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Winning the battle, still fighting the war
James Panichi
24 February 2021
Facebook’s problems with Australian regulators are far from over
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Companies after Covid
Pamela Hanrahan
23 February 2021
Has the government’s dislike of class actions coloured its view of listed companies’ responsibilities to investors?
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“An affront to anyone who believes in democracy”
Benjamin Reilly, John Phillimore, Sarah Murray and Martin Drum
23 February 2021
Former Labor leader Jim McGinty isn’t the only one concerned about Western Australia’s electoral system
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What Texas’s blackouts tell us about Australia’s energy market
John Quiggin
22 February 2021
Power failures in the United States highlight system problems half a world away
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Late nights, high stress and plenty of booze
Judith Ireland
19 February 2021
Is parliament at last recognising the deep problems in its own work culture?
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Death, taxes and the strange history of rebel micronations
Harry Hobbs
18 February 2021
Former One Nation senator Rod Culleton’s attempt to unite “sovereign citizens” recalls earlier efforts to step outside Australian law
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Promoting equity is one thing, achieving it is another
Chris Bonnor
18 February 2021
Good intentions won’t solve the problem of Australia’s increasingly segregated school system
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Big-target strategy
Peter Brent
17 February 2021
Has Labor written the Coalition’s script for the next election campaign?
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The weight of history
Paul Rodan
16 February 2021
What do past results tell us about the next federal election?
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The circuit-breakers
Catherine Bennett
15 February 2021
Are short, sharp lockdowns working?
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The sad decline of economic partisanship
Adam Triggs
15 February 2021
The Labor and Liberal parties are in a race to the bottom in too many areas of economic policy
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Rising prices, plummeting rents
Peter Mares
15 February 2021
Australia’s housing market goes crazy — again
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The moderates’ revenge
Robert Milliken
12 February 2021
Craig Kelly is just the latest hardline conservative to cause trouble within the Liberal Party, and he’s unlikely to be the last
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Australia’s costly no-price carbon policy
Peter Brent
11 February 2021
Australia’s climate policy failures are set to create a new revenue stream for major trading partners
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Labor’s industrial relations gamble
Carol Johnson
11 February 2021
History shows where Anthony Albanese’s IR push is likely to run into trouble
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Bagman, buddy or career diplomat?
Hamish McDonald
9 February 2021
A new president in the White House means a new American ambassador in Canberra
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The Sámi’s voice
Harry Hobbs
8 February 2021
Does Sweden’s Sámediggi offer lessons for Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament?
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If the future is more super, then the future is greater inequality
Mike Steketee
5 February 2021
The superannuation guarantee shouldn’t rise until the system is made fairer
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A long view of the short squeeze
Pamela Hanrahan
2 February 2021
The Reddit army has upped the ante for market regulators, including Australia’s
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Where have all the criminals gone?
Adam Triggs
1 February 2021
Crime has plummeted in Australia, and new research suggests some surprising causes
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Early-election watching
Peter Brent
1 February 2021
Covid-19 has been good to governments, but will the effect last?
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The Order of the day
Frank Bongiorno
26 January 2021
The case for changes to Australia’s honours system has become overwhelming
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How casual became predictable
David Peetz
17 December 2020
Casual employment can be fixed, but not the way the government wants to do it
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The polls, and nothing but the polls
Peter Brent
16 December 2020
Why we’re still trying to understand the “Morrison miracle” (and other great polling failures)
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Turning away from Indonesia
Edward Aspinall
14 December 2020
Signs suggest that Australia hasn’t learned from its experience with China
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Punching above our weight looks like getting us knocked out
John Quiggin
14 December 2020
On climate change, the world is moving on around us
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Television on the line
Giles Tanner & Jock Given
8 December 2020
The government’s media reform green paper raises big issues. But should it be thinking even bigger?
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Overlooked, undercounted and over there
Adam Triggs
7 December 2020
By grossly underestimating the number of Australians stuck overseas, the government is glossing over one of its biggest failures
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The worst of both worlds?
Peter Brent
7 December 2020
Focusing on the outer suburbs could lead Labor into deep trouble
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Australia’s $50 billion economic rescue
Tim Colebatch
3 December 2020
Overall, it worked. But there’s still much to be done
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