Tag: consensus
Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona
Image: The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1592). Public domain
Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel....
Grattan on Saturday: Can Albanese government wring consensus from union-business impasse over industrial relations?
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The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging...
Grattan on Saturday: Albanese is pursuing harmony but consensus has its limits
Image: James Brickwood/AAP
It was a sharp contrast. Similar disasters, very different politics.
Responding to the NSW and Queensland floods earlier this year, Scott Morrison couldn’t...
Elect me and I’ll govern like Bob Hawke: Albanese
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Anthony Albanese will declare he would govern on the Hawke model of consensus, in an economic speech today, that also directs a...
People who spread deepfakes think their lies reveal a deeper truth
Deepfakes make it harder for us to communicate truths to
one another and reach consensus on what is real. Screenshot
The recent viral “deepfake” video of...