Dominic Kelly is an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University, and the author of Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia.
Books & arts
The entertaining insurgent
Dominic Kelly
10 November 2025
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
National affairs
John Stone, political activist
Dominic Kelly
22 July 2025
The former Treasury head was revealed to be an arch-reactionary in his long second career
Books & arts
Always within striking distance of losing
Dominic Kelly
6 April 2020
Books | The latest analysis of Labor’s defeat last May relies on all the wrong people
Books & arts
Sympathy for the devils
Dominic Kelly
26 July 2019
Books | Why does Niki Savva empathise with some of Australia’s least attractive politicians?
Books & arts
The tech god that failed
Dominic Kelly
7 June 2019
Books | Something’s amiss, but has communications strategist Peter Lewis nailed it?
Essays & reportage
Like Uber, but for politics
Dominic Kelly
9 August 2018
The false promise of digital democracy
National affairs
The H.R. Nicholls Society at 30: victim of its own success
Dominic Kelly
25 February 2016
After languishing for a decade, the radically deregulatory H.R. Nicholls Society is being revived. On its thirtieth anniversary, Dominic Kelly assessed its legacy for Inside Story
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