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National Affairs Conflicted cuts at the Audit Office Kate Griffiths and Danielle Wood 20 October 2020 The federal agency that revealed the sports rorts scandal has had its funding cut — again National Affairs Senator Abetz’s loyalty test Yun Jiang 20 October 2020 Chinese Australians are being singled out by overwrought politicians Correspondents Licensed to govern Colin James 19 October 2020 Armed with a historic mandate, can Jacinda Ardern bring about the change she promised in 2017? Essays & Reportage Lessons from the lockdown Catherine Bennett 19 October 2020 Is Melbourne emerging from its second lockdown wiser than it went in?

International Politics behind plexiglass Lesley Russell 8 October 2020 The vice-presidential debate maintained the focus on the US administration’s disastrous mishandling of the pandemic National Affairs High-vis, narrow vision Danielle Wood & Kate Griffiths and Tom Crowley 7 October 2020 The budget overlooks the hardest hit in favour of the hardest hats National Affairs The government versus the economists Tim Colebatch 7 October 2020 A range of effective and equitable initiatives are missing from this year’s budget National Affairs Is a $213 billion budget deficit unethical? Peter Mares 7 October 2020 The government needs to do more to share the risks during the recovery

National Affairs Roadmap to nowhere Tristan Edis 2 October 2020 By 2030, according to the government’s own figures, Australia will have spent three decades making almost no progress in reducing emissions National Affairs Looks like Killara, votes like Cessnock Tim Colebatch 1 October 2020 Will the well-heeled Australian Capital Territory once again vote for the left? Correspondents Violence’s cheerleader Nicole Hemmer 1 October 2020 The debate gave us a clearer idea of what a second Trump term could look like National Affairs Step one, a liveable income John Quiggin 30 September 2020 Unlike the proposed tax cuts, there’s a guaranteed way to stimulate the economy