If the politicians have cooked up a "done deal" for mere minimalism on constitutional recognition, Aboriginal people will say no. Substantive reform, or nothing at all. That was the clear message relayed at the Victorian dialogue in Melbourne this weekend. It is a message we, as convenors of the gathering, support 100 per cent.
Is it any wonder people despair about the government's economic credentials?
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As the Liberal and Labor bases crumble, the temptation is to chase the strays, writes Mark Kenny
The party will need to separate itself from Pauline Hanson if it wants to succeed.
When Malcolm Turnbull assumed the mantle of a nation-building prime minister this week, evoking the vision and courage of those who delivered Australia's biggest engineering project, he could have offered a silent prayer to his Liberal predecessors.
The Prime Minister has crossed his Rubicon, without Caesar's armies but equally desperate.
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Just as dwindling unions and, by association, their parliamentary champions, were thrown a lifeline by the prospect of a WorkChoices-style campaign to protect weekend penalty rates, a union leader reminds voters what they hated about the old model of industrial relations: strikes, intimidation, and belligerent lawlessness.
There are a series of problems that always crop up when departments and agencies integrate.
Australia's tortured and toxic debate on energy policy has entered its most destructive phase.
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Greens leader Richard Di Natale may not get the reaction he expects for his proposal of a four-day working week, writes Tony Wright.
Virtual parliaments and job-sharing MPs are problematic ideas, but still possible.
Perhaps voters are more awake to it after the bizarre "real Julia" declaration, but when a leader suddenly promises "leadership," it grates.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with decentralisation, so long as politics are kept out of it.
Forced to act by catastrophic blackouts eliciting little more than ridicule from the federal sphere, the South Australian Labor premier has cast off the threadbare fabric of Australia's patchy national energy nework.
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Pauline Hanson, her head shooting flames, backs her chief adviser, James Ashby, against a Perth wall.
There's a message here for the PM: cut the ideological clap-trap, and get the budget under control.
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The WA election was supposed to be One Nation's demonstration of its unstoppable momentum.
The preference deal helped to turn a certain debacle into an unmitigated disaster.
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.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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