If Bill Shorten is under new pressure, he did a good job of hiding it
Labor has been stung by the Coalition's appropriation of the middle ground.
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
Labor has been stung by the Coalition's appropriation of the middle ground.
In politics as in life, you don't get a second chance to make a good first impression.
The PM has pulled off a surprising pirouette, wrong-footing his critics, and charting a course to middle-Australian households.
There is good and bad in the Turnbull government's measured university changes .
Obviously Westpac's public 'un-friending' of new coal is a body blow for the Adani Carmichael project.
PM had been sliding to this outcome all along, given no comfort by gas industry insouciance.
Malcolm Turnbull's inexorable shift to the right has failed to convince Bernardi that the conservative tradition is being represented.
Companies write off interest payments for the borrowings of offshore subsidiaries, study claims.
America is the world's undisputed military super power, but it faces a strategic conundrum over North Korea's nuclear intentions.
Australia normally doesn't need an excuse to join in wars with the Americans. But North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has just given us the best one there is: survival. Self defence is the most basic sovereign obligation a nation has.
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