Bernard Keane writes in Friday's CrikeyMuch of Australian politics is broken at the state level. Pervasive corruption and integrity problems pervade the Victorian and Queensland governments. The Berejiklian government in NSW was characterised by pork-barrelling, cover-ups and serious integrity questions about its premier. Yet all continue to effectively deliver...
Jason Murphy writes in CrikeyScott Morrison wants to let you raid your super to buy a house. This is a naked vote ploy for frustrated first home buyers. That’s a group of young, tertiary educated people — a group containing the kind of Labor voters who might swap to...
Christopher Warren writes in CrikeyThis past weekend’s white supremacist terrorist killings in Buffalo in upstate New York demonstrate a worrying truth: the News/Fox outrage machine has morphed into something far more dangerous for democracy.
It no longer acts to convert the curious undecideds through slanted news. Its “war on woke”...
Bernard Keane laments the state of the media pack in Crikey.Australia’s unemployment rate reached 3.9% in April, delivering a good headline for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg in the dying days of the campaign.
The magic number of 3.9% was actually reached in March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said,...
Tim Moore writes in CrikeyThe last week of Scott Morrison’s campaign has been marked by two significant television interviews, one on the ABC on Monday night’s 7.30 by Leigh Sales, and the other the following night by Tracy Grimshaw on Nine’s A Current Affair.
The 7.30 outing had the greater pre-event hype, partly due to...
Roundabouts and car parks? The major parties are promising much on transport, but they should stick to their jobs
Marion Terrill, Grattan Institute
In the seat-by-seat slugfest that is the federal election, transport infrastructure is once again at the forefront. Small, hyper-local projects are a favourite of both major parties this...
Margot Saville writesIt’s been impossible to buy a plain teal-coloured T-shirt anywhere for days. Organisers for Allegra Spender’s Wentworth bid have scoured websites for more shirts to screen-print and give to volunteers.
With 1165 of them, and more signing up in the final week, the Spender campaign has soaked up...
By Fred ChaneyThe former British prime minister Harold Macmillan may never have said, “Events, my dear boy, events”, in response to the question of what made the job of prime minister difficult or pushed governments off course. Nonetheless, it expresses a truism. Both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese might...
Beta blockers were the order of the day for Labor types in Canberra as Anthony Albanese — riding queasily on a new poll suggesting his lead is melting fast — arrived at the National Press Club for the traditional final-week address.
For the first time in 50 years, this engagement will...
Andrew Brown, AAP writes in Crikey
Anthony Albanese says axing $750 million in government grants will go some way to repairing the budget left in a mess by the Liberal-National coalition.
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra just three days before the election, Mr Albanese said an...