National affairs
26 February 2025
With the Coalition matching Labor’s promises, are vital Medicare reforms being dealt out of contention?
National affairs
18 February 2025
Newspoll is changing the way it estimates how voters will direct their preferences
National affairs
17 February 2025
Labor seems set for another record-breaking win at next month’s Western Australian election
National affairs
7 February 2025
History suggests Labor’s state election loss in the Sunshine State last October might — just might — work in Anthony Albanese’s favour
National affairs
7 February 2025
A Darwin school’s decision to drop Indonesian points to a broader failure
National affairs
5 February 2025
A new report on Services Australia highlights the failings of public service capability reviews
National affairs
28 January 2025
Can South Australia’s flicker of educational inspiration be turned into a beacon?
National affairs
17 January 2025
Mediscare Mark II could grab the election headlines, but the real reform action is elsewhere
National affairs
16 January 2025
But not necessarily in the way pundits think they do
National affairs
19 December 2024
The arc of the moral universe might bend towards justice but sometimes it twists along the way
National affairs
16 December 2024
2024’s casualties among governments across the globe throw fresh light on the US result
National affairs
12 December 2024
The signs aren’t great for Labor, but the Coalition has its vulnerabilities too — and the election is still months away
National affairs
6 December 2024
Pauline Hanson is wrong and Fatima Payman right about the question of eligibility
National affairs
29 November 2024
Do partisan voters really inhabit separate realities?
National affairs
19 November 2024
Big parties versus the rest? Our assessment of the government’s plans
National affairs
12 November 2024
Fifty-six years later, a soldier finally receives his Victoria Cross. Was it all a matter of timing?
National affairs
8 November 2024
What lessons should Labor take away from the Democratic Party’s defeat?
National affairs
4 November 2024
Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements
National affairs
24 October 2024
Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed. It’s time for a rethink
National affairs
27 September 2024
The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
National affairs
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
National affairs
24 September 2024
Bob Hawke’s old seat is among the Greens’ best prospects, but the redistribution isn’t quite the gift it looks
National affairs
17 September 2024
The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong
National affairs
16 September 2024
The Keating government’s changes to employment services – intensified by its Coalition successors — have bred inefficiency and fragmentation
National affairs
3 September 2024
The arguments against a rise in JobSeeker have proliferated, but none of them stands up to scrutiny
National affairs
30 August 2024
It’s time for a reborn immigration department outside Canberra’s bulging home affairs portfolio
National affairs
29 August 2024
ASIC has accused Australia’s dominant stock exchange operator of false and misleading conduct. But does the ASX have a deeper problem?
National affairs
28 August 2024
The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession
National affairs
26 August 2024
NAPLAN’s scorecard has been back in the news, but could those test results be hiding a more important failure?
National affairs
26 August 2024
Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector