Why Treasury thought Turnbull was wrong on negative gearing
Malcolm Turnbull knew or ought to have known that the claims he made about Labor's housing policy were likely to be wrong.
Election 2016: Comment & Analysis
The jobs boom is real, and for once, government can take the credit
The Bureau of Statistics has produced some shockers - wildly inaccurate employment statistics it has had to disown, but not this time.
The plot to keep critics quiet next election
Can't stand politics? The good news is that when the election campaign proper begins, we'll discuss policies, or maybe not.
His Honour Paul Murray finds Malcolm Roberts is not an alien
Verdict on the heritage of One Nation's Malcom Roberts, by Paul Murray of pay TV, is in.
It's not the wind, it's the gas. Why power prices are going berserk
Prepare for a shock. On July 1 electricity prices jumped 15 to 20 per cent.
The important questions the census didn't ask
Some of the census questions are next to useless.
Pushing up prices may help home buyers
Every scheme being considered would push prices higher.
Finally, we could have a budget that will do something
Tuesday week, Morrison and Turnbull will no longer be as limited by concern about budget deficit.
Memo Scott Morrison: there ain't no jam jars
What's this about a "locked box"?
"You can't legislate for morality"
"You can't legislate for morality," quipped Senator Arthur Sinodinos.
Loyal public servant to 7 prime ministers rides into the sunset
Human rights pioneer, who broke the news of Harold Holt's disappearance, retires after remarkable seven-decade career.
Centrelink's robo-debacle is a litany of inhuman errors
The Centrelink robo-debt debacle will dwarf that of the bungled census, for which the Prime Minister declared that heads would roll.
Star man Malcolm Turnbull no longer blowing voters' minds
Malcolm Turnbull is a messiah who then crashed in the polls. But there's still time to recover.
Pressuring foreign workers wrong way to reform 457 visas
Both sides of politics are taking aim at the 457 visa. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten vowed Labor would crack down on the temporary skilled migration scheme to ensure unemployed Australians can find work.
PM's change of tune strains ABC friendship
From leather-jacketed guest to constructive critic, the PM has all bases covered when it comes to the national broadcaster.
Rudd on steroids: Why business is embracing Trump
Suddenly, Trump is good for business.
Turnbull government is close to being morally bankrupt
Did you know our social security system is so open to rorting that it's possible for some people to get more from benefits than they'd earn if they took a job? And we wonder why we have problem with debt and deficit.
Has anyone in the Coalition ever actually met a pregnant woman?
The Coalition's paid parental leave changes make it seem like the government is made up of men.
If Donald Trump scares you, you should fight for facts everywhere
If the internet is awash in lies and fake news - we must stand up for facts in the political realm, wherever we are.
Boris Johnson wanted the leadership, not Brexit, claims Tory MP
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Pauline Hanson's howlers in a speech off-key
Pauline Hanson's first speech as a senator is maddeningly thick with selective statistics, wild assertions and untested claims, but a handful of howlers stand out.
Retrospective? Pull the other one, but it's a win for PM
Limiting the amount anyone could contribute out of their own money into tax-advantaged super on top of employer contributions was never retrospective, but those who thought it was can relax. The government is imposing a limit by another means.
It's our democracy, we should stand up for it
Political activism is not retweeting a petition about the live cattle trade while watching an episode of The Bachelor.
Dastyari had to go, now the rules have to change
Bill Shorten presented himself as a champion of reform but how could he be taken seriously if he was seen to condone Sam Dastyari's bewildering stupidity?
Face it: there will be no free vote of marriage equality
A proposal designed to delay and divide is doing exactly that. And conservatives are loving it.
Mathias Cormann wobbles short of a sizzling insult to Bill Shorten
Mathias Cormann, when he offered up his "wibble wobble, jelly on a plate" line on Monday, surely had a hotter verse from that annoying nursery rhyme on the tip of his tongue.
How the big parties feathered their Senate nests
A blatant act of collusion between the two biggest political parties in Australia will fall apart.
Voting and counting votes needs to be made easier
The new voting system was supposed to prevent senators being elected on very small percentages of the primary vote. So did Hercules Turnbull clean out the unrepresentative swill in the Augean stables? No.
Free-speech fundamentalists break free of good conscience
David Leyonhjelm is a boorish, supercilious know-all with the empathy of a besser block. And that new Hansonite conspiracy theorist from Queensland? He's an absurdist fringe-dweller and fellow hate-speech apologist. It's wacky and wackier. Neither of these self-promoting misanthropes would have the first idea about entrenched discrimination. Yet both are experts.You may disagree with this harsh critique and probably think it unbecoming of a serious media outlet. But offensive to them, it is not. And that's the point.
Banks respond to the Reserve Bank rate cut as one
Our biggest banks move fast. Either that, or they collude. At 2.37 pm on Tuesday within minutes of the Reserve Bank cutting its cash rate to an all-time low, the Commonwealth Bank announced a completely different way of responding. Instead of passing on some of all of the cut, it would only pass on half and hand some of the rest out to customers as higher term deposit rates.