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What the ACCC thinks about journalism
Margaret Simons
30 July 2019
Much has been written about what the regulator thinks of the big digital platforms, but what do its recommendations mean for reporting and analysis?
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Home truths about political advertising
Michael Maley
30 July 2019
Efforts to bring truthfulness back into election campaigns face real practical difficulties
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How the treaty momentum is growing
Harry Hobbs
24 July 2019
Governments across Australia are negotiating formal agreements with Indigenous communities
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Why I support a Voice to Parliament
Murray Gleeson
21 July 2019
An edited extract from the former chief justice’s speech this week
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Which crisis of trust?
James Frost
18 July 2019
Are concerns about Australians’ faith in politics and democracy being exaggerated by poorly presented research?
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A Voice to Parliament: how the critics are wrong
Kate Galloway
17 July 2019
At heart, this is an inclusive rather than divisive proposal
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Adani’s silent partners
John Quiggin
16 July 2019
With no further approvals needed, Adani’s Carmichael mine is all set to go. Or is it?
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The slippery slope of officially sanctioned lying
Mike Steketee
12 July 2019
It’s time to act before deceptive campaigning gets completely out of control
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Is Newstart really the pacesetter Scott Morrison says it is?
Peter Whiteford
10 July 2019
Whichever way you measure it, Australia’s unemployment benefit is far from being “one of the best safety nets, if not the best, of anywhere in the world”
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Can Mr Kevin07 create a winning leader?
James Murphy
9 July 2019
Tim Gartrell faces quite a battle, and not just with the re-elected government
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Nearly three decades of economic growth — and yet…
John Edwards
8 July 2019
The Reserve Bank is running out of ways of tackling Australia’s economic malaise
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The secret ballot with an antipodean twist
Peter Brent
3 July 2019
The Australian Ballot almost took over the world, but it might not be entirely our idea after all
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Whatever happened to spectrum reform?
Giles Tanner & Jock Given
1 July 2019
Should we renovate the process we have for allocating the airwaves, or knock it down and start again?
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NSW Labor’s best intentions
David Clune
30 June 2019
The long leadership race has given Gladys Berejiklian’s government valuable breathing space
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Quantitative easing: new or old?
Selwyn Cornish
27 June 2019
Some commentators want the Reserve Bank to try something new and radical. But how different would “quantitative easing” really be?
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Voting for the future
Peter Brent
26 June 2019
Secrecy and convenience don’t always coincide in Australia’s highly accessible electoral system
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The numbers game
Abul Rizvi
26 June 2019
The federal government’s big-ticket pledges rest on surprising population projections
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WIN or lose for rural viewers?
Gary Dickson & Margaret Simons
21 June 2019
Does the regional broadcaster’s decision to close more newsrooms breach its licence obligations?
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Indigenous affairs: how we’re choosing by not choosing
Michael Dillon & Neil Westbury
19 June 2019
We should all be aware of the great cost of inaction
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Hyperbole meets hypocrisy when governments take on (some) leakers
Rodney Tiffen
19 June 2019
There are leaks that are properly investigated, and leaks that aren’t
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Custody battle
Russell Marks
14 June 2019
Nearly thirty years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission, the Northern Territory finally has a custody notification service. But is there devil in its detail?
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Liberals taking liberties
Norman Abjorensen
13 June 2019
The longstanding conflict between the Liberal Party’s conservative and liberal wings continues
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Department of dysfunction
Abul Rizvi
13 June 2019
On immigration policy, this is a big-target government
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If we won’t fix negative gearing, then what?
Peter Mares
7 June 2019
Part of Labor’s housing strategy could be adapted to lift affordability, and might just appeal to the government
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Notes on an election
Peter Brent
7 June 2019
Dust settled, our correspondent pokes through the rubble
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Shooting the messengers
Hamish McDonald
6 June 2019
This week’s AFP raids fit a pattern of crackdowns under the Coalition
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When good economics loses its way
Adam Triggs
4 June 2019
Modern monetary theory pushes a useful economic insight beyond plausibility
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The Keneally blunder
Peter Brent
4 June 2019
Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues?
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Pell’s judges
Jeremy Gans
3 June 2019
This week’s Court of Appeal hearing won’t necessarily be the last word
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Labor’s numbers game
Paul Rodan
30 May 2019
With most results in, the electoral landscape is looking challenging for the federal opposition
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