Politics at Lunchtime

<p>The countries of the Post-Soviet Space (i.e. the fifteen former Soviet republics which together once made up the USSR) are faced with a number of common security problems, in relation to various

Democracy is much more than elections, politicians and the media. We are joined by the Sydney Alliance to hear about the bits of democracy we walk past every day in Sydney, without realising they are

<p>The UK government is in turmoil, with the unexpected resignation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The crisis is being blamed on Boris Johnson’s “brain” and Dominic Cummings (who also brilliantly

<p>In recent times several democratic governments have pursued whistleblowers in the name national security. Do politicians have contempt for the truth? Are Julian Assange and Edward Snowden cyber

Imagine if the prerequisites for a thriving democracy are the same as caring relationships? What does it mean if the central focus of our democracy is how we treat each other? If democracy is a skill,

Prof Brian Cox has indicated that the next phase of the space race will be three-fold: military dominance, tourism & mineral extraction. But who wins? The USA has massive advantages of technology &

<p>The collapse of the former Soviet Union on December 25, 1991 has been described by Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation, as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth

<p>‘Civilizational realism’ is a term used by international relations scholars to describe a distinctive Russian foreign policy orientation that has been emerging over the last decade: Russia seeks