The Albanese government’s emissions reduction scheme under fire
The Greens have been signalling for months they want the Albanese government to stop new coal and gas projects. . A point of contention...
Has the CSIRO Sold its soul
Australia’s new Labor government is committed to a transition to clean energy and a cut in emissions of 43% by 2030. But the MP...
Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s...
Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality
Correspondence published by inquiry show then Human Services head told federal watchdog she...
Robodebt inquiry is laying bare the horrific human cost of cheap...
CEO of the Australian Council of Social Security Cassandra Goldie argues that:
Playing politics with people’s lives – literally – should sicken us all.
I have...
The Robodebt Royal Commission is hearing damning evidence of public sector...
Laura Tingle 7.30's chief political correspondent writes.
The commission was also shown minutes from a meeting between the DHS and PwC in March 2017, in...
Jacinda Ardern’s graceful departure is the personification of modern democratic ideals
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as prime minister of New Zealand and will be leaving office on 7 February.
World leadership has rarely seen anything like...
Robodebt and the transmission of shame
Kathryn Campbell stifled a laugh when, in September 2018, she recalled the rollout of the robodebt program during her time as head of the...
You pay millions for these imbeciles to encourage conspiracy theories and...
We get so used to the bonkers shit that goes on in the Australian Senate that it starts to seem unremarkable. Frustrating, exasperating, eye-rolling,...
The worst government in our history
John Hewson writes the lesson of the recent history of the Liberal Party is that it doesn’t learn from history.
It learnt nothing from the...
Reframing tax policy to reset the rules of the monopoly game
Monopolists and rentseekers have been running rings round the democratic fiscal state for decades. It is obvious to everyone that the game is rigged....
