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A budget for voters, not the common good
Unless we act seriously to preserve our threatened planet, all the budget's nuances will be meaningless.
Unless we act seriously to preserve our threatened planet, all the budget's nuances will be meaningless.
The budget seems to have elevated hypocrisy and backtracking to new heights of shamelessness.
Spending will stay at or near record highs while revenue rapidly climbs to match.
NSW and Victoria have effectively stolen money and power from the rest of Australia for 60 years.
Why do politicians wait until they retire before they query our relationship with the US?
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.
Australia has long had its share of minor party and independent voters, informal voters and non-voters.
You'd be hard-pressed to judge who had the worst job in the nation's capital on Wednesday.
Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have got back into the business of governing.
Of the government's four goes so far, this is its best budget. For a budget aimed squarely at improving Malcolm Turnbull's ailing political fortunes, its economics is much better.
The Prime Minister has given a few hints he might actually take up his last chance to survive.
The Coalition needs to undo John Howard's damage and tackle the government's tax shortfall.
A little more money, yes, but don't expect schools to improve. That's a much harder problem.
It's easy to whip up fear but we should be doing better.
Tony Abbott's term in office is now a smoking ruin.
State of origin still matters a great deal in federal politics, which isn't entirely a party v party contest.
There has rarely been such a gulf between insiders and outsiders; between what most politicians and what most people think that politics is about, writes Tony Abbott.
The PM has pulled off a surprising pirouette, wrong-footing his critics, and charting a course to middle-Australian households.
If the politics of education funding were a poker game, a David Gonski unveiling would be a royal flush.
Last week I sauntered to the sandstone loveliness of the University of Melbourne to talk about the coming federal budget.
Rein in the tax avoidance rorts, and cap government spending on contractors and consultants.
There is good and bad in the Turnbull government's measured university changes .
Ordinary people benefit from this 'bad debt'.
Centrelink insists 'clients' are to blame for 'misunderstanding'.
Obviously Westpac's public 'un-friending' of new coal is a body blow for the Adani Carmichael project.
The Immigration Minister effectively put three refugees, and the entire population of detainees, in the dock.
How many farmers on their tractors listen to Double J via their TV? How many of us take out our TV when we're gardening?
It makes no sense to force non-profit organisations to register in every state if they want to fund-raise online.
The budget is unbalanced because of the steady abdication of personal responsibility to the state.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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