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Michael de Percy

  • Political Scientist and Commentator, Freelance
Canberra
As seen in: ABC News (Australia), Substack, Sydney Morning Herald, The Conversation, ANU Reporter, Australian Financial Review, The Canberra Times, The Australian, Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), Crikey and
Covers:  Politics, Policy, International Relations, Transport, Telecommunications, Energy, Nuclear, Current Affairs
🇦🇺 Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent @SpectatorOz 🇦🇺 www.politicalscience.com.au/. youtube.com/@madepercy/. Opinions mine only.

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Michael de Percy’s Biography

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Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN @FlaneuPolitiq is the Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent for The Spectator Australia. He is an Australian academic, political scientist, journalist, editor, and political commentator. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Canberra School of Government at the University of Canberra and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Federation University Australia. In 2022 de Percy was appointed to the Australian Research Council's College of Experts and serv…

Michael de Percy’s Journalist Portfolio

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Liberals' wheels fell off with the hate speech laws | The Spectator Australia

Liberals' wheels fell off with the hate speech laws | The Spectator Australia

If I were a betting man, my money would be on Angus Taylor taking over the Liberal leadership at the end of t…

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RBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light | The Spectator Australia

RBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light | The Spectator Australia

Interest rates are going up while the Treasurer is making jokes about the Nationals being a minor party. The …

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Liberals' last hurrah? | The Spectator Australia

Liberals' last hurrah? | The Spectator Australia

Can Angus Taylor pull off a leadership coup against Sussan Ley without the moderates scuttling the ship out o…

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Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups | The Spectator Australia

Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups | The Spectator Australia

When the Australian flag is burnt at Invasion Day rallies, taxpayers deserve reassurance that they are not fu…

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Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs | The Spectator Australia

Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs | The Spectator Australia

The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party's problems, but who is going to…

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Albo delivers 'dog's breakfast', claims antisemitism wasn't Labor's fault | The Spectator Austral...

Albo delivers 'dog's breakfast', claims antisemitism wasn't Labor's fault | The Spectator Austral...

Pauline Hanson won't be in the debate that will run late tonight because she is banned from the Senate for wa…

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Articles

You need to decolonise your mind

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By Michael de Percy
| The Spectator Australia Verified
It’s bin night. Our local council is so broke, we have no green bin collection. They could afford drag queen story time at our local library and they have an Aboriginal flag that is bigger than the Australian flag for Australia Day. But that’s another story. For the first time ever, our tiny landfill bin had some space left in it. I had to think quick to see what I could discard in this rare bit of space. Then it hit me. I have so many books they are becoming unmanageable.
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One Nation supporters are the underdogs

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By Michael de Percy
| Substack
Pauline Hanson in action in the Senate. None of them get it – not journalists, academics, big business, policymakers, or the major parties. One Nation supporters are Australia’s underdogs. They’re not Menzies’ forgotten people or Howard’s battlers. They’re not bound by ideology or class. Their BS meter has simply blown a fuse, and they’ve had enough. The term ‘Populism’ is often used to describe the likes of Trump, Farage, and Hanson.
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Vikki Campion’s warning: Mess with Barnaby and meet your match

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By Michael de Percy
| The Spectator Australia Verified
People have been bagging out Barnaby Joyce for rousing on his dog while doing an interview on an iPhone on his working farm. The interviewer, Sarah Ferguson of the billion-dollar-plus taxpayer-funded ABC, was in her well-staffed studio.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Academic

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Making it more widely available