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December 2021

Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott wants to see productivity lift.

Chanticleer CEO poll: Election policy ideas of our 60 top CEOs

Australia’s top 60 CEOs want to see action to address climate change and skills shortages at next year’s federal election. 

  • James Thomson, Tony Boyd and Edmund Tadros
Anthony Albanese’s climate policy includes simple ideas that worked effectively for Kevin Rudd in 2007.

Labor offers a far more ambitious climate plan

The opposition is offering a much more ambitious climate plan than the Morrison government, with the sorts of tangible policies voters can easily grasp.

  • Laura Tingle
If Bill Shorten had won the 2019 election, in all likelihood he would have attempted to manage COVID-19 in the much the same way as has Scott Morrison.

Libs like Labor as far as eye can see

For all the fuss, the result of next year’s election may not end up being that important when so many policy positions are indistinguishable.

  • John Roskam

November 2021

Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters the behaviour detailed in the report was “appalling”.

Sexual harassment in Parliament at ‘unacceptable’ levels

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said there is no excuse for “appalling” behaviour detailed in a landmark review into federal Parliament’s workplace culture.

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  • David Marin-Guzman
Bob Hawke and Paul Keating: “We tried”.

Where’s Morrison’s ambition for Australia?

Scott Morrison’s transactional government seems merely to want to return to the rut of slow economic growth with no ideas for the future.

  • Craig Emerson
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has endured a messy week in Parliament.

Crunch time for the Coalition as an election approaches

On the week of the 14th anniversary of the demise of the Howard government, Scott Morrison warns his party it could go the same way unless it pulls together.

  • Phillip Coorey
The Prime Minister’s vision of a post-pandemic economy is caught in almost daily hard hat images.

We’ve turned our backs on the lessons of the pandemic

Lockdowns could have changed ideas about welfare funding and the nature of the economy. That was beyond our political class.

  • Laura Tingle
Scott Morrison finds that religion and politics do mix.

Morrison finds that religion and politics do mix

The Prime Minister is promoting not only the importance of protecting religious freedom but also the value of political signalling ahead of the election.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Scott Morrison was slow to denounce anti-vaxxer demonstrations in Victoria.

With Morrison in an unworkable position, Labor sees a chance

With all his backflips, the PM has destroyed his own credibility and his government’s capacity to find any credible policy.

  • Laura Tingle
The Transport Workers Union will be seeking pay rises of at least 3 per cent for its members.

The push is on for 3pc annual wages growth

Employers have warned against increasing salary bills based on pandemic price pressures and want to see productivity gains before accepting union demands.

  • Ronald Mizen and David Marin-Guzman
Paul Keating at the Press Club for the first time in 26 years.

Keating’s troubling take on Taiwan deserves attention

The former prime minister advocates abandoning a democracy of 24 million people. But his critics have to answer some very awkward questions.

  • Laura Tingle
The rift widened after Scott Morrison greeted Emmanuel Macron in Rome.

Between national interest and politics, no real contest

The idea that Scott Morrison should be judged on how he is protecting the national interest, rather than playing the political game, seems to have been well and truly lost.

  • Laura Tingle

Labor takes France’s side on subs

The ALP’s support for Emmanuel Macron against Scott Morrison forgets that in a diplomatic spat between two national leaders, the public will probably back the Australian.

  • John Roskam
Tony Shepherd, left, Josephine Sukkar and Andrew Bragg will attend tonight’s Shepherd Oration in Sydney.

Team Australia needs your big ideas, says Sukkar

States and territories must band together and more Australians should contribute to public life, prominent businesswoman Josephine Sukkar says.

  • Sally Patten
Gladys Berejiklian leaves the ICAC hearings on Monday.

Top silks say ICAC produced strong evidence on Berejiklian

With concerns in Canberra about the NSW corruption watchdog, top lawyers say the Berejiklian inquiry strengthens the case for a federal model.

  • Finbar O'Mallon
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October 2021

Advocates are pleased there is a national strategy, and acknowledge there have been some advances, particularly in the states and territories, on law reform.

Let’s talk about the other national plan the PM released this week

The federal government’s plan to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse seems very long on “stopping” the abuse but very short on “supporting” those who have been abused.

  • Laura Tingle
Scott Morrison leads a Liberal Party whose economic philosophy doesn’t suit the 21st century.

Labor says bring on an election about the economy’s future

The opposition is happy to make the next poll about economic management. The Liberal Party’s philosophy doesn’t suit the 21st century.

  • Tanya Plibersek
There are echoes of the other Hermit Kingdom in Australia’s leadership style, too.

The cities may be opening but Australia’s politics are closing down

The federal government remains its own Hermit Kingdom, where pledges bear no resemblance to reality and the truth is what they say it is.

  • Laura Tingle
Australia’s approach to climate change is coming under increasing pressure.

One small step for climate change, one giant leap for the Coalition

After years of open warfare and fallen leaders, the prospect of a meaningful consensus on climate and coal is tantalisingly close.

  • Phillip Coorey
Scott Morrison confirmed he would attend the Glasgow climate summit.

The most abject failure of leadership in living memory

Prime ministers are supposed to make the case for change and then discipline their governments. Scott Morrison does not fulfil this most basic task.

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  • Laura Tingle

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