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Laura TingleFinancial Review |
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.
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.
We have been too quick to make excuses for Israel, and too slow to push the first principle of adherence to the law.
The opposition wants to talk about everything except the hip-pocket pain that voters are most exercised about.
An economic problem, pressure on voters, and a government willing to step up. This is when change happens.
Voters were quicker to welcome a decision that benefited millions than journalists who were transfixed by a political horse race.
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...
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...
As bracket creep starts to bite harder, the Albanese government might want to start rethinking where its tax cut focus should be.
“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...
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.
In the arts and now politics, claims about the other side are turning to reductionism and wild overreach.
Chris Bowen’s energy changes show the government still has fresh ideas on things that will affect voters. But will they notice?
The brutality of Peter Dutton’s populist politics on Wednesday conceals the risks that the government has taken in the rush to legislate.
The rest of this government’s term will be taken up with the cost of living and a changing economy. It must think past cutting or increasing...
Conflating immigration with terrorism is just a quick way of importing the tensions of the Middle East into Australia.
Global tensions frequently drive domestic resentments that are dangerously ripe for political division.
This referendum is set to become another ugly chapter in Australian history, thanks to our politicians’ hypocrisy and opportunism.
Like banking before it, the privatised Qantas has been allowed to run out of control. The same regulatory rethink is needed.