Turnbull's chance for a fresh start
Malcolm Turnbull will play the lead role in his own re-make of Mission Impossible in 2017, complete with a cast of villains and traitors and no end of unpredictable subplots.
Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age.
Malcolm Turnbull will play the lead role in his own re-make of Mission Impossible in 2017, complete with a cast of villains and traitors and no end of unpredictable subplots.
The Federal Court has found Peter Dutton unreasonably delayed making decisions on applications for citizenship by refugees in a landmark ruling that has implications for thousands of would-be citizens.
To those who say this is about things done in the past, the message is that it is about what was happening right now.
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians will not be a roadblock to a treaty, but a step toward a final settlement and the closing the disadvantage gap, Bill Shorten has said.
"This is business as usual," Malcolm Turnbull declared this morning, as he defended the decision to release a set of broad terms of reference for a climate change policy review that has been Coalition policy for years.
Forget post-truth. This is the era of post-hope, where the instinct of voters is to give the finger to an established order.
'The reputation of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund investing ethically would be tarnished by ongoing investment in these camps'.
Peter Dutton found himself in unfamiliar territory this week, cast as the victim of the "tricky language" of Bill Shorten.
Australia faces a "social time bomb" over the failure to process and integrate more than 30,000 asylum seekers who are in the community on bridging visas after arriving by boat during the term of the former Labor government.
Report also mounts a powerful argument that officials statistics on self-harm and threatened self-harm dramatically understate the scale of the problem.
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