Welfare solutions looking for problems
Australia's targeted social-service payments are far from costly.
Jack Waterford is the former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times and writes a regular column
Australia's targeted social-service payments are far from costly.
When British officials cock up, at least they eventually discuss and acknowledge their errors.
Sam Dastyari's sacrifice should not have been made in vain.
Sam Dastyari is probably the best "retail" politician on the federal Labor side. But he's still a net liability to the party.
Neither Labor nor the Liberals seem much bothered about preventing corruption in the capital.
Nauru and Manus Island have served the Coalition well, right up to the election, but there are ominous signs that the music may stop leaving us without a seat.
To say that statements by Reserve Bank officials are usually delphic is a cliche, even among those who know very little either of Greek antiquities or of Brewer's dictionary of phrase and allusion.
Could anything be more dispiriting than being a law enforcement warrior in the war against drugs? Last year police and customs agents seized record amounts of "ice", or crystal methamphetamine, now clearly enemy No. 1 in the illicit drug game.
The commission, however searching, is destined to be an expensive distraction and waste of time.
Bill Shorten surprised his enemies as much as his friends with a federal election he almost won.
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