Why Mike Baird's departure is bad news for Malcolm Turnbull
The PM's back-up is now missing and the outlook is as uncertain as ever.
The PM's back-up is now missing and the outlook is as uncertain as ever.
Until we know more about senior bureaucrats' conflicts of interest, we are inviting corruption.
This is the damage-control reshuffle Malcolm Turnbull had to have after throwing Sussan Ley overboard: pragmatic, minimalist and utterly risk-averse.
Should our politicians continue to baulk at real reform, they will rightly be seen as ignoble and hypocritical.
Since he came to power Malcolm Turnbull has been slowly unwinding some of Tony Abbott's pet projects.
Malcolm Turnbull is caught in a perfect storm, his government being assailed for making life harder for the less well off while certain of his ministers are seen to behave like the rich and famous.
It's getting more expensive by the minute but is tertiary education worth the money?
Sussan Ley has blown Malcolm Turnbull's cover. She has resigned not because she concedes any breach of the rules covering politicians' travel or the Prime Minister's code of ministerial conduct.
How can such a modern people as Americans tolerate such a dud political system?
When scandal erupts in Canberra, the major parties stop short of suggesting any real changes to the way MPs are held to account.
Not once in her media conference at Albury did she say sorry to the public for not just one, but a number of errors of judgment when it comes to spending their money.
Sussan Ley's mea culpa for slugging the taxpayer for a trip to the Gold Coast when she bought a Main Beach apartment is hopelessly inadequate and will not be the end of the matter.
The most frightening thing about the Centrelink malware debacle is the verve with which the government embraced it.
Heath Minister Sussan Ley's conduct invites the "pub test" at the precise time of year when many Australians, drink in hand, are extremely well-placed to apply it.
It's time to end our dirty little secret
Queensland has changed since Pauline Hanson and her promises first became a political force 20 years ago. It seems One Nation has not.
"The worst we can do is to take this partnership for granted," Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared more than six years ago, when he became the first Indonesian president to address Australia's parliament in 2010.
Indonesia's hardliner military chief Gatot Nurmantyo has little love for Australia.
The republic debate has been trickling along at the same time as dissatisfaction with democracy and political elites grows and voters show a predilection for outsiders.
In the absence of the hard facts on just why Jakarta has chosen to suspend military co-operation between Indonesia and Australia, this smacks of a storm in a teacup.
From the death of David Bowie to the rise of Donald Trump to whatever you call what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spent the year doing, here's how Fairfax Media cartoonist David Pope captured some of the key events and issues of 2016.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says Cory Bernardi could pick up 10 per cent of the vote and Senators in every state if he quits the Liberal party.
Once Labor and the unions stood up for battlers. Now they’re robocalling seeking sympathy for millionaires who want to stay on the pension.
Politics is an occupation increasingly concerned with personalities as much as it is with policies.
The last Newspoll for 2016 reinforced the basic political conundrum of this decade.
It started sometime between the second and third courses.
Here are a few predictions for the coming year, starting with Malcolm Turnbull losing his job.
This year, no matter which election I'm voting in, I plan to be a conviction voter.
For Malcolm Turnbull, 2016 has been a year of political compromises, dashed expectations and the occasional policy win.
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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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