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Phillip CooreyFinancial Review |
Peter Dutton has observed seven prime ministers in his 23-years in politics, but John Howard is clearly the greatest influence.
When the opposition leader has made a foray into policy detail, he’s found himself on the sticky paper.
We enter the Christmas break none the wiser whether the government will hand down another budget before going to the polls.
This week was not the first time the prime minister’s instincts have been called into question following an inability to get ahead of thorny issues.
If the Coalition’s plan for nuclear energy sounds too good to be true, it probably is, but it will be two and a half decades before we’ll know...
In Victoria, Jews live in a climate of fear because next to nothing has been done to stop the attacks against them.
Allegra Spender’s push to change the definition of small business complicates the Coalition’s attempts to pigeonhole the independents as lefties.
After three years of putting little emphasis on the private sector, Labor is now spruiking the value of a business-led recovery.
It hasn’t hurt for the prime minister to witness first hand the changing global forces, more so as countries preposition for Trump’s second...
As each month passes without noticeable improvement in the cost of living, it’s all starting to appear rather fraught for the government.
The government might not deliver another budget before the election, even though it says it will. The reason? Deficits as far as the eye can see.
Amid all the fluff, bile and nonsense of the US election campaign, the seminal question was ‘are you better off than you were four years ago?’,...
When it comes to inflation, we are at the point where spin is clashing with substance., writes Phillip Coorey.
Over the weekend we saw the emergence of a plan, or at least the latest plan, to try to shift the government out of its torpor.
In 2016 Donald Trump stormed into office on the back of a widespread voter cynicism and distrust. He is a coin toss away from doing so again.
Allowing the straight-talking Michele Bullock a press conference after every rates meeting has diluted the government’s power to control the...
Jacqui Lambie, Pauline Hanson and some independents have played a role in enabling the militant union.
As the federal election nears, the question is whether Labor in power across the entire mainland has become a problem for the Albanese government...