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National affairs Budgeting in boom time Tim Colebatch 2 May 2018 Cautious in parts, extravagant in others, the Victorian budget is built on a boom National affairs Life, death and the pollsters’ art Peter Brent 25 April 2018 Newspoll’s revised figures suggest that Malcolm Turnbull did better last year than we thought. It’s another reason to give up our obsession with polls National affairs What’s in a name? Peter Brent 19 April 2018 What went wrong when Family First was absorbed by the Australian Conservatives — and what does it say about how people vote? International Right war, wrong weapons Lesley Russell 13 April 2018 America’s opioid crisis won’t be solved by the Mexican wall and capital punishment. Meanwhile, deaths keep rising, and Australia isn’t immune

National affairs Small world Peter Brent 28 March 2018 Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line? National affairs Is something rotten in the City of Melbourne? James Murphy 28 March 2018 By the time a new lord mayor is elected in May, quite a few electors will have voted twice National affairs Dirty deeds, done for considerable amounts of money 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 ASEAN and Australia peer down from the summit Graeme Dobell 19 March 2018 Shared hopes and fears were on display at the weekend’s meeting in Sydney

International Is America’s gun debate different this time? Lesley Russell 15 March 2018 As US gun-control efforts continue, there are signs of a shift in opinion and resolve Books & arts What are we talking about when we talk about China? John Fitzgerald 15 March 2018 Books | Is China a different kind of democracy, or simply a self-preserving one-party state? National affairs Australia today: slow growth, high debt Tim Colebatch 13 March 2018 Behind the day-to-day swings in the economic data are worrying longer-term trends International Beijing’s black box Kerry Brown 9 March 2018 Decision-making among the Chinese elite is as hard to read as it’s ever been, and the uncertainty extends to the character of the president himself