Trump's America has Turnbull scrambling
In three ways - and in just three days - Donald Trump has profoundly unsettled Australia's assumptions about the world.
In three ways - and in just three days - Donald Trump has profoundly unsettled Australia's assumptions about the world.
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The question of the frequent misuse of parliamentary work expenses, known as entitlements, forces us to look closely at what political representation involves and who should pay for it. The recent case of former health minister Sussan Ley is just one of many questionable instances which have stained reputations and ended careers.
The most widely cited figure in the robo-debt debate is wrong. The true number of mistakes is perhaps as high as 90 per cent.
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If the Trans-Pacific Partnership was really as good for jobs and growth as Malcolm Turnbull says it was, he would be able to point to a study saying so.
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The Wire's arch drug lord Avon Barksdale was philosophical in the face of a long jail sentence: "You only serve two days, the day you go in, and the day you get out". You'd think this mentality could work best for parties consigned to the opposition benches. But no. These days, its governments that feel most hemmed in, constrained at every turn by the crushing weight of febrile politics, internal divisions, anaemic growth, and inevitable disappointment.For Malcolm Turnbull, and indeed most governments recently, Barksdale's advice seems most apposite. Although in Turnbull's case, even the day he won was pretty terrible, marred as it was by something of a hissy-fit.
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Parliament is set to return in just over a fortnight but why are they even bothering?
It sounds like something a budding Bolshevik might have whispered into the ear of a political confidant in early 1917.
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.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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