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National affairs Stephen Duckett 31 March 2017 Tomorrow’s drug price reductions are good news, but more can be done to control spending on pharmaceuticals
National affairs Tim Colebatch 28 March 2017 Fortunately, though, there are four things we can do in the short term to alleviate the problem National affairs Lesley Russell 21 March 2017 A promising federal government homelessness strategy dissipated for lack of funding and political will National affairs Rob Hoffman 21 March 2017 Election results in Western Australia and Austria show how unpopular populist policies can be National affairs Peter Mares 17 March 2017 Injustices sometimes need to be resisted unlawfully, as critics of Sally McManus should know
National affairs Tim Colebatch 16 March 2017 A true story of government controls, utility privatisations, and the incentive to export
National affairs Tom Greenwell 15 March 2017 New PISA results confirm that the social makeup of schools affects the performance of individual students National affairs Paul Rodan 13 March 2017 Mark McGowan’s win in Western Australia is good news for Bill Shorten – though not necessarily in the way you’d expect National affairs Tim Colebatch 13 March 2017 WA Labor should immediately tackle the upper house gerrymander – and the federal Coalition needs to use the budget to get back on track National affairs Graeme Orr 13 March 2017 Urged on by an independent MP, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s government has shown how real-time disclosure can work
National affairs Peter Brent 10 March 2017 The resurgent One Nation faces a reckoning this Saturday night in Western Australia
National affairs Stephen Duckett 7 March 2017 As other countries have shown, there are better ways to save half a billion each year in health spending National affairs Norman Abjorensen 7 March 2017 The battle dividing the Liberal Party dates back to Labor’s electoral success during the second world war National affairs James Murphy 6 March 2017 Forget what you’ve heard about infrastructure – it might be time to put the politics back in National affairs David Clune 6 March 2017 The WA premier has drawn the wrong lesson from Mike Baird’s 2015 election win
National affairs Tim Colebatch 3 March 2017 By forcing Malcolm Turnbull to behave like Tony Abbott, the Nationals have gravely damaged the government. But Black Jack McEwen showed how that can change
National affairs Lesley Russell 1 March 2017 The federal government’s plan for “stepped care” needs fine-tuning National affairs John Quiggin 27 February 2017 Critics of extended formal education misunderstand the demands of the modern workplace National affairs Jane Millar & Peter Whiteford 27 February 2017 The Centrelink overpayments controversy highlights shortcomings in social security reforms in Australia and Britain National affairs Tim Colebatch 24 February 2017 Labor is creating unrealistic expectations by refusing to accept the decision of the umpire it created
National affairs Norman Abjorensen 22 February 2017 Like his predecessors, Malcolm Turnbull needs to find his inner storyteller
National affairs Peter Brent 21 February 2017 Malcolm Turnbull will be the next victim of the growing gap between Liberal Party diehards and the election-deciding majority National affairs Tim Colebatch 17 February 2017 Malcolm Turnbull is staking his government on policies that are widely opposed and hard to defend National affairs Peter Kennedy 14 February 2017 A blizzard of factors makes the election result next month hard to pick National affairs Rob Hoffman 10 February 2017 The prospects aren’t good for Cory Bernardi and the parties of the disaffected Australian right
National affairs Giles Parkinson 10 February 2017 The Coalition is chasing the wrong target, despite all the evidence
National affairs Jane Goodall 8 February 2017 There’s plenty of politics on ABC TV’s weekly evening marathon, but is the national broadcaster taking it all seriously enough? National affairs Peter Brent 8 February 2017 Cory Bernardi’s defection is unlikely to excite voters or inflict lasting damage on the government National affairs Norman Abjorensen 8 February 2017 This week’s events underline the fact that Liberals are still struggling with the question of how they can be more than simply an anti-Labor party National affairs Marian Sawer & Anika Gauja 1 February 2017 New rules for parliamentary entitlements will improve transparency and accountability. But do they go far enough?