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Jack WaterfordThe Sydney Morning Herald |
The Albanese government may be adept at negotiating with insiders, but its failure to explain decisions and engage voters is deepening public...
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Soon after I joined The Canberra Times 54 years ago, as a copyboy, I was taken aside by a senior journalist and allocated a discreet, clandestine and...
Religious conservatives have long sought influence within the ACT Liberal Party. Their efforts under Zed Seselja offer a cautionary tale about...
Religious conservatives have long sought influence within the ACT Liberal Party. Their efforts under Zed Seselja offer a cautionary tale about...
I have been waiting for some time for someone to notice the remarkable congruence between allegations of a cult of Opus Dei zealots seeking to take...
If Anthony Albanese wants Labor to remain in power for the long haul, it will need to offer more than competent management, says Jack Waterford....
Anthony Albanese is not busy stealing Liberal Party policies and shifting his party to the right simply because he admires Tory politics and...
Making housing affordable for younger Australians will require lower land prices and a major increase in housing supply. But the rush to build risks...
It seems to be dawning on some voters and political players that if housing is to be made affordable for young Australians, the price of land must...
Australia needs a migration policy based on workforce reality, not populist fear, racial resentment or a political race to match One Nation’s...
It is too much to hope and expect that an Albanese Labor government would implement a liberal immigration and refugee policy simply because it was the...
A new round of royal commissions and public inquiries may expose not only corruption and mismanagement, but the deeper erosion of public trust in...
Australia may be moving into chickens-coming-home-to-roost time. It is now royal commission and public inquiry season. Those in reasonable prospect...
Labor’s cautious path to a third term may be electorally defensible, but avoiding a fundamental argument with Pauline Hanson leaves both Hansonism...
Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party have set their course for facing the next federal election. It's not a bold strategy, but it's a...
Fred Hollows’ trachoma program exposed appalling Aboriginal health conditions and helped drive the growth of community-controlled health services....
In 1975, an Aboriginal friend in the federal Health Department, Gordon Briscoe, invited me to ask his department questions about the prevalence of...
The royal commission must confront hatred and violence against Jewish Australians while preserving free speech, political criticism of Israel and...
The royal commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion has heard convincing evidence that Jewish Australians have encountered increasing levels...
The coming NSW ICAC hearings are only part of a deeper problem. Entrenched factional power, gambling interests and political cowardice are corroding...
I cannot pretend to be terribly surprised or shocked to learn that the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption is to soon hold public hearings...
It’s too late for Starmer, but Albanese has two years to take a bold stance against Hansonism and explain to the public his own plan. The fall of...
The fall of Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister of the British Labour government is full of meaning for his friend Anthony Albanese as Australian prime...
Australia’s support for the US-Israeli war on Iran has again exposed the reflexive subservience of Australian foreign policy, tying the country to...
It may be a while before the full dimension of the military defeat of the United States and Israel by Iran can be assessed. Subscribe now for...
It may be a while before the full dimension of the military defeat of the United States and Israel by Iran can be assessed. Subscribe now for...
Pauline Hanson’s rise cannot be countered by facts, logic or clever campaign tactics alone, because One Nation’s appeal is rooted in disgust,...
Pauline Hanson is a handful for all the politicians opposing her, and not one of her rival political leaders has her measure in debate. Particularly...
Australia’s crisis of trust is being deepened by opaque lobbying, revolving-door appointments, weak accountability and an insider culture that gives...
The guardians of the public accounts, particularly in the public service, have never manifested much intense interest in white collar crime of the...
A party of community independents funded on the same basis as the other parties might be just what we need to deliver good government and a vibrant...
Teals, community independents, and, probably Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party may be able to walk around Labor's manipulation of the...
Of all the things which most frustrate about the Albanese government is the tendency of ministers to fall into a form of paralysis the moment it meets...
Of all the things which most frustrate the Albanese government is the tendency of ministers to fall into a form of paralysis the moment it meets any...
Of all the things which most frustrate the Albanese government is the tendency of ministers to fall into a form of paralysis the moment it meets any...
The 2026 Budget marks a rare moment where Labor showed some willingness to confront inequality and tax reform, but the government still shrank from...
I have so often criticised the Albanese government for timidity and gutlessness that I feel honour-bound to admit that neither of these words are at...
I have so often criticised the Albanese government for timidity and gutlessness that I feel honour-bound to admit that neither of these words are at...
The principle that those who are best off should be paying more tax as a proportion than those of more modest income is a fundamental one. That...
The federal budget we are soon to see will be dedicated in part to the idea of generational equity, the idea that older Australians own too much at...
Here's hoping that the royal commission into the Bondi massacre of last December does not turn into partisan point-scoring, least of all over...
New National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms pose a novel test of character for the Albanese government. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
New National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms pose a novel test of character for the Albanese government. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
US President Donald Trump is letting it be known that he is considering pulling the United States from NATO, and perhaps some of America's...
US President Donald Trump is letting it be known that he is considering pulling the United States from NATO, and perhaps some of America's...
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