'Just put it on credit'
The public seems to think a surplus is either impossible or unimportant.
The public seems to think a surplus is either impossible or unimportant.
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The public policy case for lowering the concession is strong. But the political cost was seen as too high.
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.
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Pauline Hanson hasn't changed. Political circumstances have.
Using the disabled as a human shield to defend cuts to others is as dumb as it gets. Propagating fake news is worse.
The noisy parliamentary battle over renewable energy rages on
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The rollercoaster that is dealing with a Trump presidency just took another stomach-clenching dip.
The bottom line is that far too many Aboriginal people feel excluded, disrespected, disempowered and discriminated against.
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It is among the more glaring ironies that professional politicians tend to recoil in horror when accused of "playing politics".
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For most of its life, the Turnbull Coalition government has mysteriously underperformed – like a luxury car with persistent mechanical problems.
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.
Government spending on public infrastructure has stalled under the Coalition.
"Peak energy demand" has nothing to do with a lack of "baseload" power, whatever the government says.
We've been close to nuclear war before so don't blame president Trump for creating fear of it.
The Tax Office's record against high-end tax evaders is lamentable.
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Ian Macdonald just told voters it was never about them. And you can guarantee they heard.
It is hardly surprising that Malcolm Turnbull has immediately followed up his personal attacks on Bill Shorten with more of the same.
So keen has Malcolm Turnbull become to appease his party's right wing that he is actually governing badly.
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Critics who urge the PM to use a progressive issue to win back middle-Australia fail to understand the new reality.
Malcolm Turnbull should declare unequivocally that he is not a conservative.
Everywhere you look on the conservative side of politics, fellow travellers are feuding and old alliances are crumbling.
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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.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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