The Conversation’s political experts react to the 2017-18 budget’s key measures in the areas of welfare, foreign aid, defence spending and more.
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The Conversation’s experts annotate Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech.
Successive governments have come to see the potential political gain in selectively leaking details of the budget before the big night.
Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have clearly resolved to move onto the offensive politically by bringing down a budget that is both populist and expansionary.
There is lingering anger among journalists made redundant that expertise and experience seem to have become disposable assets in newsrooms.
The Channel 7 show Million Dollar Cold Case has seen Victoria Police dispense with the practice of not naming suspects until they are charged – a potentially fraught strategy.
Image-based abuse, more commonly known as ‘revenge porn’, affects many Australians from across diverse communities and in different types of relationships.
It is gambling, especially online and mobile, that has come into focus as sport’s most potentially damaging byproduct.
The Turnbull government is desperately trying to develop a more convincing economic narrative around good economic management, nation-building and fairness.
Investing in staging sport is ultimately a matter of turning the entire host environment into a stage.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The French must choose between two visions – one from Macron that looks externally to EU partners in trade and security, or one from Le Pen that closes France’s borders and yearns for a ‘Frexit’.
When the public are deeply cynical and distrustful, and have turned their back on a government, can that government change its image and the voters’ view?
Imagine, for a moment, if there were no independent journalists left to decipher PR spin.
It is often assumed that police are at higher risk of suicide than other members of the community because of the stress involved in their jobs. But the picture is more complicated than that.
Change Agents: Ending the gay panic defence
In this episode of Change Agents we look at the abolition of the gay panic defence across Australia.
There is reason to suggest new reforms, such a banning credit bets and establishing a self-exclusion register, will have some impact in helping to tackle problem gambling online.
All the awareness campaigns have had little effect on the ‘garden variety’ mental illness that’s causing most of the disability and death.
Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will have his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump in New York.
While minor right-wing parties are advancing specific policy agendas, Australia’s major right-of-centre force appears to be grappling with internal divisions about its policy direction.
As the government seeks to rein in the excessive expectations of what it can do to make housing more affordable, Malcolm Turnbull is throwing everything at his energy security policy.
The Tampa incident in 2001 has formed the underlying basis of the approach to asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia by boat ever since.
The Mabo decision changed Australia’s concept of land ownership. It was a divisive yet important step toward recognising Indigenous rights and establishing native title.
As North Korea continues to antagonise the US and its allies, the prospect of war hangs in the air.
Both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have gained from the very deep disaffection of the French electorate with its traditional political representatives.