Christopher Pyne has to go after this failure
The Turnbull government has just demonstrated indiscipline. It cannot afford to make this a habit.
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Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a Gold Walkley award winner, a former foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Washington, and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His latest book is The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away. His 2005 book, Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing Seven Trillion Dollars, foresaw the collapse of the US housing market and the economic slump that followed.
Hunt orders CSIRO climate science U-turn
New Science Minister Greg Hunt has ordered a major u-turn in the direction of the CSIRO, reviving climate research as a bedrock function just months after the national science agency slashed climate staff and programs.
Biden takes veiled swipe at Hanson, Trump
US Vice-President Joe Biden has attacked "the gathering forces of racism" in America and Australia.
Both parties lose themselves in all-consuming narcissism
Instead of ending Australia's dismal decade of politics, the election appears to have set it up for another round.
Two messages drew blood in the campaign
The underlying struggle was for the Liberals to build public trust in Turnbull, and for Labor to damage it.
It's 50-50, so what was the point of it all?
At the start of the election campaign, the Turnbull government was ahead on the national vote by 51 per cent to Labor's 49 in the Fairfax Ipsos poll.
Libs taking country down Brexit, Trump road
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says Australia "is not immune" to the populist anger powering Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign.
Turnbull plays part of solid conservative
Malcolm Turnbull has completed his transformation from progressive firebrand to ambassador for the conservative brand.
Shorten cannot be all things to all people
Bill Shorten began the Labor leadership as a Faceless Man, but he has now completed the shift to become Everyman.
Xenophon to 'drag both parties to the centre'
Potential kingmaker Nick Xenophon names his policy priorities for negotiation with Labor or Liberal to form a government after the July 2 election.
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