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National affairs
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Can Whitlam’s children bury the hatchet?
Shaun Crowe
23 November 2018
With minority government a possibility in Victoria, the Greens and Labor might need to find a way of working together
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Is Victoria reverting to type?
Tim Colebatch
16 November 2018
Labor is a clear favourite to win this month’s election. But minor parties and independents are also on the march
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A broken record of quality journalism
Matthew Ricketson
15 November 2018
With Fairfax shareholders voting next week on the merger with Nine, it’s a good time to consider how well the company’s journalism has weathered a period of enormous change
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The evolving threat of lone-actor terrorism
Chris Winter & Ramón Spaaij
15 November 2018
What does the research tell us about this increasingly common phenomenon?
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Rescuing the republic
Peter Brent
14 November 2018
The Voice and the republic might just add up to a winning combination
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“We are not in the aviation business, we are in the mobility business”
Melissa Sweet
12 November 2018
Could there be such a thing as a healthy airport?
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Labor’s reset in New South Wales
David Clune
12 November 2018
The state party’s new leader stands in a long tradition, but it’s not clear what that will mean in practice
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Would the real Malcolm Turnbull please stand up?
Jane Goodall
9 November 2018
As a politician, the former prime minister remains an enigma that
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couldn’t crack
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The (reassuring) truth about retirement incomes
Brendan Coates & John Daley
9 November 2018
Despite what the industry is saying, we don’t need to lift the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent
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How Nine and Fairfax sat the wrong test
Margaret Simons
9 November 2018
There’s a good reason why the ACCC didn’t block the Fairfax–Nine merger, and it tells us why government policy needs to change
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Playing to his weaknesses
Peter Brent
8 November 2018
Being prime minister is harder than Scott Morrison might have thought
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Policy on the run
Abul Rizvi
8 November 2018
Gladys Berejiklian wants fewer migrants for New South Wales. But that’s not a cost-free option, says a former senior immigration official
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Is manufacturing on the rise?
Jeff Borland
7 November 2018
New data suggests that jobs in manufacturing are bucking a decades-old trend. But are we comparing like with like?
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Migration by numbers
Peter Mares
5 November 2018
What is going on inside Australia’s immigration program? New government figures tell only part of the story
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Don’t mention the war
Dean Ashenden
5 November 2018
Like the Australian War Memorial itself, many of its critics share a fundamental blind spot
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When law and order isn’t enough
Paul Rodan
2 November 2018
The polls aren’t looking good for Matthew Guy’s Liberals in Victoria
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The addictive drama of Newspoll
Peter Brent
31 October 2018
Down this fortnight, up the next: how a nation is gripped by a name and its numbers
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When safe means vulnerable
Peter Brent
25 October 2018
The Wentworth result might not change the Labor–Coalition equation, but it’s a reminder that seats can suddenly fall to independents
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Why Labor should break the refugee deadlock
Peter Mares
25 October 2018
The opposition should swallow Scott Morrison’s bitter pill. But it also needs a longer-term plan
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Healthcare’s out-of-pocket crisis
Jennifer Doggett
24 October 2018
Fast-rising medical expenses are restricting access to healthcare and increasing long-term costs
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Big tent, narrow visions
Norman Abjorensen
22 October 2018
Malcolm Turnbull’s critics were looking through the wrong lens, and Saturday’s defeat was just the first of the aftershocks
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That’s what national polls are for
Peter Brent
20 October 2018
An earth-shattering result in the inner-city seat recalls an earlier independent triumph – and its aftermath
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A by-election that really matters
Peter Brent
20 October 2018
The betting markets are off the mark as Wentworth voters begin casting their ballots in a vital contest
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The narrowcaster
Marion Maddox
19 October 2018
Did Scott Morrison have a different audience in mind when he floated the idea of shifting Australia’s embassy to Jerusalem?
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Loose in the top paddock
Peter Brent
19 October 2018
Is Barnaby Joyce the electoral asset his supporters believe him to be?
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The politics of prevention
Melissa Sweet
16 October 2018
Australia’s innovative preventive health agency was closed down by the Abbott government. How — and in what form — should it be revived?
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A year can be a very long time in politics
John Rickard
16 October 2018
This time in 2017, Australians were voting on marriage equality. What happened next?
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In the shadow of America’s deficit
Saul Eslake
15 October 2018
With the US–China trade war escalating, the risks of a downturn are starting to overshadow the positive economic news
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Stranger than fiction
Graeme Smith
10 October 2018
Two journalist–novelists compare notes on Chinese espionage
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Margaret Thatcher’s message to the future
Mike Steketee
10 October 2018
The past is catching up with a climate-sceptical Australian government
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