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Getting schooling wrong
Dean Ashenden
27 September 2024
The
Monthly
and the
Saturday Paper
are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
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Antitrust’s Big Tobacco moment
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
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There’s a Wills but is there a way?
Peter Brent
24 September 2024
Bob Hawke’s old seat is among the Greens’ best prospects, but the redistribution isn’t quite the gift it looks
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The enemy within
Mark Baker
17 September 2024
The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong
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Australia’s failed jobs experiment
Mike Steketee
16 September 2024
The Keating government’s changes to employment services – intensified by its Coalition successors — have bred inefficiency and fragmentation
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Increasing JobSeeker is good economics
Adam Triggs
3 September 2024
The arguments against a rise in JobSeeker have proliferated, but none of them stands up to scrutiny
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No longer fit for purpose
Paddy Gourley
30 August 2024
It’s time for a reborn immigration department outside Canberra’s bulging home affairs portfolio
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The ASX’s CHESS checkmate
Helen Bird
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?
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Peter Dutton’s road to nowhere
Peter Brent
28 August 2024
The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession
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Slippery slopes
Chris Bonnor
26 August 2024
NAPLAN’s scorecard has been back in the news, but could those test results be hiding a more important failure?
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Manufacturing’s security blanket
Saul Eslake
26 August 2024
Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector
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The new Asian order
Sam Roggeveen
23 August 2024
Rather than American or Chinese ascendancy in Asia, we’re likely to be facing a “long in-between.” Where does that leave AUKUS?
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Crossbench 2025
Peter Brent
10 August 2024
How many independents and small party MPs can we expect in the House of Representatives after the next election?
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Poor at politics, strong on policy
Peter Mares
2 August 2024
Andrew Giles’s record as immigration minister stands up remarkably well
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CFMEU’s cartel question
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
20 July 2024
Amid this week’s welter of allegations is a thorny matter of cartel law
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History’s burdens
Tony Walker
17 July 2024
Labor’s foundational support for Israel still colours its attitude towards Palestinian statehood
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The whisper in the west
Peter Brent
13 July 2024
Glenn Druery’s days are over, but Labor will still be worried about key Western Sydney seats
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Kim Williams’s ABC
Denis Muller
27 June 2024
The ABC chair wants to see the broadcaster standing out in a fragmented media landscape
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An election-funding first, but at what cost?
Graeme Orr
25 June 2024
Could South Australia’s plan for fully publicly funded elections sever a last link between parties and people?
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No guts, no glory?
Peter Brent
24 June 2024
Peter Dutton isn’t the first opposition leader to opt for a big-target strategy. The precedents aren’t encouraging
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Walking backwards at Nine
Tim Burrowes
12 June 2024
The broadcasting and publishing giant is gripped by a crisis more than six years in the making
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Reckless resistance
Mike Steketee
6 June 2024
Opponents of renewable energy are combining Nimbyism and ideology to oppose projects that would significantly benefit rural communities
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Poll position
Peter Brent
31 May 2024
One of Australia’s pollsters got very close to the actual result in 2022. Can they do it again?
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Too many bedrooms, not enough homes
Peter Mares
22 May 2024
Local councils and NIMBYs continue to cop much of the blame for housing shortages. But the full story is a bit more complicated
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Truth rears its ugly head
Michael Maley
21 May 2024
We all want political advertising to be truthful. The devil is in the detail
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That fickle budget bounce
Peter Brent
17 May 2024
All eyes will be on the next round of opinion polls. But it’s the ones that come later that count
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The changing fortunes of politicians’ schools
Chris Bonnor
3 May 2024
Before federal MPs vote on a new national schools agreement they should look at what’s happened to the schools they once attended
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For whom the pendulum swings
Peter Brent
3 May 2024
The job of Liberal leader once swung from the party’s left to its right. But a lot has changed in recent years
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Think-tanked
Hamish McDonald
22 April 2024
As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education
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Electoral shadows
Paul Rodan
17 April 2024
Past election results offer good news and bad for the federal government
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