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National affairs Hanging off Newspoll Peter Brent 5 April 2016 A bad Newspoll result suggests that Malcolm Turnbull has provoked the economic anxieties of the electorate, says Peter Brent. The question is: why? National affairs State income tax: the idea that could one day fly Tim Colebatch 31 March 2016 Abolished in 1942, revived but never implemented in the 1970s, this might have been the tax reform whose time had come, writes Tim Colebatch. But Malcolm Turnbull’s… National affairs How Turnbull-in-freefall became Malcolm the strategic genius Peter Brent 22 March 2016 The PM knows that voters have a simple question in mind when they enter the polling booth, writes Peter Brent National affairs The prime ministerial eleven Norman Abjorensen 22 March 2016 Fewer than a dozen prime ministers have been ejected from office by voters since Federation, writes Norman Abjorensen. Malcolm Turnbull will be anxious to avoid their fate

National affairs Democratic by name, secretive by nature Marian Sawer 29 February 2016 A new controversy over a program that benefits the major Australian political parties reveals a paradoxical lack of transparency, writes Marian Sawer National affairs Truth and negativity in the negative gearing debate Tim Colebatch 25 February 2016 It’s not too late for Malcolm Turnbull to regain some of the ground he’s lost on tax, says Tim Colebatch. Labor’s plan shows why he can’t afford… National affairs The H.R. Nicholls Society at 30: victim of its own success Dominic Kelly 25 February 2016 After languishing for a decade, the radically deregulatory H.R. Nicholls Society is being revived. On its thirtieth anniversary, Dominic Kelly assessed its legacy for Inside Story National affairs CSIRO and climate: the devil in the detail Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick 25 February 2016 Diary of a Climate Scientist | Cutting funding at this stage of climate change research comes with enormous risks, writes Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

National affairs Yes, we have no bananas Peter Brent 4 February 2016 Paul Keating might yearn to relive his version of political history, but we don’t need to encourage him, writes Peter Brent National affairs Dancing the donation tango James Murphy 4 February 2016 The Australian Electoral Commission’s latest political finance figures show how closely entwined are government and the development industry, writes James Murphy National affairs The parliamentary route to Indigenous recognition Peter Brent 17 January 2016 There’s a way to recognise Indigenous Australians that bypasses our cantankerous founding document, says Peter Brent National affairs Taxing financial services not so simple Rick Krever 13 January 2016 The large returns envisaged by advocates of taxing financial services conflict with the key goal of the GST, argues Rick Krever