is a professor at the University of Canberra’s faculty of business, government and law and the author of Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers.
One has to feel for Chalmers. Not since the global financial crisis in 2008 has a budget’s framing been so difficult, so great is the energy price shock on the Australian and world economies. Could this end up being as bad as the GFC? Could it be even worse?
A win for One Nation would give the party a significant boost, helping to build on its already considerable momentum ... Barnaby Joyce would have a companion in the chamber, serving notice to the Coalition and Labor that the threat One Nation poses is no longer so remote.
Australia cannot hold the weight of our diversity and claims for equality if there is not both a consensus and a commitment to what being Australian means. That is the first question we must ask ourselves: Who are we?
There is a view in the engine room of the federal government that the real leader of the opposition at the moment is not Angus Taylor but United States President Donald Trump. No one has done more to put Anthony Albanese’s government on tenterhooks than the mercurial incumbent at the White House.
In its response to this global fuel crisis, the Coalition has picked up the Trump administration’s fervent cry of ‘Drill, baby, drill.’ The most appropriate response should be: ‘Think, baby, THINK!’