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Laura Tingle

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Labor has left it too late for an early election this time

This year, the polls, the economy and the budget have all got worse for the government, and it has run out of room to go to voters before the end of...

20.12.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

It’s all in the timing: Xmas will take focus off nuclear pretty quick

The decision to release the costing on December 13 feels like the Coalition is once again playing voters for mugs.

13.12.2024 6

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

A lot of politics is driving the debate about antisemitism

It is one thing to take issue with the federal government’s position on a resolution to the UN. It is another to argue it is the cause of rising...

06.12.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Labor can’t legislate its way out of this battle with the RBA

There is growing disagreement over when unemployment is inflationary – and the RBA’s view helps explain why it is still so bearish on rate cuts.

29.11.2024 20

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Incumbency weighs on PM as Dutton piles on populist jabs

A government that does not want to upset people is finding itself outgunned by a man with simple and angry messages.

22.11.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Politicians don’t want migrants but they do need workers

Neither major party has managed immigration well. That has not stopped Peter Dutton from making an election issue out of it.

15.11.2024 9

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Laura Tingle

An era of calm, rational policymaking is fading away

The Trump revolution wants to tear down government that fails to deliver, but resentment is no solution either.

08.11.2024 9

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

How faraway conflicts are turned into divisions at home

Peter Dutton has accused the Albanese government of appeasement on the Middle East. But its positions reflect the same limitations felt in Washington.

04.10.2024 5

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Senate standoff shows politics and policy are a long way from perfect

The complexity of the housing challenge requires a level of cooperation between governments and politicians that feels a long way from the debate we...

20.09.2024 5

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Laura Tingle

It’s deja vu all over again when it comes to aged care and RBA reforms

This week’s agreement on aged care and the failure to agree on the RBA reprises arguments that took place decades ago.

13.09.2024 5

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Brawls over RBA and ASIO as election season starts

Three institutions – the central bank, the security service, and the national census – all became political footballs this week.

06.09.2024 6

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Greens, Coalition set the pace on a hapless government

Anthony Albanese’s Labor has been left as piggy-in-the-middle, trying to catch a ball being thrown by the opposition parties.

30.08.2024 6

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Laura Tingle

It’s time to civilise the inquisition of Senate estimates

Hearings that were meant to drill into policy detail have become a scattergun questioning of officials used to settle scores, or make cheap political...

23.08.2024 8

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Laura Tingle

PM’s Gaza refugees become Dutton’s Hamas terrorists

The opposition leader would be within his rights to ask for greater screening of refugees from a war zone. But that’s not what he is really saying.

17.08.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

What we don’t know about AUKUS

American government agencies keep revealing information about AUKUS that our own government will not.

09.08.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Election timing no longer swings on an elusive rate cut

The government is at the mercy of the Reserve Bank. But the central bank is also subject to forces beyond its control.

02.08.2024 7

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Why powerless workers are now a potent political force

The rise of hillbilly JD Vance and an Australian mega-union that is famous for all the wrong reasons have more in common than you might think.

19.07.2024 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Will the PM set up an election while the sun is still shining?

The legislative gridlock, a tricky economy and a Trump crisis all make a case for going to voters sooner rather than later.

12.07.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Nobody has come out of the Payman row with clean hands

Labor now wears the ire of Muslim communities, while Peter Dutton has crafted his messaging to squeeze in everything from Fatima Payman to grocery...

05.07.2024 5

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Government under the cosh, keen to claim a win with Assange

It’s still not clear how Australia managed to get the Americans to drop the process of law on a man they wanted for espionage.

28.06.2024 5

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Laura Tingle

Dutton’s climate poll surge evokes Fightback! saga

The headline numbers confirm Peter Dutton is setting the agenda, but to stay on top he will need to prove how his nuclear plan will ease the cost of...

21.06.2024 4

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Laura Tingle

Dutton’s climate war spells trouble for Labor, and all of us

The question is why the Coalition feels it can talk safely about doing less on climate change, two years after losing an election where perceived...

14.06.2024 5

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Giles scandal shows we disdain bureaucracies until we need services

Slashing the capabilities of government departments means that in the real world, dodgy characters escape scrutiny and genuine needs go unanswered.

31.05.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Someone will have to bite the bullet and raise taxes

It’s delusional to think that we can find large new areas to spend money on without the overall cost of government going up. But whoever raises...

24.05.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

The Coalition swings back to the immigration playbook

The irony is that Peter Dutton of all people should understand how complicated migration numbers really are.

17.05.2024 20

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

GST and gas show a government that’s still out of tune

A huge GST handout to WA and a report that gives a free pass to the state’s gas industry show how far parochial toadying in the west will go.

10.05.2024 30

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Laura Tingle

There is so much to be done on violence against women

Maintaining the momentum of this week’s announcements after decades of neglect is the biggest issue facing the anti-violence movement.

03.05.2024 20

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Laura Tingle

Surge of violence tests policy tolerance of social media

The Coalition in particular has to ask tricky questions of when enough is enough on social media platforms.

26.04.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Women know the true power of Justice Lee’s finding

It wasn’t just about one rape in Canberra. It is a pattern of male behaviour lamented by all politicians but which continues just the same.

19.04.2024 9

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Laura Tingle

Wong and Dutton leave Arabic and Islamic Australians feeling abandoned

Both major parties are wildly out of step with the views of people they must woo if they want to win the next federal election.

12.04.2024 9

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Laura Tingle

Australia must uphold international law, starting with Israel

We have been too quick to make excuses for Israel, and too slow to push the first principle of adherence to the law.

05.04.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Dutton’s Dunkley plan is crime and utes, not cost of living

The opposition wants to talk about everything except the hip-pocket pain that voters are most exercised about.

01.03.2024 40

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

How to win the political argument for good policy

An economic problem, pressure on voters, and a government willing to step up. This is when change happens.

16.02.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Media theatrics over stage three cuts obscure a good policy choice

Voters were quicker to welcome a decision that benefited millions than journalists who were transfixed by a political horse race.

09.02.2024 20

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Like it or not, the Middle East runs through our politics

The Dunkley by-election will be fought and lost on kitchen table issues. But it is a distant conflict that is piling pressure on political parties and...

19.01.2024 20

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Albanese’s challenge is to reset the national conversation

Forget the Christmas switch-off. Even if people have been watching or listening, it’s hard to believe they have heard much of the government’s...

21.12.2023 20

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

The stage three tax cuts exist in a different world from 2019

As bracket creep starts to bite harder, the Albanese government might want to start rethinking where its tax cut focus should be.

15.12.2023 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

“It is vital for us not to look away”: Louise Adler on the place of politics in the arts

“The world looked away during the World War, and Jews, 6 million of our people, were murdered in that looking away…  It is incumbent upon...

12.12.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Laura Tingle

What happens to the kids the NDIS can’t help any more?

The NDIS was overwhelmed by autism cases with nowhere else to go. Creating new services for them is one of the pointiest issues in the review.

08.12.2023 5

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

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