Australia’s 2022 election: toxic politics and a lack of ambition
By Barry Jones
This is an edited extract of the Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture to be delivered this evening at the Accountability Round Table, Melbourne...
Is it the economy or not, stupid?
Yesterday’s shocking inflation figure and the impending interest rate rise have brought the election campaign firmly back into economic territory, with a renewed focus...
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Liberal party MP Trent Zimmerman says he and fellow moderate MPs “prevailed” over the...
Carbon state: Coalition changed rules to save fossil fuel donor tens...
By Bernard Keane
The failed Gorgon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project could be spared more than $100 million in costs after the Morrison government...
Annabell Crab mussings
Western democracy was so much easier 300 years ago, when it was illegal for journalists to report the goings-on in Parliament.
In those days, politicians...
A teal “Independents” fight on their hands
By Rachel WithersToday is not a great day to be a so-called modern Liberal fending off a challenge from a progressive independent. After LNP...
Pacific failings continue to plague Morrison as Labor unveils regional strategy
By Bernard Keane Crikey's Politics EditorCapitalising on Scott Morrison’s persistent problems over his Solomon Islands debacle, Labor maintained the unusual foreign policy theme of...
‘This is a hose you have to hold’: Turnbull accuses Morrison...
Malcolm Turnbull has accused his former colleagues of failures on Australia’s regional security, taking a potshot at Morrison directly – saying “this is a...
Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon...
By Katharine MurphyWith Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things
If...
