Associate Professor William Partlett

The failure to condemn the illegality of the Trump administration’s assault on Venezuela is also an assault on international law

The aborted Wagner group ‘mutiny’ grew out of an intensifying intra-elite feud in Russia – and it creates a growing problem for Vladimir Putin

Victorian voters rank public integrity as a key problem in the upcoming election, but how can integrity and public trust be restored?

The real cause of Russia’s invasion is the special position that Ukraine occupies in Russia’s post-imperial identity politics

The big problem with Victoria’s Pandemic Management Bill is too much power to government and far too little to parliament to balance things out

Russia has voted to change the country’s constitution. The amendments shore up Vladimir Putin’s power but also have serious implications for foreign policy

Inequality was woven into Australia’s original constitutional structures and continues today; until that changes, the system remains structurally stacked against Indigenous interests

The Australian Capital Territory’s new cannabis laws are at odds with Australia’s federal laws, but should the federal government stay out of it?

Proposed constitutional reforms significantly weakening the authority of the Russian president suggest Vladimir Putin is considering life as an ex-president - with some caveats