As the Coalition chases One Nation into the culture wars, big tobacco returns to Canberra, Labor’s recognition of Palestine is hollow, and migration continues to be the convenient scapegoat.

Taxpayers spend about $13 billion a year supporting private health insurance, yet there is little evidence it relieves pressure on public hospitals or delivers fair value.

In the long term Chalmers, O’Neil and Albanese will want to own any improvement in intergenerational equity, so maybe it’s better to start now

The 2018 “reforms” were bad policy. The sooner they are unwound the better.

Smøla is a low treeless island off the northwest coast of Norway, and 68 wind turbines stand on it.

Bryan Dawe speaks to a senior figure from the Australian Labor Party DAWE: Thanks for joining me. CLARKE: Good to be here, Bryan. Comrade. Great conference. Great, great conference. DAWE: You’re pleas...

Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam both warned against surrendering Australian sovereignty to US military and intelligence interests, but AUKUS and the Albanese government’s foreign policy have deepened that dependence.

Outgoing Inspector-General Natalie Siegel-Brown warned senators last night that the nation's home care reforms are failing older Australians at every level, and that the damage is worse than her offic...

The anti-establishment movement gripping Australia could have been the Greens’ moment in the sun. Instead, they're failing to cut through.

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For more than two and a half years, Gaza’s children have been murdered in their thousands while Australia’s lickspittle political...

One man is motivated by self-justification, the other by public service.

Surging levels of renewable energy and better reliability from coal-fired generators are set to give consumers a break, with benchmark power prices to fall up to 10 per cent for consumers and more for...

He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.

Can you be as bad as Joe Hockey, who said poor people don’t drive, and suggested that the solution to the housing crisis was for young people to get a good job that pays money? Well, alas, the NSW Pre...

The best satirists do more than entertain. They influence public discourse and leave lasting marks on political life. 

The Weekly Brief: Your weekly guide to the issues shaping Australian politics this week.

David Pocock was struggling to find cut-through on the issue of gas taxes, but then a question about the beer excise sparked a social media war of words.