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Phillip CooreyFinancial Review |
The decision to delay reform of federal environmental laws underscores the stranglehold the resources states have on the next election.
Anthony Albanese is right to say the impact Australia can have on the behaviour of either side of the conflict is “limited”. But that has long...
Sam Mostyn is whip smart and is more than capable of using her role to bring attention to various causes as she sees them, in a non-confrontational...
One can only imagine the reaction if Labor was in opposition and had done the same thing.
The challenge is to transition to vehicles that do what their petrol and diesel counterparts can do and for the same price.
The climate change and energy minister should be cut some slack. He is in the minority attempting hard and unpopular reform, such as the new clean...
The world will know in November whether Donald Trump is back. If so, Kevin Rudd appointed US ambassador a year ago this month, may have his posting...
One senior LNP figure says Albanese’s focus on the Voice last year amid a youth crime wave and cost-of-living crisis damaged federal Labor in...
The zero-emissions power source adds up on some fronts, but there’s still a whiff of crazy about the whole push.
Timing for the next election will be about picking a sweet spot between things getting better and things getting worse.
Early impressions are important with new prime ministers and the gamble on the Voice may prove to be damaging, in a similar vein as Tony Abbott’s...
Whatever the government comes up with to shore up the WA nickel industry, it will be a sobering day when Australia’s golden goose needs a subsidy to...
Tania Lawrence and Michelle Ananda-Rajah are newcomers to parliament, but that can be an advantage because they haven’t had the idealism kicked out...
Jim Chalmers and Tony Burke have done their internal standing no harm this week by delivering for the true believers.
Tax cuts, falling inflation, higher wages and interest rates cuts are set to favour Labor leading into what could be an early election.
The prime minister gave copious reasons why Labor should honour the stage three tax cuts. Then he went and backflipped anyway.
Three-year terms mean that the government, after just 20 months in power, will start pulling down the new policy shutters, with the opposition...
Both sides have conveniently ignored external calamities in the battle for economic supremacy.
Voters want their prime minister to be of them, not like them. At the moment, they feel he is neither.
It’s not just the states that are sensing vulnerability. The opposition’s tone this week has been one of sheer irreverence.
Labor is whistling past the graveyard as it seeks to tie a bow around the parliamentary year.
Continuing to obfuscate and invent convention makes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese look as though he is ashamed of his actions.
It was Labor’s nightmare and Dutton’s fantasy to be once again fighting on immigration issues.
Despite the views expressed by some hawks, the prime minister was not kowtowing in China.
If the trip results in a resumption of annual talks and the end of coercive trade sanctions, while giving up little in return, that’s a pretty good...
Tricky international diplomacy is nothing compared with feral talkback radio at home.
Given the long and violent history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, views towards it are pre-formed, polarised and, in most cases, utterly intransigent.
The Albanese government knows if rates move again, as now seems inevitable, it’s going to get whacked, regardless of the cause.
As the prime minister cops flak on talkback radio for his heavy travel schedule, the government is sensitive about the optics of his imminent...
What are the Greens going to demand be spent when the fuel excise runs out? And do they not realise that just because a car is battery powered, it...
The referendum loss may not halt the march of progressive politics, but it certainly provides pause for thought.
The consequences of Saturday’s result will go far beyond shattering the hopes of Indigenous leaders.
Pumping up its national security bona fides is not in Labor’s DNA. It needs to be.
For years, Labor has been walking on eggshells when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The Liberal party has swung to the hard right in some states - leaving Labor with the advantage. And accountability has suffered.
The Victorian premier had a ruthless leadership style, which included crushing dissent and discrediting critics while buttressed by the unshakeable...
Embattled voters are marking down the government on all fronts, regardless of effort or performance.
Advocating nuclear power these days is about as passe as a politician admitting they once smoked pot.
The government would have more credibility had it just broken its promise altogether and had no inquiry.
The Yes case has been outplayed not by Peter Dutton but Aboriginal Liberal-Nationals senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who was not factored in as a...
Marcia Langton’s point about racism being behind some claims by No campaigners in the Voice referendum is defensible, but her comments were still...
Every first-term government since Whitlam has gone backwards at their next election. It’s a sobering statistic for a government with a three-seat...