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It's the poll result that will shock the political class more than any other. A government has ...
This is not a give-away budget, but its purpose is to force Tony Abbott to nominate what he will ...
Like a man running along the wrong side of the river, Tony Abbott needed to cross the industrial ...
Something highly significant has happened in just the past week: it's become clear the tide has ...
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey thought he was having a good week. And he was, right up until the ...
In the past few decades we have been joined by ever-growing numbers of long-distant wanderers.
Michael was outraged. Earlier in the week I'd written that anyone earning more than $210,100 a year ...
Labor's attack on Abbott might be better focused on showing him as weak and irresolute, not a wolf
It is simplistic to think we are entering a new conservative stage in our national politics.
Stephen Smith tried to pass the Goldilocks test on Friday when serving up Australia's latest ...
With the baby bonus to be scrapped from next March, there are plenty of Australians wondering what ...
Julia Gillard is so much better when not trying. Stuck behind a lectern, droning away at some ...
Yes, it's arrived. We have arrived at that time in the cycle of public life where everything is ...
The government must dance to Geoff Shaw's tune.
Old timers have seen it before. A rising union star climbs a step up Labor's ladder onto the ...
A clever budget? More likely it gives the Coalition room to wind back the welfare state.
Save the budget or save the economy? That may be the conundrum that tests the Coalition's mettle.
If by a miracle Labor wins the poll, it must deal with the Treasurer.
Former Liberal premier Dick Hamer simultaneously had three big infrastructure projects on the go: ...
Australia's first referendum in 14 years promises a small, but significant change to the ...
Premier Barry O'Farrell is a proud follower of Robert Menzies (1894 to 1978), the founder of the ...
Another 400,000 homes in NSW will be promised super-fast broadband in a new three-year plan for the ...