Politics

The image of Australian bodies loaded into an industrial train in Eastern Europe forces us to confront questions about what kind of power we want to be.

Kicking to death a few aged-care workers on $16 to $20 an hour is hardly the stuff of major reform.

Scott Morrison’s abuse of language ties the asylum-seeker debate in Orwellian knots.

The Newman government’s moves to control the Crime and Misconduct Commission threaten a return to pre-Fitzgerald days.

It’s a form of political nihilism ... We’re being governed as if we were a student union that had been captured by a clique.

On the eve of the Indonesian elections, the victory of a dangerous relic of the Suharto regime is worryingly likely.

Even if all these facts were true, they did not provide an even remotely adequate cause for war.

The government is shortchanging our foreign aid responsibilities.

Has the Coalition employed ‘strategic racism’ to win elections?

As parties have had to chase an increasingly swinging vote, their policies have become more pragmatic.