Remind the US of its best creation
Donald Trump's plan for zero-sum rivalries is the opposite of the open system which the US created after 1945.
We have to trump US tax game
A company tax cut would largely flow to workers – and a tax cut in the US means real pressure on us.
Our local populists
Labor and LNP fall over themselves aping Donald Trump
Uni reform job must be finished
Our present half-way house cannot stand
BCA succession must mean good policy
AFR16-leader-BCA
Shorten rides the populist horse
Mr Shorten uses the same tactics that Donald Trump excels at.
Opportunism in SA
Premier Mike Weatherill has been braver than his opponent has been
The social contract on migration
Australia manages its migrant intake from behind firm borders. In countries that have failed to do so, the politics are explosive.
Politicians have to defend an open economy
But we have to be better at helping the minority who do lose out from free trade and free movement of labour.
Labor finds its inner Donald Trump
Labor seems to think that counter-productive Trumpism will help hold the party together.
