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Articles by Liam Flenady
The Queensland Election Points to Challenges for the Left
On October 26 this year, Queensland (QLD) voters took to the polls to elect a new state government. After nine years of Queensland Labor Party rule, and for only the second time since 1989, the center-right Liberal National Party (LNP) won. Labor’s vote sank 7 percent, losing the party fifteen seats while the LNP’s vote shot up 5.6 percent, resulting in a gain of sixteen seats.
The Brisbane Greens Are Building a Mass Party With Unashamedly Left-Wing Politics
Liam Flenady We won each of our three new lower house seats with slightly different campaign scales, tactics, and messaging. So it’s hard to come up with universal lessons to apply. Having said that, here are some lessons I’ve drawn from the experience. First, we put forward policies revolving around redistributing wealth and power away from big corporations and billionaires and toward everyday people. When we talked about it to people one-on-one, that program was immensely popular.
Austerity Is Prolonging the Pandemic
Over the last few weeks, Australians have lived through a governmental failure unprecedented in living memory. For hundreds of thousands, attempting to get tested for COVID or accessing the health system has exposed a remarkable degree of dysfunction. For most, it’s extremely stressful. For some, it’s life-threatening. As the rising caseloads overwhelms the public health system, there will be avoidable deaths and unnecessary pain.
Progressive Populism Has Transformed Australia Before - It Could Do It Again
In 2012, twenty-one past winners of the Blue Planet Prize — awarded for research that improves the global environment — released a landmark report.
The Success of the Australian Greens in Queensland Shows the Power of Organization
In recent years, “anti-political” sentiment has taken root in Queensland, perhaps more so than in any other part of Australia. Its most obvious symptoms are declining support for the major parties and distrust of politics. The long-term causes are structural: politics has been hollowed out as the membership of civil-society organizations — unions, church groups, etc. — steadily declined, depriving both Labor and the Liberal National Party (LNP) of their traditional social foundation.
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