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AusAID on Friday formally became part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with the road ahead including a drastic shrinking of the planned aid budget, redundancies, jostling for jobs, and cultural…
After Labor today decided to dig in on carbon pricing, it now seems almost certain that Tony Abbott will have to wait until the new Senate arrives next July to get his repeal legislation through. In opting…
Sometimes you wonder about our priorities. Compare the vast attention on politicians’ misuse of entitlements with the limited discussion, as most Australian troops prepare to depart, about the rights and…
The Australian Electoral Commission, which should be above controversy, finds itself at the centre of a perfect storm. In recent weeks Clive Palmer, albeit without evidence, has blackened its name at every…
It seems barely a week goes by without some commentary on falling literacy standards in Australia. Recently, Western Australian Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan weighed into the debate and laid the blame for…
Bill Shorten can’t win the test he faces on the government’s legislation to repeal the carbon tax - it is a matter of what will do Labor least damage. Tony Abbott is trying to psyche the opposition into…
From its humble beginnings in the tiny middle eastern state of Qatar, Al Jazeera has been a genuine trailblazer, and can be partially credited with kickstarting a news and media revolution in the Arab…
We used to wait 100 days to draw up an initial report card on a government but now we’re down to 50 days. Today is that milepost (since the election) and Tony Abbott made something of it at the weekend…
The government’s forcing Barrie Cassidy out of the position of chairman of the Old Parliament House Advisory Council seems a particularly partisan and graceless act. Cassidy, a senior and respected journalist…
In the US this week there’s been another outbreak of proposals to fix the “patent troll” problem. A new bill from Representative Bob Goodlatte suggests changing the nation’s patent law to punish trolling…
With this week’s announcement of the government’s Audit Commission members and terms of reference, Tony Abbott is starting to get his Rudd-like list of inquiries and reviews on the go. The beginning is…
Winners write the history. Well, sort of. In politics there are always history wars. In his post-election narrative today, Liberal federal director Brian Loughnane, reporting on the fourth national campaign…
Former foreign minister Bob Carr has delivered a strong critique of the former Labor government, in announcing his much-anticipated departure from the Senate after only 18 months. Carr, whose criticisms…
“This legislation will target only criminal motorcycle gang members. Other law abiding motorbike riders have nothing to worry about,” Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie, press release, October…
Tony Abbott’s gay sister hailed it as an “historic day”, after jubilation broke out in the ACT Assembly at the passage of Australia’s first marriage equality legislation. Meanwhile an Essential Poll published…
The government’s Commission of Audit will look at extending “user pays” and encouraging individuals to provide for themselves, in an inquiry directed to achieving a sustainable surplus within a decade…
The Council of Europe’s resolution earlier this month to prohibit the circumcision of infant boys for religious reasons has ignited another round to the “foreskin wars”. This time it’s about the rights…
An eminent business figure will head the government’s five-member Commission of Audit, announced tomorrow, which will comb through government programs for savings and efficiencies. Cabinet will tick off…
Immigration minister Scott Morrison has embraced secrecy with indecent relish, and it is starting to get him into trouble. His policy of announcing boat arrivals once a week, when they are transferred…
The more things change… Labor is making a new start with Bill Shorten but the old ways are alarmingly entrenched in the form of ALP factional power. One small episode tells the wider story. Right wing…