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National affairs Chris Bonnor 28 March 2018 By promising special funding deals for Catholic schools, Labor is reviving the earliest deal-making in the “state aid” battle. What did that compromise actually achieve?
National affairs Stephen Mills 23 March 2018 One week, two political campaign scandals: Cambridge Analytica’s data-harvesting and Labor’s funding scam in Victoria highlight the temptations facing parties desperate to win… National affairs Sophie Black 23 March 2018 #MeToo leapt to prominence by naming names, but it also kicked off a quiet revolution in the media (including a long-overdue New York Times obituary for Charlotte Bronte) National affairs Michael Gill 22 March 2018 Finance’s share of the Australian economy is higher than ever, leaving us vulnerable to a growing global liquidity bubble National affairs Graeme Dobell 19 March 2018 Shared hopes and fears were on display at the weekend’s meeting in Sydney
National affairs Andrew Beer 19 March 2018 With the debate over renewable energy largely settled, the new South Australian government is looking to smaller companies to help meet its economic goals
National affairs Tim Colebatch 18 March 2018 Voters swung to Labor in Batman and South Australia, but with very different results National affairs Peter Brent 16 March 2018 With third parties playing a big role, this weekend’s votes in Melbourne and South Australia are unusually hard to pick National affairs Rob Manwaring 15 March 2018 A close result seems increasingly likely this Saturday, and that means preferences will again be vital National affairs Robert Milliken 14 March 2018 With coal on the way out, the state’s prospects are bright, says the businessman who backs Labor’s energy plans
National affairs Tim Colebatch 13 March 2018 Behind the day-to-day swings in the economic data are worrying longer-term trends
National affairs Kerry Ryan 8 March 2018 The Sunshine State continues to make its mark in Melbourne’s closely watched federal by-election National affairs Tom Greenwell 7 March 2018 The former NSW education minister says Australia has a cultural problem when it comes to schooling National affairs Dean Ashenden 5 March 2018 Labor’s shadow education minister faces the problem of working out why school reform has failed, and what a federal education minister could do about it National affairs James Panichi 28 February 2018 An unconventional election campaign reached Melbourne this month. What was on offer, and why?
National affairs Kate Crowley 26 February 2018 The Liberals are ahead in the polls, but the state’s electoral system could create a chance for the opposition
National affairs Marija Taflaga 26 February 2018 Can the big political parties regain a sense of legitimacy, or have the conditions that sustained them come to an end? National affairs Tim Colebatch 23 February 2018 The International Monetary Fund gets some things right and some things wrong — but you wouldn’t necessarily know which from the coverage it’s had National affairs Norman Abjorensen 23 February 2018 Over almost a century, relations between the two major non-Labor parties haven’t always been smooth National affairs Brendan Coates & Trent Wiltshire 22 February 2018 Flawed research has fuelled a mistaken view of the best way to assist less well-off households
National affairs John Quiggin 22 February 2018 A failed experiment in market-led education needs to be buried once and for all
National affairs Rob Manwaring 22 February 2018 Despite a few hiccups, the Xenophon insurgency continues to grip the state National affairs Paul Rodan 20 February 2018 How did Australia’s upper house evolve into a part-elected, part-nominated body? National affairs Abul Rizvi 20 February 2018 Drastically reducing net migration would be neither easy nor wise, says a former senior official National affairs Peter Brent 19 February 2018 The mystery is why Emma Alberici’s article was published in the first place
National affairs Chris Bonnor 19 February 2018 Rising averages mask deepening inequalities in Indigenous education
National affairs Peter Brent 17 February 2018 The week’s events raise the age-old mystery: exactly what is this strange beast? National affairs Brett Evans 16 February 2018 Barnaby Joyce isn’t the only political figure in a spot of personal bother National affairs James Murphy 16 February 2018 A looming court case is further evidence of a deep divide within a once-powerful election-winning machine National affairs Tim Colebatch 15 February 2018 The bookies are backing the Greens at next month’s by-election in inner-Melbourne. But the contest is more complicated than punters might think