By continuing to see policies that affect women in economic rather than social terms, both major parties are offering little in the way of improved gender equity.
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Labor’s proposed competition policies are based on incorrect assumptions about market power and fail to address inequality.
Increasing Australia’s role in the billion-dollar global space industry has hardly raised a mention in this year’s federal election campaign.
Malcolm Turnbull has said that if he had not become leader, the Coalition would have lost this election ‘very resoundingly’ under Tony Abbott.
Malcolm Turnbull is overwhelmingly more trusted than Bill Shorten to lead the country in the final round of Indi focus group research among ‘soft’ voters in the seat.
Was Malcolm Turnbull right to say that 300,000 new jobs created in the last calendar year, with almost two-thirds held by women?
Putting a human rights issue to a national vote is a crude means of legalising same-sex marriage.
Liberal higher education policy is obscure; perhaps deliberately so. But the conclusion is clear. Unless students are required to pay significantly more, universities will face major cuts.
There is a a great mass of the electorate that are rarely polled accurately and rarely let their views known, yet determine electoral outcomes.
The Coalition, Labor, and the Greens are making substantial commitments to projects that not only lack proper business cases, but are not even on the Infrastructure Australia priority list at all.
For an election that is supposed to be based on who will manage the economy better, the debate has been disappointing.
The government’s potential strength and Labor’s vulnerability were on mutual display on Sunday as, after seven gruelling weeks, the campaign entered its run to the finishing line. In these last days, with…
Labor’s policies, costed by the Parliamentary Budget office, pass scrutiny - but like the Coalition, fail the test of real budget repair.
Labor has unveiled its costings, showing it would have a deficit of around $16 billion higher across the forward estimates than that shown in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
Malcolm Turnbull has warned voters of the need for stable government in uncertain times, in a pitch to counter Labor’s fear campaign and the temptation for electors to lodge a protest vote.
There is a coterie of politicians on both sides who are trusted, or at any rate supported by, the pokies lobby.
On the back of Labor’s election launch on Sunday, the party waged a Medicare scare campaign that has reverberated through the whole week.
The involvement of youth in politics suggests politicians are not tackling issues of concern to young people.
Polls suggest that Nick Xenophon’s team will win a bag of Senate seats. Along with a re-elected Andrew Wilkie, and the Greens, will there be enthusiasm for gambling reform in the next parliament?
Health is always a key factor in deciding which way to vote. So what have the major parties promised in health? And what could these changes mean for consumers?
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