Rob Hoffman teaches Politics and History at Swinburne University of Technology.
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      An unsuitable job for a human
    
    
      Rob Hoffman 
    
    
      20 January 2019    
    
      Kelly O’Dwyer’s resignation highlights the pressures on federal ministers — and the Liberals’ continuing malaise
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Has liberalism forgotten what it does best?
    
    
      Rob Hoffman 
    
    
      11 July 2017    
    
      Books | Edward Luce’s new book is just the beginning of an analysis of why liberal democracies are showing less capacity to respond to challenges
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Populism runs up against electoral reality
    
    
      Rob Hoffman 
    
    
      21 March 2017    
    
      Election results in Western Australia and Austria show how unpopular populist policies can be    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Wrong time, wrong diagnosis
    
    
      Rob Hoffman 
    
    
      10 February 2017    
    
      The prospects aren’t good for Cory Bernardi and the parties of the disaffected Australian right    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      The Greens’ long game
    
    
      Rob Hoffman 
    
    
      16 June 2016    
    
      Higgins looks out of reach this time, says Rob Hoffman, but the party is on the march in inner-urban electorates    
  
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