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Business as usual on same-sex marriage. ABC News

Business as usual on same-sex marriage

There will be no resolution until Turnbull deals with his conservatives
Mungo MacCallum
Rejection of the Uluru statement reveals the real Turnbull. ABC News

Rejection of the Uluru statement reveals the real Turnbull

The arguments against an Indigenous voice to parliament simply don’t stack up
Mungo MacCallum
Comment

A travesty of process

The same-sex marriage survey sets a dangerous precedent
Judith Brett

Euthanasia, like same-sex marriage, is a decision for the parliament

There is a stark difference in how the Victorian premier and the PM approached their respective hot-button issues
Mungo MacCallum

Names have been suppressed

Attempts to encourage censorship and deliberate amnesia seldom work
Mungo MacCallum

Bob Hawke, we miss you

In retrospect, the Hawke years seem something of a golden age.
Mungo MacCallum

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Federal Politics

‘Socialist’ Shorten and the small businessmen

The government is becoming increasingly desperate to paint Labor as a poor economic manager
Mungo MacCallum
Success dogged him. Image of Alfred Deakin
Arts & Letters / Books

Success dogged him

Judith Brett’s ‘The Enigmatic Mr Deakin’ is a skilful portrait of Australia’s second prime minister
Mark McKenna
Canberra needs a watchdog. Jeff Fisher Illustration
Comment

Canberra needs a watchdog

Who is keeping an eye on our federal politicians?
Richard Denniss

Leader’s block

How can Turnbull overcome the Coalition’s ongoing poll woes?
Mungo MacCallum
Comment

He will never stop

Tony Abbott seems determined to wreck the clean energy target
Judith Brett
The Nation Reviewed

Debt. Recovery.

A parliamentary committee’s report on the Centrelink robo-debt debacle makes for damning reading
Alex McKinnon

It’s just the vibe of the thing

Section 44 of the Constitution is not an adequate way of gauging allegiance to Australia
Mungo MacCallum

On the bright side

It’s nice that Nick Greiner thinks a chat might end the Abbott–Turnbull war
Mungo MacCallum

A simple case of arithmetic

Turnbull isn’t the only Liberal avoiding mathematical reality
Mungo MacCallum


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International Politics

Trump and Russia: a guide for the bewildered
A fuller story of relations between the Russian government and the Trump campaign is only now coming to light
Robert Manne
The handshake. Illustration
Comment
The handshake
Could Donald Trump finally force Australia to critically examine its feudal obligations to the US?
Don Watson
UK election diary: The London attacks
Labor senator Sam Dastyari, in London for the UK general election, was caught up in the attack on the Borough Market
Sam Dastyari
Once upon a time in America
Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey will jeopardise any future investigation
Robert Manne


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Issues & Policies

Of course sports and politics should mix. Screenshot of Macklemore
Of course sports and politics should mix
They can and they do, and politicians only object when it’s a message they don’t like
Mungo MacCallum
What should we do with Captain Cook?. Illustration
Comment
What should we do with Captain Cook?
The pitfalls of memorialising historical figures
Don Watson
The crusade against same-sex marriage
The Church is inconsistent in its rhetoric on discrimination
Mungo MacCallum
Exhuming the Murphy allegations. Image of Lionel Murphy
Exhuming the Murphy allegations
Lionel Murphy was a singular personality – and it got him in trouble
Mungo MacCallum


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