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Karen MiddletonThe Guardian |
At a fundraising event for Lifeline Canberra on Monday night, general manager Adam Miller opened with a brief and distressing reality check on the...
What story is this government is trying to tell, exactly? Rounding the bend to an election, its final parliamentary sitting fortnight for the year –...
When a political fighter leaves the arena, it’s often an enemy who confers the highest praise. As Bill Shorten farewelled the parliament just three...
Eight years ago, almost to the day, Japan’s then-prime minister Shinzo Abe flew to New York to become the first foreign leader to meet with US...
When politicians start talking about abortion law, it’s often more about the politics than the law. When this occurs in the heat of an election...
Man buys house. Big deal. That’s the end-of-week take among some in the upper quarters of the Labor party on the prime minister’s decision to buy...
There’s a lot of complicated details surrounding the allegations that the deputy prime minister’s chief of staff has levelled against her boss....
When he was elected Liberal leader after the 2022 election, Peter Dutton vowed he’d keep his party true to its values. Values were important to him....
Sometimes political leaders send up a test balloon on a policy idea to gauge public reaction. The news that Treasury officials have been working on...
It was nothing if not audacious. In a speech that avoided answering one of the biggest questions hanging over his policy to build nuclear reactors at...
It stung a few in the Albanese government this week that Hawke-Keating era union leader and Labor hero Bill Kelty had declared them “mired in...
There’s a clue to the double-edged nature of resources politics buried in the share-price red and green of the Australian Stock Exchange. Since...
There’s an empirical test for divisiveness. If something appeases one section of the community and enrages another, it would seem to fit the bill....
Australians understand fire. We know it as dangerous and destructive when it’s uncontrolled. We fear it, prepare for it and try to prevent it. Those...
There are reshuffles and there are reshuffles. The first kind of ministerial redesign occurs after an election. In that situation, the frontbench...
It’s hard to find anyone in the federal government who’s unhappy about the downfall of the construction division of the CFMEU. The airing of...
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Tenacious D has cancelled the rest of their Australian tour after one half of the American comedy rock duo made a...
The new political movement emanating from western Sydney is not a Muslim party. It’s not a registered party at all – not at the moment anyway –...
The idea that political parties are a broad church is under review. John Howard famously claimed the label for the Liberals. It was the plaster and...
Fatima Payman has resolved speculation about her status and split from the Labor Party. But it feels like the start of something, not the end....
Regardless of what Judge Ramona V Manglona decided about his plea deal in her Saipan courtroom on Wednesday, Julian Assange was going home. That’s...
When politicians talk about staying in Paris, some people think of climate change and the international pact to save the planet from a diabolical...
During the 2007 federal election campaign, Labor ran a TV scare ad in Queensland about the then prime minister’s plan to introduce nuclear power....
When the inevitable questions came about the political calculations in his budget, Jim Chalmers was ready. “One of the things that I have found...
One week, two leaders’ speeches and suddenly the nature of the next election contest is becoming clear. One speech leaned on blistering rhetoric....