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Despite what Dutton says, the Manus Island payout is momentous
You don't agree to a payout of more than $90 million if you are confident you can defend your position in open court.
You don't agree to a payout of more than $90 million if you are confident you can defend your position in open court.
Where is the environment in debates about climate change and energy?
Think of the ozone hole and you might get a preview of the humiliation awaiting the current champions of coal-fired energy.
Tony Abbott has already come from nowhere to replace Malcolm Turnbull as leader once as the Liberal Party convulsed over Labor's progressive climate policy in 2009.
We've already made the critical purchases that will shape the forces for the next half-century.
As we learn details from investigations into recent terrorist attacks in Tehran, London, Jakarta and Manchester, a common theme is emerging of terrorists using commercial encrypted communications services to plan, support and commit terrorist attacks.
For the growing number of us who care more about good policy and effective governance than party loyalties, the news isn't good.
Here's our guide to help you cut through the spin.
The commonalities between a series of recent elections, including last year's poll in Australia, are striking.
The Turnbull government is engaged seriously in trying to solve some big problems that touch the lives of most of the people.
For Malcolm Turnbull, attempting to be "green-again" is a dangerous but necessary risk.
The claim Australia has been recession-free for 2½ decades is technically true, but meaningless.
Australia should follow the UK method of announcing seats. Election nights would be more interesting and importantly, more Elmo.
The so-called leader of the Western world has completely rejected science and diplomacy.
The nation has managed to survive assaults by terrorists of all shades over many decades.
Donald J. Trump sits in the Oval Office staring at a television sagging from the wall, its screen peppered with bullet holes.
Our best students are not being extended, our disadvantaged children are not being improved.
We need to seriously debate the institute's future now, before it's gone.
Squalid political price-taking has already crept into the public space, and it began right at the top.
To say 12 Iranians who died were somewhat more legitimate targets muddies what should be an issue of crystal clarity.
With a dizzying array of positions, how's anyone supposed to invest?
Terrorism isn't going away any time soon. So we may as well keep calm.
The PM seems to believe our conservatism goes far beyond constitutional matters to life in general.
Everything about terrorism is desperate, and the latest wave of attacks represents a new phase of great desperation.
Gone was talk of the "most harmonious multicultural nation in the world". Gone too, the front-footed defence of Islam.
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.
Politicians no longer question the wisdom of the 2 per cent of GDP spending target.
The Uluru statement can take Indigenous people beyond being subjects to their rightful place.
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.
No-one ever got rewarded for putting the economy into recession.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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