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Laura Tingle

Laura Tingle

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Wong and Dutton leave Arabic and Islamic Australians feeling abandoned

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.

12.04.2024 9

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Australia must uphold international law, starting with Israel

We have been too quick to make excuses for Israel, and too slow to push the first principle of adherence to the law.

05.04.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Dutton’s Dunkley plan is crime and utes, not cost of living

The opposition wants to talk about everything except the hip-pocket pain that voters are most exercised about.

01.03.2024 9

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

How to win the political argument for good policy

An economic problem, pressure on voters, and a government willing to step up. This is when change happens.

16.02.2024 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Media theatrics over stage three cuts obscure a good policy choice

Voters were quicker to welcome a decision that benefited millions than journalists who were transfixed by a political horse race.

09.02.2024 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Like it or not, the Middle East runs through our politics

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...

19.01.2024 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Albanese’s challenge is to reset the national conversation

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...

21.12.2023 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

The stage three tax cuts exist in a different world from 2019

As bracket creep starts to bite harder, the Albanese government might want to start rethinking where its tax cut focus should be.

15.12.2023 10

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

“It is vital for us not to look away”: Louise Adler on the place of politics in the arts

“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...

12.12.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Laura Tingle

What happens to the kids the NDIS can’t help any more?

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.

08.12.2023 5

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Political debate in Australia is at a dangerous tipping point

In the arts and now politics, claims about the other side are turning to reductionism and wild overreach.

01.12.2023 2

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

The government’s not in control and voters are not listening

Chris Bowen’s energy changes show the government still has fresh ideas on things that will affect voters. But will they notice?

24.11.2023 2

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

This was a dark day for the way laws are made in Australia

The brutality of Peter Dutton’s populist politics on Wednesday conceals the risks that the government has taken in the rush to legislate.

17.11.2023 8

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Time for a treasurer with ideas to match his ambition

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...

10.11.2023 4

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Bipartisanship comes to grief on the Middle East

Conflating immigration with terrorism is just a quick way of importing the tensions of the Middle East into Australia.

27.10.2023 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Amid Middle East war and Voice defeat, truth is first casualty

Global tensions frequently drive domestic resentments that are dangerously ripe for political division.

20.10.2023 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Depressed by the Voice debate? No wonder

This referendum is set to become another ugly chapter in Australian history, thanks to our politicians’ hypocrisy and opportunism.

06.10.2023 2

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

Only a radical aviation policy overhaul can fix Qantas

Like banking before it, the privatised Qantas has been allowed to run out of control. The same regulatory rethink is needed.

08.09.2023 3

Financial Review

Laura Tingle

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