This Month
- Analysis
- ICAC
Berejiklian gets much-needed support in corruption inquiry
Deputy Liberal leader Stuart Ayres tried to convince ICAC he championed an infamous shooting-club grant, although he wasn’t present when the decision was made.
- Opinion
- Working from home
To avoid pink ghettos, men need to embrace hybrid work
The popularity of home working with women could worsen the gender gap by creating male-dominated workplaces, a top Commonwealth Bank executive says.
- Updated
- Analysis
- ICAC
Even Baird won’t defend Berejiklian over boyfriend
The former NSW premier decided he couldn’t back his friend, ally and successor at a corruption inquiry into her relationship with a disgraced MP.
NSW hospital admissions ‘defying modelling predictions’
A five-week decline in COVID-19 cases will not continue following the end of lockdown, Premier Dominic Perrottet said. But severe cases remain unexpectedly low.
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
After criticising NSW, Andrews is following the Premier State
The Victorian Premier’s pandemic reversal is inspired by the woman, Gladys Berejiklian, who was subjected to highly critical comparisons with her male counterpart.
Perrottet’s biggest pandemic gamble yet
NSW’s libertarian-leaning premier has thrown open the door to the rest of the world by ending quarantine for international travellers. The health consequences are uncertain.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Workplace
What prestige TV can teach you about your career
Shows like ‘Succession’ help us understand how offices work and how they can be improved through good leadership.
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Privileged farmers seek special treatment in climate deal
The case for a rural slush fund in return for farmers’ support for a net-zero-by-2050 climate target is dubious.
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
NSW’s loose vax checks threaten Perrottet’s reopening
Lax checking of vaccination status poses a political and health risk to the NSW government’s nation-leading reopening.
Perrottet’s great pandemic experiment
NSW’s new Premier believes medical advice has been allowed to overwhelm other important considerations, including the right of children to attend school.
- Analysis
- State Parliament
A Millennial conservative arrives in power
New NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is banking on his religion and family winning votes, and says having many commitments ‘enriches you’.
- Analysis
- Nationals
The blunt force that was Nationals leader John Barilaro
The Deputy Premier’s departure removes one of the most disruptive members of the NSW government.
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
The office is in trouble but not dead
Whether 13 million Australian workers should return permanently to their workplaces is the biggest question of the pandemic facing business.
- Opinion
- State Parliament
Perrottet emerges as the great right hope
The NSW Treasurer believes conservative values of thrift, self-reliance and morality can extend centre-right parties’ support into the working classes.
Perrottet stitches up deal to be next NSW premier
The Treasurer surprised political observers by siding with Stuart Ayres over the leader of the party’s left-wing faction, Environment Minister Matt Kean.
Berejiklian resignation leaves NSW in pandemic limbo
Two leadership tickets are competing to replace the NSW premier, who was Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s strongest ally during the pandemic.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Political leadership
The tragedy of Berejiklian’s downfall
The premier’s decision to date a possibly corrupt MP was more than a misjudgment of character. It was a willful flirtation with danger.
- Opinion
- Property market
Frydenberg faces a decision fraught with political danger
The Treasurer is taking a great political risk trying to deflate what might be an asset bubble in the months before a federal election during a pandemic.
September
- Analysis
- Investment banking
Goldman Sachs, the Turnbulls and a broken friendship
A court fight over Pengana Capital provides an insight into how, even in a world where relationships are meant to be everything, money rules.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Social media
Should there be an Instagram for 10-year-olds?
Facebook’s decision to pause its Instagram Kids project raises a troubling question: is social media the new tobacco?
