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Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government will take on more ‘good debt’ to boost productivity when current spending is under control.
Amending Section 18C would send a ‘dangerous message’, according to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
The Australia-Japan foreign and defence ministers’ ‘two-plus-two’ talks, due to be held in Japan before Christmas, are being deferred because of Marise Payne’s recent illness.
The actions of the Coalition government speak louder than words in its commitment to open government.
A ragged COAG meeting has ended with a split over a new competition agreement and public swipes at Malcolm Turnbull and his government.
The sale of the vast Kidman pastoral empire to the joint venture Outback Beef has passed the foreign investment hurdle.
The University of Canberra’s Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The Turnbull government has announced it will strengthen the law relating to family violence.
Despite briefly being able to dine out on the legislation passed before parliament wound up last week, Malcolm Turnbull is headed to a not-very-happy Christmas.
As the curtain falls on the year, one of the most powerful players in the new parliament looks back on his successes.
After the national accounts showed the economy going backwards in the September quarter, Scott Morrison called for “partners” in the parliament to drive the government’s economic plan through.
Politicians need to stop meddling with education policy and invest in teachers if Australia’s science, mathematics and reading standards are to improve.
The Turnbull government has slammed the door shut on an emissions intensity scheme for the electricity sector, in a demonstration of the power of the conservative forces in the Coalition.
Pauline Hanson has unleashed a new attack on her rebel senator Rod Culleton, declaring that things had ‘gone to his head’.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has lashed out at the prospect of the Turnbull government scrapping one of his signature programs, the Green Army.
In the final fortnight of the parliament for the year the government clinched some deals on major pieces of legislation.
It’s no wonder Malcolm Turnbull has been desperate in parliament’s final fortnight of 2016 to get some legislative wins.
The backpacker tax deadlock has been broken with a deal between the government and the Greens for a 15% rate that will be lower in effective terms because backpackers will keep extra superannuation.
Malcolm Turnbull didn’t actually trade his first-born this week but it felt like it might come to that. In a whatever-it-takes frame of mind, the government conceded a great deal to get its legislation…
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Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
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