Lyndall Ryan of Newcastle University, tracked hundreds of massacres across the continent over ...
Canadian Mining Journal20h
Mining and the idea of Canada
For me, every January begins with another trip through the key events of Canadian history since 1867, courtesy of a course I ...
Daily Mail21d
The sun still hasn't set on the British Empire: Only a fifth of voters say UK's colonial past is a source of shame - and one-in-five want it back
Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...
Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...
CounterPunch11d
The Literature of Resistance
This year marks the quincentenary of the publication of First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of Ferdinand ...
The Times of Israel6d
The Twin Theory to ‘Settler Colonial Theory’
Again, these colonized people live there in the first place ... in SW Africa, or British power in India and so on. But even here, Israel is different. Not only was the colonial power in the ...