January
- Opinion
- Australia Day
Extend, don’t change the date of Australia Day
There is a way to recognise our Indigenous heritage, British foundations and immigrant history by marking them over two days – the 25th and 26th of January.
July 2024
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Labor’s pledge is a bulwark against identity politics
Some say Labor’s caucus discipline is outdated in modern, multicultural Australia. In reality, it is more vital when individualism has infected the party of late.
January 2024
- Opinion
- Greens
Labor needs to call out the cynical, posturing Greens
The Greens are increasingly shaping policy in Australia, but very little accountability is demanded on them by other parties.
- Opinion
- ALP
Labor must hush the leadership chat
The government should respond to narrowing polls by taking the economic reform debate up to the opposition.
December 2022
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Labor has headaches, but Liberals have the real brand problem
The middle-class base of the Coalition has become more socially progressive and less religious over time, and a change is needed to win over young voters.
June 2022
- Opinion
- Air travel
What’s the point of Alan Joyce if he can’t make planes run on time?
Without minimum service standards imposed by parliament, Qantas risks becoming a cheaper and nastier version of Aeroflot with million-dollar executive salaries.
May 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Why Labor should take it easy on the Voldemort jibes
The government must not get drawn into another battle of personal sledging. An electorate with bigger problems is over that kind of politics.
February 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Albo can lose by sticking to the Labor script
ALP-friendly issues such as Medicare haven’t worked at the last three elections. Labor can’t avoid talking about the economic and fiscal repair issues that matter to swinging voters.
November 2021
- Opinion
- Federal election
This election is about who you trust not to change your life
Labor wants the contest to be about shaping the future. Yet the PM’s focus on the economy and jobs is closer to public sentiment.
April 2021
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
PM wins war, but risks the peace
The Morrison government’s failures on vaccines, jobs and wages leave it vulnerable to voters who sense a broken bargain.
February 2021
- Opinion
- JobSeeker
To find the third way on welfare, follow the Germans
To avoid the jobless getting tangled up in Centrelink, we need a scheme that keeps workers and companies connected and avoids unemployment spikes.
January 2021
- Opinion
- Federal election
Super is the Liberals' new cut-through
The Coalition used franking credits in 2019 to convince voters Labor was after their money. Now they have another plan.
July 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Ideological gaslighting is damaging fight against virus
For all the shaming of the Andrews government, it is decades of free-market utopianism that has hurt the national capacity to deal with COVID-19.
April 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Rebuilding post-virus Australia is not a cue for socialism
Labor must not overreach itself with a great shift to the left. But we can still build a much better nation than the one we have now.