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Politicised Treasury bites own tail, covers for Turnbull
Suggested head: Politicised Treasury bites own tail, covers for Turnbull
Suggested head: Politicised Treasury bites own tail, covers for Turnbull
It's a given in sport that if you're not leading, you're losing. So who'd be Malcolm Turnbull right now?
Why does the generation that most benefited from public investment struggle to pass on the flame?
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The government spends more than $16 billion a year on IT and there are real questions about whether we get value for money.
Stephen Conroy is hardly the first elected public servant to augment his or her generous publicly-funded superannuation scheme like this. But for some reason, the Conroy example smells worse than others.
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The Treasury and the Reserve Bank are likely to 'look through' the reported numbers to focus on what's happening beneath them.
Everything seemed to close in on Julia Gillard in August 2012, when the country's first female prime minister faced a personal crisis over a past relationship and an AWU slush fund set up in the early 1990s.
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If Treasury wants to start acting more like economists than accountants, a good place to start would be to urge its political masters to seize on the opportunity presented by the school funding "compact" proposed by the Grattan Institute.
It is an office that carries more than the usual political risk faced by ministers.
Given his wild campaign statements, anything is possible when it comes to how Trump may change America's foreign policy
The government has ignored the national interest in favour of simply doing 'something' by year's end.
Economic racism against Indigenous Australians hasn't yet been consigned to history.
It was the year a freshly recycled Liberal leader, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, took his Coalition to an election and suffered a near fatal gutser. Herewith are some of the awards for achievements – both above and mostly below the call of political duty in 2016.
Men will have to step into traditionally female roles and claim them.
Most weekends I flee the big city and drive for hours through country districts, streaming through forests, across wide plains and alongside coastal scrub, soothing my way back to where I came from long ago.
It is an unfortunate reality that the march of security measures tends to move in one direction only.
Standing inside the hallowed walls of Australia's Parliament, one of the last action heroes, learnt something.
The Coalition's treatment of Gillian Triggs was unjustified, though she isn't blameless.
As a protest, it was pretty lame, if loud and, for the demonstrators, satisfyingly disruptive.
Australia is giving away 85.5 million tonnes of LNG a year for free. Well, to be sold by fossil fuel companies to Japan, Korea and China.
This shambles was perfectly predictable and it makes you wonder about the quality of smarts in the government.
It was a rare glimpse of the huge forces within the black hole of the current Senate, and a tutorial in the revived art of governing for results by Malcolm Turnbull.
Forget the quaint view that the Senate is a retirement home for fogeys.
The responsibility for integrity assurance now moves to the Prime Minister.
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The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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