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Running back down the hill: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Local Government Gabrielle Upton arrive at a ...

NSW voters won't easily forget botched council mergers

The backdown on local council mergers is a humiliating defeat for Premier Gladys Berejiklian and local government minister Gabrielle Upton, their predecessors Mike Baird and Paul Toole, and the NSW government as a whole.

Four-year fixed terms for Federal Parliament are overdue

Political co-operation alert: Fixed-term parliaments require bipartisan support.

A four-year fixed parliamentary term will always look pretty good to the incumbents and pretty bad to the challengers. That's one reason this important constitutional reform for Australia has been so long talked about but never achieved.

Survival of Aboriginal Australians should be a cause for national pride

Traditional owners Simon Mudjandi, Rosie Mudjandi, May Nango and Mark Djanjomerr at the Kakadu rock shelter where ...

The revelations from an ancient campsite in Kakadu should deepen our nation's respect for Indigenous Australians. On the evidence, though, that respect is in short supply, so a discovery that should be a cause for national pride is instead another reminder of our national shame.

A question of trust in new national security arrangements

The Prime Minister backed by rows of gas-masked, camo-clad, machine-gun-toting special forces.

Masked soldiers were in the frame to convey that there's a new normal, and it's not safe, and that's why we need the blitz on national security arrangements which the Prime Minister prosecuted with vigour this fourth week of the parliamentary winter break.

A risk for all sides from Greens chaos

Former Greens senator Scott Ludlam has resigned after discovering he held dual citizenship.

Scott Ludlam has made an honest, though extremely careless and costly mistake.When governments rely on the narrowest of margins to get their legislation passed, we can expect the validity of every vote to be scrutinised.

Trump presidency's dishonesty exposed

Donald Trump jnr admits with the benefit of hindsight he might have done things differently.

Who knows for sure why anything goes viral on the internet. There's a bright future for the person who can figure that out. Surely, though, the reason ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann's assessment of Donald Trump's performance at the G20 meeting took off was that it showed Americans from the perspective of an informed outsider just how far and fast the reputation of not just the US Presidency but of the US itself is falling under Trump.

Relief but no resolution in Mosul's fall

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi holds a national flag upon his arrival in Mosul on Sunday to mark the defeat of ...

With much of the city in ruins, thousands of lives lost and more than a million people displaced from their homes, there will be limits to celebrations of the liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul. The situation remains complex and dangerous even in "peace".

First language of Sydney key to culture celebration

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Bujarri Gamurruwa … That's g'day (or perhaps something more formal) in the Gadigal language of the Eora nation. We greet our readers this way to mark NAIDOC week, the annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the referendum which was the first step in recognising the rights of Aboriginal Australians.