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Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas delivers the state budget on Tuesday.

Budget doesn’t do enough to tackle debt

Barely a dent is put in Victoria’s debt burden, and the state government will continue spending big on infrastructure.

  • The Age's View

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Australians must speak up, or the key issues will be overlooked

In these troubling times, we need to raise the standard of public debate.

  • Chris Wallace
Bill Shorten, with wife Chloe, concedes election defeat in May 2019.

Pollsters, beware polite voters. They can turn in the booth

There is much at stake in this election for the opinion pollsters who got it so spectacularly wrong last time.

  • Michael Yabsley

Where’s the vision? The budget is all politics

The sad reality is that Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has swung to hip pocket populism.

  • The Age's View
Healthcare topped Australia’s worry list in 2021

Australia’s five biggest worries in 2021

The coronavirus, especially infection rates, restrictions and economic disruptions, shaped what Australians most worried about.

  • Matt Wade
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a sober warning in Madrid which other nations are taking seriously.

Here in Madrid, the view of Australia's tricky tactics is not pretty

Australia will fight to stop a ban on using an accounting trick to boost its climate change credentials but the diplomatic cost will be high.

  • Frank Jotzo
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Pell leaving court on Wednesday morning.

Suffer the perpetrator: Pell and the twisted inversion of victimhood

Conservatives are supposed to be champions of the rule of law. Not this time.

  • Tim Soutphommasane
The impounded Iranian crude oil tanker, Grace 1, is silhouetted as it sits anchored off the coast of Gibraltar. Australia will join a US-led coalition to protect shipping in the Straits of Hormuz.

Echoes of Iraq: why Australia shouldn't be joining US action against Iran

A former Australian Defence Department secretary warns that US administration officials are itching for a military conflict - and we should stay out of it.

  • Paul Barratt
Most polls predicted a comfortable win for Bill Shorten's Labor Party but were proved wrong on election night.

'Embarrassed' pollster ripped up poll that showed Labor losing election

The actions form part of a phenomenon known as "herding" wherein pollsters massage results to more closely match their rivals.

  • Michael Koziol
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with wife Jenny and children Lily, left, and Abbey, as he claimed victory.

Time to stop polling and start listening: why we got election so wrong

A leading social researcher admits she got it wrong. So did many others, including in the Coalition. What do we learn from it?

  • Rebecca Huntley

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