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The expectations game
Peter Brent
7 December 2021
Many Newspoll respondents think Labor will win the next election. But is that good news for the opposition?
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Back to the old normal
Carol Johnson
3 December 2021
Despite the pandemic, Labor and the Coalition are embracing policies from the past
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Western Australia to the rescue?
Peter Brent
1 December 2021
Mark McGowan might be riding high, but how much does that help federal Labor?
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Here we go again
Margaret Simons
25 November 2021
This time the election campaign needs to be reported differently
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Dominant Dan
Tim Colebatch
24 November 2021
A year before the next state election, the Victorian premier and his party are well ahead in the polls
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Should the government “buy Australian”?
Adam Triggs
23 November 2021
A government commitment to buy Australian-made goods and services is not as positive as it sounds
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Confessions of a Reserve Bank board member
John Edwards
16 November 2021
An inquiry into the bank’s past decade might yield interesting results, but it misses Australia’s real challenge
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Whose heartland?
Peter Brent
10 November 2021
Once seen as fabled “Howard’s battler” territory, Parramatta will be looking for a new MP at the next election
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Raising the GST to cut income tax is pointless churn
Adam Triggs
9 November 2021
Australia needs holistic tax reform for the post-Covid-19 era
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How Labor wins
Brett Evans
5 November 2021
Pundits want Anthony Albanese to talk big. But is that the way Labor takes government?
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Is it time for voter ID?
Peter Brent
27 October 2021
The federal government thinks so, but probably for the wrong reasons
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When sharing isn’t caring
Adam Triggs
27 October 2021
Sovereign countries sharing the same currency, euro-style, have been a recipe for disaster. So why has the idea endured?
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Cracking the code
Margaret Simons
25 October 2021
Are Google and Facebook picking and choosing who they’ll deal with under the news media bargaining code?
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Heading south
Rob Manwaring
22 October 2021
South Australia’s Liberals have been creating national headlines for all the wrong reasons
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Taking the pain out of the carbon transition
Mike Steketee
20 October 2021
The Nationals say they’re worried about jobs — but we know from experience how to handle the move away from fossil fuel–based employment
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Getting from here to net zero
Tim Colebatch
20 October 2021
As Australia continues to dodge, the International Energy Agency issues a blueprint for action
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Presidential politics
John Hawkins
18 October 2021
Australia got a new president this week. But it’s not a name you might recognise
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China can easily manage a property crash. That’s the problem
Adam Triggs
12 October 2021
The Chinese government’s power to control the fallout from a property crash is a reminder of just how far it has to go — and how far it has gone backwards — in freeing its…
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Crossbench on a roll?
Peter Brent
8 October 2021
Where do the “Voices” campaigns have their best chances of winning seats at the next federal election?
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Information warfare
Margaret Simons
8 October 2021
Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark?
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Matt Kean’s electric vehicle diplomacy
Giles Parkinson
6 October 2021
Has the NSW environment minister changed the new premier’s mind about climate?
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The twentieth century still has us in its grip
John Quiggin
5 October 2021
A male-dominated political culture runs deep
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An intersection society no more?
Carol Johnson
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
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State of exception
Norman Abjorensen
3 October 2021
The distinctive political culture of New South Wales could reach its apogee — with national effects — when Dominic Perrottet takes the top job
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Time out for a rural moderate
Brett Evans
1 October 2021
What drives Darren Chester, the Nationals MP who has boycotted his own party room?
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Betting on both sides
Adam Triggs
27 September 2021
Largely hidden from view, cross-ownership of competing companies is damaging the economy and fuelling inequality
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Asking the wrong questions about housing
Peter Mares
24 September 2021
It might be ill-conceived, but at least the latest inquiry into housing affordability is generating high-quality evidence
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Going nuclear
Nicholas Stuart
23 September 2021
The AUKUS alliance represents a dramatic step away from multilateral diplomacy. Or is it a first step towards an independent nuclear deterrent?
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Revolving doors and poisoned chalices
Sara Dowse
22 September 2021
Female politicians are no longer rare, and the prospect of a female PM nowhere near as challenging. What seems to matter is how they get there
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Signing up
Hamish McDonald
19 September 2021
Has Australia committed itself to going to war over Taiwan? (And other awkward questions about this week’s submarine switch)
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