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In 2014, Noel Pearson delivered an eulogy for Gough Whitlam. Professor Tom Clark wrote about it for The Conversation and said “Pearson came to...
Politically, it’s a very bad time to be a baby boomer. It is not just that intergenerational equity has rightly become a priority for Labor. It’s...
Jennie Mackenzie spent her life helping children learn. As a former Play School director and early childhood educator, she believed in nurturing...
Over recent weeks, speculation has grown about US President Donald Trump’s erratic behaviour during the US-Israel war on Iran. While questioning...
The consumer watchdog’s Federal Court case against Woolworths over its “prices dropped” promotions is under way and will run into next week....
A couple of years ago I overheard a conversation between two well-known conservatives, who were speaking about a mutual acquaintance. I’m not going...
If you look only at the headlines, the world feels like it is falling apart. Wars, cost-of-living pressures, political polarisation. Yet the data...
In Peter Stahel’s recent The New Daily column The left brought a thesaurus to a knife fight, he writes about the competing “mental models” of...
A Lego-style Iranian military commander raps over a gangster beat: “Our inbox is flooded with Americans saying they don’t watch the news. They...
There are persistent rumours the federal government will make changes to the capital gains tax discount and possibly negative gearing – perhaps as...
Retirement has always been a deeply personal journey. But right now, the paths Australians are taking look more different than ever before. For...
Isn’t it peculiar that we get to this week in April and suddenly the impossible seems so inevitable that we start hearing about all the...
Those who watched the recent Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics probably placed Italy high on their travel bucket lists. Global events...
As coincidences go, a forum of leading economists discussing Australia’s immigration policy on the day Opposition Leader Angus Taylor delivered a...
By targeting Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump has exposed the limits of political power when confronted with a moral authority it cannot silence or absorb....
An effective opposition is good at policy. Last term and so far this term, the Coalition has been very poor at policy formulation. Remember Peter...
US President Donald Trump’s recent intemperate exchanges with the Pope, his depiction of himself as a Christ-like figure and his threat to wipe out...
Late on Wednesday, Victorian firefighters were called to a large fire at Viva Energy Group’s oil refinery in Corio, a suburb of Geelong. The blaze...
Angus Taylor’s latest attempt to grasp any sort of relevance has laid bare the raw politics at the heart of Australia’s conservative movement, but...
Across Western democracies, voters are abandoning consensus politics in favour of leaders willing to fight, name enemies and prosecute a cause – a...
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim may well have been in the minds of policymakers in Moscow...
Our food, our energy, our minerals and our water all come from beyond the city limits. The health of the bush shapes the prosperity of the capitals...
The world is on fire and still the Liberal Party has next to nothing. A policy without numbers, data, statistics, but “observations” on how the...
A new federal government advertising campaign is prompting Australians to reduce their fuel consumption during the current global oil crisis. It asks...
The Farrer byelection could reveal whether Coalition voters are really shifting towards One Nation or prefer independents, with implications for...
Anzac Day is commemorated on April 25 each year as a tribute to more than two million Australians who’ve served in war and peacekeeping operations....
Seeking to reassure the Australian public in his most recent Press Club address, Anthony Albanese borrowed from populism. “There is no security in...
The closure of one of the world’s major shipping routes, the Strait of Hormuz, has disrupted the global supply chain operations of many critical...
If you want a basic measure of the difference between Liberal leader Angus Taylor and Nationals leader Matt Canavan, compare these two reactions to US...
Few government failures have left scars as deep as Robodebt. An automated debt‐raising system, rolled out with breathtaking confidence and almost no...
Talk of a recession in Australia has picked up in recent weeks. Rising fuel prices, a sharp fall in consumer confidence and signs of softer spending...
President Donald Trump’s acceptance of a Pakistani proposal for a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran brings a sigh of relief to the...
There are just under 200 countries in the world and Australia is in the G20. From the department of foreign affairs own website the “G20 brings...
This column begins with a simple but striking observation – the world’s most powerful leaders are old. Donald Trump (79), Benjamin Netanyahu (76),...
Most economists and conservative media outlets are demanding the Albanese government spends no taxpayer funds in response to the energy crisis. They...
Using one lens, you could view the present contest between the Albanese government and the Taylor-Canavan Opposition as pragmatism versus populism. A...
US President Donald Trump has an incredibly childish obsession with outdoing his predecessors, who he constantly derides as stupid and corrupt. There...
There is a feeling in politics right now – widely shared among politicos and the otherwise engaged, and even if we struggle to name it – that we...
More than 1000 days after the release of the Murphy report, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally announced decisive action on tackling gambling...
Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...
For decades, the United States has tried to isolate Cuba. But the language coming out of Washington is getting even more direct. A tightening of the...
From October 1, Australians will no longer pay a fee for debit, prepaid and credit payments using eftpos, Mastercard and Visa cards. The Reserve Bank...
If you’d never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before, you probably have by now. Iran’s effective closure of the waterway, which usually carries...
Australia is drifting into the very future it has been warned about. On one hand we are one of the richest resource nations on earth, perfectly...
Australia’s peak council for community services, the Australian Council of Social Service, has joined the torrent of support that includes the...
With fuel prices staying high, the federal government has announced a halving of the fuel excise for three months. This will cost the federal budget...
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It is drafting marketing plans, writing code, preparing legal briefs and advising small business owners on...
Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now”...
In life, it is nice to have things you can count on, and every year at this time you can absolutely be guaranteed to hear business groups and their...
Crises “stress test” governments and countries. Memories remain vivid of Covid, which put immense pressures on the Australian economy, the...
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