When is a secret meeting for lobbying not a secret meeting?
Ed Straw and Ray Ison write in Pearls and Irritations ICAC urges ban on secret meetings with lobbyists. In other words, ICAC practitioners imagine a...
Energy prices leave few winners — while the rest of us...
Bernard Keane writes in The GuardianSeveral long-term trends are now intersecting in a way that is going to deepen economic divisions in Australia, as...
Morrison government failed to show cashless debit card scheme works, auditor...
Another auditor-general review of the Coalition’s Cashless Debit Card (CDC) trial has revealed the lack of any useful evaluation of the trial within the...
New corruption body won’t stop the rorts
Barry Ferguson wrote Competing for Influence: The role of the public service in better government in Australia and argues today:
Since it was promised by...
Pork-barrelling ‘a hair’s breadth’ from bribery, ICAC to be told
Grants scheme was ‘industrial’ pork-barrelling
An infamous Berejiklian government grants scheme that resulted in millions of dollars flowing mostly to Coalition electorates has been described...
University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis to head Albanese’s PM&C
Albanese appoints former University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis to head PM&C
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Anthony Albanese is bringing in an outsider, former University...
Anthony Albanese’s ministry contains more surprises than expected following a factional...
Katharine Murphy The Guardian's Political editor writes
Labor has now secured 77 seats, which means Anthony Albanese will govern with a majority in the 47th...
Address the mess Albo – fossil super profits and soaring energy...
Compare Denmark in the 1980's
Denmark's State revenue
State revenue from the North Sea activities derives from three elements.
State revenue from the North Sea activities derives...
Can the politics of ‘nice’ finally break News Corp’s outrage machine?
Will Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s shiny “gentler, kinder politics” break News Corp? Or will News Corp, once again, triumph over the paradigm of nice?...
