Australia should adopt this delightful but awful UK election tradition
Australia should follow the UK method of announcing seats. Election nights would be more interesting and importantly, more Elmo.
Terror is an old story, even in Australia
The nation and its rule of law have managed to survive assaults by terrorists of all shades over many decades.
Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull made the same miscalculation
The commonalities between a series of recent elections, including last year's poll in Australia, are striking.
Sketch: Donald Trump calls Jeremy Corbyn, gets his JCs mixed
Donald J. Trump sits in the Oval Office staring at a television sagging from the wall, its screen peppered with bullet holes. Clumps of freshly torn Cheezels-coloured hair are strewn across the great desk and a mobile phone lies smoking on the carpet.
The ACT's hidden educational underperformance
Our best students are not being extended, our disadvantaged children are not being improved.
AIS cast adrift?
We need to seriously debate the institute's future now, before it's gone.
Not even terrorism is above the political blame-game
Squalid political price-taking has already crept into the public space, and it began right at the top.
In two short sentences, the White House just partially excused terrorism
To say 12 Iranians who died were somewhat more legitimate targets muddies what should be an issue of crystal clarity.
Cutting through the haze of emission schemes
With a dizzying array of positions, how's anyone supposed to invest?
'Don't put the pint down': the radical approach to terrorism
Terrorism isn't going away any time soon. So we may as well keep calm.
Turnbull's impossibly high bar on change
The PM seems to believe our conservatism goes far beyond constitutional matters to life in general.
A new phase of desperation for extremists
Everything about terrorism is desperate, and the latest wave of attacks represents a new phase of great desperation.
Meet the new Malcolm: PM toughens talk against terrorists
Gone was talk of the "most harmonious multicultural nation in the world". Gone too, the front-footed defence of Islam.
Trump bluster cuts through word cloud of platitudes
Within hours of the latest terrorist attack in London, the reliably tasteless Donald Trump was taking political potshots, revealing a procedurally adolescent mind. For most of us, our earliest political statements - the usual blend of fact, idealism, ignorance, and too much passion - were not recorded. Thanks to our juniority, we were in no position to influence anything anyway. But in the digital age? Forget about it. Or rather, don't.
Defence 'policy': spend for spending's sake
Politicians no longer question the wisdom of the 2 per cent of GDP spending target.
Not merely citizens, but active citizens
The Uluru statement can take Indigenous people beyond being subjects to their rightful place.
Uncertain waters ahead for the Australian economy
Beware out there this week, folks. There's a storm a'comin'. An economic data storm, that is. Economists are tipping the good ship 'Oz economy' has hit shallow waters in the first half of 2017.
The one thing treasurers must not do
No-one ever got rewarded for putting the economy into recession.
Chifley versus the banks
The big banks won the last great war against government interference, 70 years ago.
Trump's more honest on climate than Turnbull
Until we stop building new coal mines, we should stop pretending we care about emissions.
A republic and a president? Pippa's in-laws seem fine
Spare a thought for the republicans.
Aborigines prefer the horizon
Real change, even symbolic, is never achieved by clever strategies, discussion papers or facilitators.
Ross Gittins: we'll have another bad recession sooner or later
There has to be more to our 26-year record than just our deft response to the global financial crisis.
Peter Hartcher: How our growth led to complacency, and bad politics
Australia's long run of economic success bred a complacency that persists to this day.
Defence spending is not the answer
Europe doesn't need another arms race despite what Trump says.
Why do our leaders fear Indigenous history?
Australia keeps baulking at a simple task that other nations managed with ease.
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.
The Ombudsman the government needs, or wants?
The new watchdog knows where many of the bureaucracy's bodies are buried. Will he disinter a few?
Call an ambulance! Barnaby Joyce is blowing a fuse
Face reddens until it is deep puce, veins on his neck and forehead bulge and he begins jabbering.
Why we need to give a Gonskini
Both sides of politics now agree about giving a Gonski. But we need to give a Gonskini, too.
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.