Fortress Parliament: our elected representatives won. We are no longer above them
Aldo Giurgola would have said these changes rip out the building's heart.
Trump declares F-35 costs 'out of control', sending stock tumbling
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Voller's dramatic evidence vindicates PM's strong, snap decision
To those who say this is about things done in the past, the message is that it is about what was happening right now.
Trump rejects CIA advice on Russian hacking
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Politicised Treasury bites own tail, covers for Turnbull
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen is right: One of the Abbott-Turnbull government's various acts of economic vandalism is its politicisation of the once-proud federal Treasury.
The climate is right to 'do something'
It's a given in sport that if you're not leading, you're losing. So who'd be Malcolm Turnbull right now?
Coalition can't convert its tries
Why does the generation that most benefited from public investment struggle to pass on the flame?
Colleagues dump on Frydenberg but Turnbull comes out most damaged
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APS lacks the right staff
The government spends more than $16 billion a year on IT and there are real questions about whether we get value for money.
There is nothing illegal about Conroy's new job - but it smells bad
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.
Trump says it's a 'tremendous honour' to be Time's Person of the Year
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Recession? We're not even close
The Treasury and the Reserve Bank are likely to 'look through' the reported numbers to focus on what's happening beneath them.
Courage goes AWOL on climate policy
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.
Malcolm Turnbull crumbles and rules out carbon price
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Donald Trump names man he once ridiculed to key post
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Malcolm Turnbull considering new carbon price
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Education efficiency should start with Grattan compromise
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.
George of the political jungle
It is an office that carries more than the usual political risk faced by ministers.
Wait and see approach on Syria
Given his wild campaign statements, anything is possible when it comes to how Trump may change America's foreign policy
ABCC an expensive deliverance
The government has ignored the national interest in favour of simply doing 'something' by year's end.
Aborigines still fighting for their unpaid wages
Economic racism against Indigenous Australians hasn't yet been consigned to history.
The highlights, lowlights and lowlifes of Parliament 2016
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.
The economic crunch that could usher in an equality revolution
Men will have to step into traditionally female roles and claim them.
Rotten fruit: Australia's politicians fail those who feed the cities
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.
Parliament House fence is unfortunate but unfortunately we need it
It is an unfortunate reality that the march of security measures tends to move in one direction only.
Star-struck MPs revisit their teens with visit from Van Damme
Standing inside the hallowed walls of Australia's Parliament, one of the last action heroes, learnt something.
Even 'independent' watchdogs should bark softly
The Coalition's treatment of Gillian Triggs was unjustified, though she isn't blameless.
Superglue? Screaming? Call that a protest?
As a protest, it was pretty lame, if loud and, for the demonstrators, satisfyingly disruptive.
Gas tax inquiry is moment of clarity for Scott Morrison
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.
Counting your chickens a poor idea when they're headless chooks
This shambles was perfectly predictable and it makes you wonder about the quality of smarts in the government.
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.