National affairs
14 February 2020
Scott Morrison will always have 18 May 2019, but is that enough?
National affairs
13 February 2020
The latest Closing the Gap report brings cause both for scepticism and for guarded optimism
National affairs
10 February 2020
Which generation has the biggest stake in the absurdities of the generation game?
National affairs
6 February 2020
Australia continues to flounder, but help could be on the way from the new president of the European Commission
National affairs
6 February 2020
Can infectious disease outbreaks help strengthen Australia’s response to another health crisis?
National affairs
5 February 2020
Australia entered the year in bad shape, and things will only get worse without a change in direction
National affairs
4 February 2020
Will a Victorian MP save the National Party from itself?
National affairs
30 January 2020
The National Party minister has become the scapegoat for systemically poor administration
National affairs
29 January 2020
With governments failing to act, divesting from carbon-based fuel investments is more important than ever
National affairs
24 January 2020
Revelations about Clearview AI’s harvesting of online images challenge us all to think carefully about this technology’s impacts
National affairs
22 January 2020
The NSW environment minister wasn’t speaking only on his own behalf
National affairs
17 January 2020
Will it take international pressure for the Coalition to finally budge on climate change?
National affairs
8 January 2020
Twitter’s roiling, and even the real world is wondering how the prime minister burned through his political capital so quickly
National affairs
3 January 2020
The prime minister’s political authority has fallen away more quickly than anyone could have imagined
National affairs
3 January 2020
Some supporters of Jeremy Corbyn think Brexit explains Labour’s defeat. But the evidence is scant
National affairs
1 January 2020
Hundreds more deaths will result from the particulates created by Australia’s current crop of bushfires
National affairs
30 December 2019
There’s more than one good reason to lift the payment to jobseekers
National affairs
23 December 2019
The former premier’s reputation has been unfairly distorted by his opponents
National affairs
16 December 2019
Generational divides don’t explain much, though attitudes to climate and culture seem to be exceptions
National affairs
9 December 2019
Do bureaucratic shake-ups have the benefits prime ministers are hoping for?
National affairs
9 December 2019
Australian policymakers don’t share technology companies’ belief in a borderless world
National affairs
5 December 2019
Business and household demand shrank by 0.3 per cent in the year to September, leaving government and exports to fuel Australia’s modest per capita growth
National affairs
4 December 2019
The tide of populism doesn’t always run the same way
National affairs
2 December 2019
Despite the trade minister’s response, there’s nothing unusual about Emmanuel Macron’s demand for progress
National affairs
29 November 2019
What’s the best way to make households more conscious of their water consumption?
National affairs
25 November 2019
Loss of confidence in political parties could translate into disengagement from our region
National affairs
22 November 2019
Our immigration success story didn’t happen by accident — but is it under threat?
National affairs
21 November 2019
The world is watching a David and Goliath battle in the Federal Court
National affairs
20 November 2019
Longer-term voting patterns in the city’s western suburbs highlight the flaws in much post-election analysis
National affairs
18 November 2019
Australia’s most transformative prime ministers were in the right place at the right time