Federal
Drug testing welfare recipients a 'tick a box' exercise that can never work
Sally WhyteSep 1, 20171 Comment
There are between 200,000 and 500,000 people who want to access drug and alcohol services who are unable to because there are not enough doctors and clinics. What will be accomplished by forcing drug-addicted welfare recipients to join the queue?
How Dutton is slowly undermining the rule of law in Australia
Michael BradleySep 1, 201714 Comments
Peter Dutton has sent an unequivocal signal that he holds the human rights of asylum seekers to be non-existent, insignificant or, at best, an inconvenience. Which might turn out to be bad news for his own department.
Poll Bludger: surge in youth enrolment ahead of plebiscite spells trouble for Turnbull
William BoweSep 1, 20176 Comments
An unusual mid-term surge in electoral enrolment that has had a measurable impact on the demographic profile of the prospective voting population.
How The Daily Telegraph learned to quit worrying and love Anthony Albanese
Charlie LewisAug 31, 20173 Comments
The Daily Telegraph sure loves Anthony Albanese. Except when it doesn't. Crikey has a look at why that might be.
Clean Energy Target: Labor should let them eat coal
Bernard KeaneAug 31, 20178 Comments
It's time for compromise on a Clean Energy Target -- set it to allow for coal, and wait for investors to show up to build new coal-fired power plants. The catch is, it's unlikely any will.
Meet the No campaign's Heidi McIvor, with links to the Gippsland Times and a mission from God
Bhakthi PuvanenthiranAug 31, 20179 Comments
A closer look at a vocal member of the No to same-sex marriage campaign reveals a church on a mission to take over the state.
Razer: politics as sport reduces citizens to fans
Helen RazerAug 31, 201713 Comments
Treating politics as sport means that winning, not policy, becomes the only meaningful result.
LEAKED: Deleted scenes from the 'You can say No' video
CrikeyAug 31, 20173 Comments
Concerned mums who are completely unconnected to any political organisation are concerned.
Neoliberals can't endlessly cut uni funding and expect a smart, well-educated Australia
Bernard KeaneAug 30, 201725 Comments
The government's continuing war on higher education funding reflects a decades-old mentality that universities only have economic value.
Rorting the system? Asylum seekers given 'final departure visa E' actually saving taxpayers millions
Charlie LewisAug 29, 20174 Comments
Peter Dutton tells us his recent crackdown on asylum seekers in Australia is about the costs of a rorted system -- but how do those costs compare with the detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island?