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Laura Tingle

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Albanese’s on a highway to a bread-and-butter election

The prime minister’s announcement about the Bruce Highway wasn’t so much pork barrelling as trying to demonstrate that the government was actually...

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Financial Review

Laura Tingle

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...

20.12.2024 7

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 3

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 3

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 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 3

Financial Review

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 2

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 2

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...

20.09.2024 3

Financial Review

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 2

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 2

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 7

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 2

Financial Review

Laura Tingle