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Our $6b-a-year asset needs us to speak up
The Great Barrier Reef is dying on our watch, and that's almost all we're doing.
The Great Barrier Reef is dying on our watch, and that's almost all we're doing.
Barnaby Joyce long teetered on the edge of being remembered as a clown.
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The case doesn't stack up and send a message that, in the words of George Brandis, people have a right to be bigots.
Another moderate shibboleth associated with national unity has been slain. On Harmony Day. Priceless.
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Why do politicians discount unions and pander to businesses that ignore the community?
Australians are jaded of big announcements. We've heard too many, and seen too little action.
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 hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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