16+ hour, 36+ min ago   (489+ words) Labor is in a curious position: it has a policy that works, but it cannot say so. Treasurer Jim Chalmers should be able to say: yes, house prices are coming down slightly; they need to. That is the point of…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1524+ words) A busy parliamentary week was overshadowed by two dramatic contrasts in political integrity and accountability. On the one hand there was Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and on the other Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie. They were not drawn into a direct…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1333+ words) It wasn’t a great week for politics and policy in Australia. A grotesquely unfair special GST deal for Western Australia, originally crafted by Scott Morrison, was cemented in by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, despite advice that it’s a stinker and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1054+ words) The government’s refusal to release an assessment of the impact of NDIS reforms on women has drawn criticism that their safety and security has been sacrificed to meet Labor’s budget goals. The passage of reforms to slash the costs of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1502+ words) One of Anthony Albanese’s cabinet colleagues says government is like riding a bike: “If you don’t keep pedalling, you can lose your balance and fall off.” In the second week of this parliamentary sitting, we saw plenty of furious pedalling....