There’s a wider trend towards linking the energy and climate portfolios, and not before time – the race is on towards a low-carbon economy, and joined-up policy gets faster results.
Joe Biden and Malcolm Turnbull shake hands during a joint press conference in Sydney on Tuesday.
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Before the election Malcolm Turnbull had no trouble calling himself a feminist but now his party has had its woman problem highlighted by the result. There will only be 13 women among the 60 (assuming…
Double time: Josh Frydenberg has added environment to his energy portfolio.
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Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne and the Nationals are winners in Malcolm Turnbull’s post-election reshuffle, which has promoted only one new conservative Liberal face to the frontbench.
The government’s first priority should be to improve conditions in offshore detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
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The key challenge for the returned Turnbull government is to formulate policies that present Australia as a good global citizen willing to take its fair share of refugees.
University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor Nicholas Klomp and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Mike Baird is battling opposition from the greyhound industry, some in the Nationals, and the Labor Party.
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Mike Baird is coming under enormous pressure over his bold and controversial reform – to put an end to greyhound racing in the state from mid-next year.
Labor’s ‘Mediscare’ campaign played to an existing belief about the Coalition’s health policies.
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Malcolm Turnbull returns to the helm with a wafer-thin majority and a significant element in his government who still oppose climate action - can he defy the odds and serve up some credible policy?
Malcolm Turnbull reaffirmed the government’s intention to put its industrial relations bills back to the parliament.
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To understand how Australia’s political uncertainty is being seen elsewhere, we reconvened our panel of experts from the UK, US, Indonesia and NZ to respond to the election results.
Australia’s political leaders were silent on a number of key issues during the election campaign.
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The problem confronting political parties is that the people in leadership positions are intellectually and emotionally ill-equipped to grasp the complex transformation in human affairs now under way.
Joint sittings of federal parliament are rare, usually only taking place for addresses by foreign leaders.
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Now that we have had the double-dissolution election, the next step is for the government to attempt to pass the industrial relations bills through the House of Representatives and Senate again.
There is a strong political and economic case for the government to cut its support for private insurance and to restore Medicare to its original role.
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There is much talk, after the close election and the substantial vote for the bit players, that the message voters are sending politicians is that they want them to work together for the national good…
Australia is fortunate to have had the recent Labor minority government to draw lessons from.
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More than a week after the election, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has formally conceded defeat, quickly followed by Malcolm Turnbull welcoming the Coalition’s victory.