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Explainer: what are Labor and the Coalition promising on an anti-corruption commission and what is the government’s record?

ECONOMY
Explainer: what are Labor and the Coalition promising on an anti-corruption commission and what is the government’s record? Yee-Fui Ng, Monash University As the election is looming, the Labor Party has placed integrity issues prominently on its party platform. Labor leader Anthony Albanese claims the Morrison government cannot be trusted, and...
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It’s not the economy, stupid, it’s climate change

ECONOMY
Alan Kohler: Anthony Albanese would have spent the past three nights in his hotel rooms staring, red-eyed, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, memorising economic data; he will now presumably be a statistical encyclopedia, an economic savant. Not knowing the unemployment rate on Monday was a genuine shocker, from which...
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Beware the ‘mog’: If only politicians realised playing God is not their job

FUA AWARDS
Queensland’s politicians need be less god-like and more business-like when it comes to “mogging” their public servants writes Robert MacDonald. Once you start looking for lack of government accountability, you can find it everywhere – even in the very machinery of government. You’d think by now the experts would have worked out...
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The fantasy that haunts our cult of the fallen

BIASED HISTORY
By Douglas Newton According to the fantasy, there is a ‘moral obligation’ toward dead Anzacs – but not to democratise the decisions that would throw live Anzacs into war. There is no doubting the sincerity of the grief felt by the bereaved, those who will gather at the myriad sites of...
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Tony Windsor Rorters, rooters and the country’s lost decade

ECONOMY
While the major parties play the traditional, convenient, presidential-style blame games, and the media placidly comply, a growing number in the electorate are clamouring for politics to be done differently. Old stuff is not working for them. They have put up with a decade of policy inertia, ranging from...
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Independents versus a broken system

ELECTIONS
Independents versus a broken system John Hewson Despite the efforts of the media to discredit the independents’ movement, attempting to tag them as “fake independents” and otherwise minimising their coverage, there should be little doubt that many conservative members sitting in what they had thought were “safe” seats are already recognising...
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Libs spin in Debts and Dragons

ECONOMY
Libs spin in Debts and Dragons SMH's Peter Hartcher writes If you stand in front of Old Parliament House in Canberra, looking across Lake Burley Griffin, you’ll see that there’s an unobtrusive yet serious-looking office building on each flank. The building a few hundred metres to your left was created for...
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Farcical scenes as media banned from Deves event

ELECTIONS
DODGING QUESTIONS Voters and Liberal Party members were kept waiting more than 45 minutes to meet controversial candidate Katherine Deves last night as advisers schemed for her to avoid the media waiting at the Forestville RSL. The event, with Liberal MP for Mackellar Jason Falinski, was billed as a ‘‘politics in...
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Could the 2022 election result in a hung parliament? History shows Australians have nothing to fear from it

ELECTIONS
Could the 2022 election result in a hung parliament? History shows Australians have nothing to fear from it AAP/Mick Tsikas Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University and David Lee, UNSW Sydney The first two weeks of the 2022 election campaign have increased the possibility that neither of the two major parties will gain...
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Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament

BUSINESS
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Andrew Wilkie, MP for the Tasmanian seat of Clark, has “lived” a hung parliament. In 2010, Wilkie did a formal “deal” to support Julia Gillard. When...
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