Malcolm Turnbull caves after flirting with housing backflip
The public policy case for lowering the concession is strong. But the political cost was seen as too high.
It's a goal, it's a target, no, it's . . . Labor's energy policy
The last thing Labor can afford as it weathers a mounting scare campaign against its ambitious climate change policy, is any sense that it does not understand it itself.
Trump hedges on two state solution in Middle East
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Some voters are more equal than others
Pauline Hanson hasn't changed. Political circumstances have.
Why have our ministers got it in for the unemployed?
Using the disabled as a human shield to defend cuts to others is as dumb as it gets. Propagating fake news is worse.
PM's new scare campaign is going to work
The noisy parliamentary battle over renewable energy rages on
Trump tries to deflect Flynn scandal with angry tweet over leaks
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Michael Flynn's resignation leaves Australia one less friend in Trump's White House
The rollercoaster that is dealing with a Trump presidency just took another stomach-clenching dip.
Close the Gap: The big question went unasked and unanswered today
The bottom line is that far too many Aboriginal people feel excluded, disrespected, disempowered and discriminated against.
Polar opposites Trump and Trudeau talk during White House meeting about empowering women
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Hypocrisy, thy name is politics
It is among the more glaring ironies that professional politicians tend to recoil in horror when accused of "playing politics".
Renewed focus on renewable energy as fires rage across New South Wales
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The dinner party discussion: Who should replace Turnbull?
For most of its life, the Turnbull Coalition government has mysteriously underperformed – like a luxury car with persistent mechanical problems.
Over the top with Malcolm
Malcolm Turnbull's verbal blitzkrieg against Bill Shorten produced two diametrically opposed, yet predictable, responses from those who witnessed it at close quarters in the national parliament this week.
Bush needs fast rail and Net
Government spending on public infrastructure has stalled under the Coalition.
Blackouts and prawns
"Peak energy demand" has nothing to do with a lack of "baseload" power, whatever the government says.
Nuclear war has been close before
We've been close to nuclear war before so don't blame president Trump for creating fear of it.
Red carpet for rich tax dodgers
The Tax Office's record against high-end tax evaders is lamentable.
Be like Trump and lower company tax, says RBA Governor
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Gold Pass defender lacks the wit to realise he's an embarrassment to politics
Ian Macdonald just told voters it was never about them. And you can guarantee they heard.
'Angry Malcolm' channels Howard to impress the Liberal tribes
It is hardly surprising that Malcolm Turnbull has immediately followed up his personal attacks on Bill Shorten with more of the same.
There's a way out of our economic problems, it's not embracing Cory
So keen has Malcolm Turnbull become to appease his party's right wing that he is actually governing badly.
Trump uses Twitter to attack retailer over Ivanka's business
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Bernardi defection sounded the death knell of 'moderate Malcolm'
Critics who urge the PM to use a progressive issue to win back middle-Australia fail to understand the new reality.
PM must come out of liberal closet
Malcolm Turnbull should declare unequivocally that he is not a conservative.
More than Cory Bernardi: Why right wing politics is fracturing in Australia
Everywhere you look on the conservative side of politics, fellow travellers are feuding and old alliances are crumbling.
Cory Bernardi feels the heat over defection
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Labor's sneaky strategy has to go, Shorten
People are always complaining that our politicians - on both sides - are "out of touch". They're too high and mighty to understand the things that are annoying ordinary people in ordinary life.
Cory Bernardi's leaving? Phhht. So's the Gold Card, and MPs weep
A pall settled across Parliament House. MPs might come and go, but the Gold Card was supposed to go on forever.
The bromance is over: Why did Cory turn on Tony?
There was a time they bonded over the Queen, their distaste for the burka, and love for Margaret Thatcher. But the bromance is over.
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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.