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US presidential elections are always about a choice for the future. Who do you want to lead the country? Who will best address your needs? But the US...
Back in 2009 (which seems an entirely different world at this point) then US president Barack Obama delivered the commencement address to the Notre...
A German child born in 2020 may spend 57 per cent of their lifetime wages paying for pensions, healthcare, aged care and unemployment benefits. At...
Polling points to a rapidly fragmenting electorate, with One Nation attracting unprecedented support and the major parties facing growing voter...
Almost 2.8 million of Australia’s lowest-paid workers will get a 4.75 per cent pay rise from July 1 this year, after the latest Fair Work Commission...
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and one of the world’s most powerful mining magnates, recently helped finance a deal to acquire a 10 per...
I remember vividly being eight years old. My father was sitting beside the small fountain in our garden at the front of our home in suburban Adelaide....
Pauline Hanson and her party One Nation have dominated headlines after their recent electoral successes in South Australia and Farrer. A new national...
Increasingly Australians feel that they cannot get ahead. That the economy is failing to work for them. If people don’t have a stake in our society,...
A democracy is only ever as strong as its institutions and people’s trust in it. And yet, just this month, we have had Jewish people denied leave to...
At the 2022 election, “integrity” was a big-deal issue. Then after winning government, Labor ticked off a promise when it set up the National...
Changing voting patterns are no longer a reaction to short-term events, they are a rebellion against inequality, says Kos Samaris. Our new Multilevel...
When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate will look...
Health Minister Mark Butler has told the ABC that the government will push ahead with its proposal to change private health insurance rebates for...
Families are warning Australia’s aged-care system is “a shambles,” with long waits for assessments and services leaving vulnerable elderly...
When I was in my 20s, I was between jobs after an illness and signed up for unemployment benefits. As part of my “obligation” to the state, I had...
National Reconciliation Week gets attention. But attention is not change. In workplaces and communities, we are busy planning morning teas, screening...
Renewables and energy storage were pitched as a way to drive down power prices. But the hidden costs of the clean energy transition mean lower prices...
Housing affordability is one of those phrases everyone uses but few people define. Politicians across parties agree that housing should be more...
A BBC Panorama investigation has revealed serious allegations of assault on Channel 4’s hit reality show, Married at First Sight. Three women who...
The continuing saga of the White House ballroom is yet another sign that everything Donald Trump touches turns to anything but gold. Even Republicans...
As the Coalition competes with One Nation for rural and regional seats at the next federal election, the covert racism within the National Party and...
My husband and I are both 65. I no longer work but he still wants to work until age 67, when we can both get the age pension. Our combined super is...
The trick at the heart of Angus Taylor’s budget reply is that it punishes a group that cannot vote. Strip the NDIS, Jobseeker, Youth Allowance and...
There was a marked shift in Australian media in the past week, after Pauline Hanson released One Nation’s new gas policy. The headlines were all...
The next federal election in 2028 looks set to be a battle of the tax plans. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has dropped hints Labor may deliver more tax cuts...
One way the Albanese government has recently tapped into social media audiences for its budgets is by inviting “influencers” to Canberra for the...
Diphtheria was once one of Australia’s most feared childhood infections, killing thousands of children before vaccines were available. Then for...
One of the more hilarious aspects of the federal budget is that conservative newspapers have discovered that young people exist. Not all young people,...
I recently watched Interview with the Vampire – the TV Show based on Anne Rice’s novels – and absolutely loved it. While the storytelling was...
There is a running theme among Anthony Albanese’s missteps. His latest, appearing in an interview on Hobart radio to dismiss calls for a royal...
There is a deeper discontent in Australian society than the version One Nation is currently exploiting. What we might call an egalitarian anger exists...
With this year’s budget, the Albanese government has delivered a suite of bold tax reforms aimed at improving Australia’s “intergenerational...
In her 1984 book Missile Envy , Helen Caldicott identified the Freudian motivations behind the impetus of ‘Cold War Warriors’ to build bigger...
In three credible post-budget polls, One Nation is up one to three points, with its victory at the May 9 Farrer byelection probably also contributing....
Hi, my wife and I are both 72 (73 early next year) and have super balances of $160,000 and $250,000 respectively. We pay ourselves $1000 a fortnight...
The Albanese government has broken an election promise. The Prime Minister ruled out changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax before the...
Last week’s budget showed AUKUS is getting bigger. The government is putting more money into the agencies, workforce and infrastructure needed for...
There has been a lot said about trust and honesty in politics in the days since Labor handed down its budget, but not a lot has had to do with...
Among the most controversial measures in Tuesday’s budget were the changes to negative gearing, family trusts and capital gains tax. They were a...
Being the land of a fair go has long been a source of Australian pride and identity. But in the past two decades, generous tax concessions have made...
Coles has been found to have misled its supermarket customers over discounts – and could now face hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties. In a...
As the Treasurer acknowledged on Budget night, “the world is throwing a lot at us”. Jim Chalmers is certainly right about that. As he said: “War...
Former MP Peta Murphy, a Labor hero to many, died in December 2023 from cancer that recurred shortly after the 2019 federal election. Despite this...
Let’s think through the role that superannuation plays in Australia. Super was introduced because a few smart folks realised in the 1980s that...
There has been a viral question racing around social media lately, which has become known as the “red/blue button dilemma”. The thought experiment...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his budget “ambitious in the face of adversity”. Speaking to reporters in the lockup on Tuesday night, he...
I have been writing about budgets for 12 years and for almost all that time the government has been claiming that it wants to do something about...
When One Nation won the Farrer byelection, it signalled a profound shift in support away from major parties, particularly the Liberals and Nationals....
Crafting a federal budget is never easy. Tonight’s budget is harder than most. The government faces irreconcilable pressures: Spend more to meet...
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