11+ hour, 51+ 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, 10+ 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…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) It is no great stretch to imagine who Paul Keating has in mind when he describes the state of Australian politics. “Timidity,” he says, “is like a virus in the bloodstream.” He says: “My view of the country was bigger…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (974+ words) The Saturday Paper Article text size: This control adjusts article text size. For broader accessibility options, please use your browser or device text scaling settings. Two cyclists collide at an intersection and a man is thrown over the handlebars of…...

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, 1+ day ago   (609+ words) This patriotism was understandable to me. It was a time when the US, having come through the many social revolutions of the ’60s and being a world leader in graduate education in most fields, was much admired around the globe. I…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1198+ words) As the NRL season gets down the pointy end, the author speaks to the prime minister, and reflects on what’s lost when clubs prioritise commerce over community. “Never bet on anything that can talk.” Such prosaic wisdom warrants accurate attribution,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1682+ words) In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the climate minister warns the Greens against teaming with the Coalition to kill a new offsets plan for forests. Chris Bowen says it would be a betrayal of native forests for the Greens…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (300+ words) The Bush Deep podcast furore was more than a cringeful moment for the prime minister – it was a display of how political satire has shifted with the fracturing of the media landscape. In the late 1980s, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) In recent years, two cases of mass murder and the killing of police involved individuals living off-grid whose contempt for authority had deliriously metastasised. Both the Train clan, who ambushed police and killed a neighbour in Wieambilla, rural Queensland, in…...