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The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
Setting targets is one way to attain more female MPs, but it must be accompanied by cultural change.
While both parties may have set out to modernise and renew their ideologies, the ALP’s and Labour’s attempts to marry the old and new instead precipitated two separate identity crises.
In a nation labelled secular, many of our elected representatives have strong religious ties, and this affects they way they the country is run.
If we ban all donations from individuals and corporations, funding for political campaigns must come from elsewhere.
For Bill Shorten, cuts to Sunday penalty rates could become a pale version of WorkChoices.
Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention…
Here’s why Labor’s figure for school funding is too high.
Politics podcast: Chris Bowen on Labor’s budget responses
Labor is 'taking a bit of time' before announcing its position on the company tax cuts, Chris Bowen says.
Only one in five believe they will be better off from the budget.
Labor needs to convincingly discredit the 2017 budget to the point that the government cannot use it to help restore its standing in the eyes of voters.
The Prices and Incomes Accord was a series of agreements between Labor and the ACTU where unions would moderate their wage demands in exchange for improvements in the ‘social wage’.
Viewed from today’s post-Cold War and secularised society, the conflicts at heart of the Labor split appear curiously arcane. Yet its ghosts remain.
Australia could be the ‘energy capital of Asia’ but instead it is going backwards, Bill Shorten will say in a speech on Thursday.
Labor's edge over the government in the polls has seen the party stay united. But it has not stopped speculation about whether frontbencher Anthony Albanese would be a better leader of the party.
Check out our interactives showing the total donations to Australia’s major parties in 2015-16, who the biggest donors to the parties were, and how donations to parties have changed in recent years.
Labor’s project of economic transformation hit some harder realities as Paul Keating assumed the top job. And a new push on remaking Australia stirred a brooding reaction of its own.
In times of budgetary constraint, the cost of Australia's welfare system has been regarded by many in the Coalition as a drag on economic growth. Labor's Jenny Macklin has a different take.
The government is targeting Kimberley Kitching, Labor’s controversial Senate replacement for Stephen Conroy.
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