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This election is one of the worst I’ve seen. Here’s the one thing we can do to fix Australian politics

I think both sides of politics are treating us like mugs. Maybe like the mugs many of us have allowed ourselves to become.

  • Ross Gittins

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Election campaign. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the Davenport Strikers Soccer Club in the seat of Braddon. The Federal election will be held on Saturday 21st May 2022. Photographed Wednesday 18th May 2022. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 220518 ausvotes22. With MP Gavin Pearce - Liberal MP for Braddon. Photo shows the PM tripping into one of the kids on the field whilst playing soccer with them.

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

The number one rule for political leaders on the campaign trail is simple: never take a backward step. You never know what you’ll step into.

  • Tony Wright
Teal independents (from left) Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggall and Kylea Tink.

Be more civil, you racist: Why insults should not be banned in parliament

The teals want to raise the tone of debate, but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

‘Charlatan’? Aussie politicians are #%!* when it comes to insults

Given the predicament our nation is in, it would be reassuring to know our leaders were at the top of their game. Judging by the quality of their insults, we’re in deep trouble.

  • Michelle Cazzulino
Tony Staley with former prime minister John Howard.

Tony Staley: The last of the Liberal hard men

Tony Staley was a tough and canny political operator who read the classics and was inspired by poetry. Even Labor’s Graham Richardson was in awe of his audacity.

  • Tony Wright
Can politics build anything anymore?

Has it been a bad week for the Voice? Yes and No

Dutton’s demands for detail have hardly delivered a killer blow, but they have changed the atmospherics.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Steve Smith hits out.

Australia does England slowly

On a hot Adelaide Day, Australia was out to sap England’s will by slow degrees. But it was easier said than done.

  • Greg Baum
Dr. Hewson plonks himself down with (left to R) Mrs. Jan Merry and daughter, Katherine, 3, Mrs. Erica Holmes and her grandson Jay Jay. 3mths. Campaign Trail Begins. Dr. John Hewson, leader of the federal opposition travels through Sydney, selling his GST Package. November 22, 1991.

From the Archives, 1991: Dr John’s tax show goes on tour

30 years ago, Opposition Leader Dr John Hewson hit the campaign trail, on a mission to sell his proposed GST. “This is a revolution,” he told the Herald.

  • Tony Stephens
Death duties, hiking the GST and more taxes on housing are on the wish lists of the nation’s top economists.

What needs to be done to fix the tax system?

Death duties, hiking the GST and more taxes on housing are on the wish lists of the nation’s top economists.

  • Shane Wright and Jennifer Duke
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A budget reckoning: How the tax system is failing Australians

Top economists, former Treasury officials and ex-politicians are warning that Australia is fast approaching a fiscal nightmare.

  • Jennifer Duke and Shane Wright

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