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What Bernardi's curious lunch says about Abbott and his mates
Cory Bernardi is keeping some very interesting company and it should worry the Liberal Party.
Cory Bernardi is keeping some very interesting company and it should worry the Liberal Party.
Face reddens until it is deep puce, veins on his neck and forehead bulge and he begins jabbering.
Both sides of politics now agree about giving a Gonski. But we need to give a Gonskini, too.
Anyone who takes a public personal stand on this issue, regardless of which side, is brave.
If Australian media flounders, we'll lose local news, analysis and drama production.
Technology is radically transforming our society. Prepare for the fallout.
The shameful tax dodge by multinationals is undermining the project tendering process.
So much government aid goes to people who don't need it, and politicians seem helpless to stop it.
Australian schools are falling behind world standards because we waste money where it's not needed.
For Pauline Hanson, being outed as bigotry's uncritical conduit was like hitting a brick wall.
The leaders of America and Saudi Arabia have more in common than you might think.
Throughout the Sydney siege, the NSW Police never relied on the expert outsiders who were at hand.
The community must confront one issue, lest police once again allow inaction to play the predominant role in the outcome.
Australia isn't 'sleepwalking' into war; we already did that.
Does setting an arbitrary target for defence spending, rather than carefully judging the likely strategic threats, actually make a country any safer?
Welcome to what are blithely known as Senate estimates committee hearings.
The budget pushed low-income earners' marginal tax rate up towards 100 per cent.
We should love our national anthem not fall asleep because of it.
Government ministers bring very different approaches to the job.
The Turnbull government's budget measures may hit women earning below-average wages with an effective marginal tax rate of 100 per cent.
The economic future that the Treasury has forecast for Australia is, sadly, a nonsense.
With $400 million, Twiggy Forrest has discovered what many us won't: giving makes us feel good - and research shows he's right.
Liberal Party members in New South Wales will be charged $199 to attend a two-day talk-fest.
Peter Dutton's war on "fake refugees" is misleading, based on a false premise and dangerous in that it pre-empts a fair hearing of claims for refugee status.
A government's job is to make the best decisions possible in the long-term interest of all of us.
Police have long had a very slippery understanding and application of sub judice laws.
These elegant, thought-provoking addresses still reverberate 75 years later, even among critics,
If developing an Aussie Rules competition in the US is difficult, having one in China is well-nigh impossible.
The crocodiles, they say up north, finally got old Hugo, the hermit of the Olive River.
Imagine if you read this news story: Malcolm Turnbull has sacked the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police for continuing investigations into past links between Mr Turnbull's office and a foreign government. The extraordinary move coincides with explosive new revelations of impromptu intelligence sharing with that same government, by the Prime Minister himself. This fictional rendering conveys the gravity of events now swirling around Donald J Trump's idiosyncratic administration by posing the question: what would happen if an Australian PM leant on the AFP to forget past links with a foreign government; free lanced on sensitiv
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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