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Why modern politicians should hire glam squads
Here's hoping more people in public office engage the services of our presentation professionals.
Here's hoping more people in public office engage the services of our presentation professionals.
Job sharing and progressive taxation must be part of the solution to tackle automation.
It hasn't been the greatest of weeks for Pauline Hanson, the intensity of a campaign in unfamiliar territory exposing flaws many had sworn had been buffed over.
There were few excuses for staying home from school that carried weight with my mother. Mention an outbreak of measles among classmates, however, and sleep-ins were ours.
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In 2015 Cory Bernardi and his wife bought a $1 million commercial property in Kent Town, Adelaide. The building now serves as the headquarters for Bernardi's Australian Conservatives party.
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When historians of the future write about late Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, Pauline Hanson will be a major part of the story.
They congregate on social media, challenging facts and muddying evidence, until everything comes with a question mark.
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It has cost the budget a lot of money to make the prices of homes as hard to afford as they now are.
Our national security organisations are already working together well.
The restructure is Michelle Guthrie's baby and she will own its consequences - both good and bad.
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Malcolm Turnbull is not travelling west this week for the final gruelling days of the Western Australian state election, but his government's low standing and the taint of a resurgent Hansonism are playing their roles in the local contest.
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All eyes will be on the WA state election next Saturday to see how Labor polls.
The Ad Hoc Ways and Means Committee at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is suffering the vapours as it attempts to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats, 113 cross-the-world business-class return flights, 113 hotel suites, an unknown number of splendid dining occasions, cigars, champagne, cognac and, naturally, limousines on demand, into a paltry $1.1 million.
A week in Parliament House, Canberra, has similarities these days with a tennis match involving Nick Kyrgios or Bernard Tomic.
Hardly a week goes by without the publication of some well-thought-out, evidence-based paper recommending solutions to some of Australia's pressing economic and social problems – tax, education, health, defence, energy and so on.
Feminism is not a handy tool to be inflated and deflated on request.
Whether Barnaby Joyce or Pauline Hanson is the wiser statesman, the better politician or the more intelligent citizen is a moot question upon which few could hold a certain opinion, for now at least.
We are drifting into cheapskate politics that ignores evidence - and some public servants are helping.
Discrediting a person has never been easier, prosecuting an idea has never been harder.
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Alan Tudge, not Hank Jongen, must take responsibility for the agency's policies and their implementation.
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Malcolm Turnbull needs to change tack if he is to have any prospect of neutralising the debate on Sunday penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries, let alone winning it – and change tack fast.
Barnaby Joyce's push for bureaucrats to go to the bush is motivated by fear of One Nation.
The Liberals always, eventually, drift away from the sensible centre.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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