Politics

By linking federal funding to silence on law reform, the attorney-general is turning his back on community feedback.

If a crisis as profound and inexplicable as family violence doesn’t deserve the rigour and the review of a royal commission, then what on earth does?

One-fifth of the money taxpayers fork out for public broadcasting goes to a company owned by a Canadian superannuation fund.

The budget reveals the government’s inability to put itself in the shoes of its electorate.

The Abbott we see at any particular moment seems only the Abbott that's necessary for now. Another shift is always on the cards.

We should learn from our experience in Solomon Islands how to better balance Australia’s strategic interests with regional commitments.

I feel ill every time our blueblood treasurer calls our social security system a 'cargo net'

George Brandis and his ideological wingmen are leading the government to a spectacular defeat on 18C.

The deficit levy proved Tony Abbott's talk about good governance and proper process, about being a government of no surprises, was empty rhetoric.