Keating: Euthanasia is a threshold moment, and one we should not cross
More people in our community will be put at risk by voluntary euthanasia than will be granted relief as its beneficiaries.
More people in our community will be put at risk by voluntary euthanasia than will be granted relief as its beneficiaries.
We should replace pill-testing at music festivals with drug-detection dogs.
Jacqui Lambie's plan to dampen the influence of insider politics are an important start, but just a start.
"Quick, quick, Prime Minister! He's at the doors!"
The national energy guarantee will do what each of the other schemes would have done.
The Turnbull government likes to call it an energy "trilemma" – how to meet the triple challenge of an affordable and reliable electricity system that also meets Australia's international obligations to cut emissions.
What a transformation. From leather jacket Malcolm warning of fig leaf Coalition policies that will do nothing for carbon reduction, to what.... Old King Coal, Captain Reliable, Chief Power Ranger?
Not content with the teenage hash he is making of the North Korea missile crisis, mostly via Twitter, Donald Trump has chosen this of all moments to escalate tensions with Tehran.
Collusion won't solve stagnant wage growth, but it will damage the economy.
If the PM ignores the people's message and fails to deliver it to conservatives, he and they have had it.
The Prime Minister is damned if he reacts, and damned if he doesn't.
If you talk to other female MPs, Julie Bishop's cabinet experience was not a high-profile one-off.
Is our federal system fragmenting into a contest pitting genuine regional parties against the major parties?
From "absolute crap" Tony Abbott had travelled to "coal is good for humanity" and now to the extraordinary proposition that global warming is itself good for humanity.
Softly treads the leader given a second life.
We either sign the nuclear ban treaty or we remain on the side of the outlaws.
The only institution that can protect our privacy is the one taking it: government.
"Climate change itself is probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm [and] .. a gradual lift in global temperatures ... might even be beneficial": Tony Abbott.
The Productivity Commission has found that the way the GST is divided up is broken, but it has also found something more important: that it doesn't much hurt us.
The patient's vital signs are not good. Power prices are high, and emissions haemorrhaging. Reliability and security of supply are in doubt. We need a treatment plan, and fast.
Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are not insensitive to the acute political jam created for WA Coalition candidates by that state's recent GST shortfall, it's just that the problem is diabolical.
Right now, Nick Xenophon is planning to spend his hard-won federal capital in a "do-or-die" re-investment in his home state's political scene, wellspring of his electoral success.
Third force or third wheel. Where you stand on Nick Xenophon depends on your leanings.
Forget the 'growing the pie for everyone' nonsense. Governing is about choices.
The worst insult since Anthony Quinn played Zorba. His Xness, Nick, explains.
None of our public guardians has a reputation for fearless defence of the public interest.
The decision by COAG required no courage at all. That does not make it wrong per se. But it should prompt concerns.
A study says Sydney and Melbourne should prepare for 50-degree summer days.
Not since Tony Abbott have we seen a political communicator with the sheer cut-through to voters as was on stage at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
Young Australians won't listen to this former prime minister, who will be on the losing side this time.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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