National affairs
1 February 2021
Crime has plummeted in Australia, and new research suggests some surprising causes
National affairs
1 February 2021
Covid-19 has been good to governments, but will the effect last?
National affairs
26 January 2021
The case for changes to Australia’s honours system has become overwhelming
National affairs
17 December 2020
Casual employment can be fixed, but not the way the government wants to do it
National affairs
16 December 2020
Why we’re still trying to understand the “Morrison miracle” (and other great polling failures)
National affairs
14 December 2020
Signs suggest that Australia hasn’t learned from its experience with China
National affairs
14 December 2020
On climate change, the world is moving on around us
National affairs
8 December 2020
The government’s media reform green paper raises big issues. But should it be thinking even bigger?
National affairs
7 December 2020
By grossly underestimating the number of Australians stuck overseas, the government is glossing over one of its biggest failures
National affairs
7 December 2020
Focusing on the outer suburbs could lead Labor into deep trouble
National affairs
3 December 2020
Overall, it worked. But there’s still much to be done
National affairs
1 December 2020
Like most by-elections, the weekend’s vote in Groom hasn’t changed the wider electoral equation
National affairs
30 November 2020
Labor won’t win elections by targeting some groups at the expense of others
National affairs
30 November 2020
The government’s retirement income review has challenged outmoded views about superannuation
National affairs
27 November 2020
Has the NSW Coalition provided a winning formula for Anthony Albanese and his colleagues?
National affairs
25 November 2020
A budget for Covid recovery ventures into contentious territory
National affairs
23 November 2020
Years of progress in reducing poverty will be wasted if we don’t change how financial markets treat developing countries during the pandemic
National affairs
20 November 2020
Could this be the mental health report that finally brings change?
National affairs
20 November 2020
Who is being helped by the continuing pressure on Bernard Collaery and Witness K?
National affairs
18 November 2020
A new defence agreement with Japan raises as many questions as it answers
National affairs
18 November 2020
Covid-19 has rewarded some and disadvantaged others — but federal Labor faces the same old post-defeat pressures
National affairs
16 November 2020
And that creates an opportunity for Labor
National affairs
14 November 2020
Behind Joel Fitzgibbon’s coal-fired resignation lies a decades-old battle
National affairs
12 November 2020
With the federal government appointing a special war crimes prosecutor, it’s time to confront broader questions about armed interventions
National affairs
9 November 2020
President Biden will buy Australia time, but the structural forces that produced the Trump presidency won’t go away
National affairs
6 November 2020
Are the polls really less accurate these days?
National affairs
6 November 2020
Is Labor right to be worried by Scott Morrison’s choice to head the Office of National Intelligence?
National affairs
5 November 2020
Business figures are taking advantage of ASIC’s internal troubles to undermine reforms recommended by the banking royal commission
National affairs
2 November 2020
Researchers have identified how to help struggling households more equitably
National affairs
2 November 2020
In six short weeks, the world has comprehensively left Australia behind on climate