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Vote counting - why so long?
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
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.
As a protest, it was pretty lame, if loud and, for the demonstrators, satisfyingly disruptive.
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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One Nation is a very democratic party. So democratic, indeed, that its parliamentarians apparently don't discuss with each other what the party's stance might be on legislation, and then publicly disagree..
A plague on both your houses, Labor and Liberal, is the evidence of today's Farirfax Ipsos poll for the two main parties. Both have suffered a slump in their primary vote.
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Forget post-truth. This is the era of post-hope, where the instinct of voters is to give the finger to an established order.
There has perhaps never been a more obvious, more protracted and more destructive public policy failure in the history of democracy than the war on drugs.
How many votes do you reckon Kevin Rudd lost when it was revealed he had gone into a seedy New York strip club known as Scores in a drunken manhattan bar crawl? Or what about Donald J Trump? How many do you imagine he lost from the notorious bus tape where he was recorded boasting of preying on and sexually assaulting women?
If the prime minister and his government are to properly revive their fortunes in 2017 they need to become a whole lot better.
If he did what has been alleged, he ought to go.
Peter Dutton found himself in unfamiliar territory this week, cast as the victim of the "tricky language" of Bill Shorten.
Voters now understand that the 'real' Turnbull will never emerge.
Peter Costello delivered the last federal budget surplus on May 8, 2007.
We don't have a budget deficit problem; we just have a spineless politician problem.
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My father was a great believer in Australian stories.
The Americans have elected Donald Trump and barring unforeseen circumstances they'll have him for the next four years.
We charge individuals with crimes, not ethnic communities. There is an important reason why.
"I am fed up with people... calling me a racist when they cannot find one thing that I have said that is racist."
A handful of wins towards the end of the year have rescued the Turnbull government from the near certainty of a difficult summer, but progress must be maintained if the government is to recover its balance and make something of 2017.
With one speech Labor MP Emma Husar has shone a spotlight on the often hidden crime of domestic violence. This is her full speech.
Never accept dietary advice from the Nationals.
The Senate cross bench remains in the limelight as the parliamentary year draws to a close.
Any advice sugar-loving Barnaby Joyce might have on public health should be taken seriously. The man's a living miracle.
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The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.