Far from protecting his reputation, Tony Abbott is trashing it
Is Tony Abbott's post-leadership decompensation entering its final stage where the real harm is to his own legacy?
Failure dressed up as success
The left has a bad habit of celebrating glorious losses. I prefer victories.
Remember the ozone hole? Today's coal apologists don't
Think of the ozone hole and you might get a preview of the humiliation awaiting the current champions of coal-fired energy.
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.
The endangered elephant in the energy room
Where is the environment in debates about climate change and energy?
The creeping sickness taking over our politics
The Coalition and Labor will ban foreign political donations. That's nowhere near enough.
Finkel question hangs over PM's leadership
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.
Changing nature of war may undo us
We've already made the critical purchases that will shape the forces for the next half-century.
Terrorists are using encryption. Our laws need to keep up with the technology
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.
Labor's professed preference for policy purity is phoney
For the growing number of us who care more about good policy and effective governance than party loyalties, the news isn't good.
Gonski 2.0: Your school funding questions answered
Here's our guide to help you cut through the spin.
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.
Turnbull enters a new phase, but will anyone notice?
The Turnbull government is engaged seriously in trying to solve some big problems that touch the lives of most of the people.
Green-again Turnbull starts down a familiar path
For Malcolm Turnbull, attempting to be "green-again" is a dangerous but necessary risk.
Record-breaking economy? We're no world-beater
The claim Australia has been recession-free for 2½ decades is technically true, but meaningless.
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.
Trump the barbarian who cares only for himself
The so-called leader of the Western world has completely rejected science and diplomacy.
Terror is an old story, even in Australia
The nation has managed to survive assaults by terrorists of all shades over many decades.
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.
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.
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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.