Broken trust, revenge politics: Canberra transformed
Governments are weaponising royal commissions, and flawed politicians are making it easy. We are witnessing a permanent change: the judicialisation of politics.
Governments are weaponising royal commissions, and flawed politicians are making it easy. We are witnessing a permanent change: the judicialisation of politics.
This decision should reassure the markets. It gives the central bank its first female governor and a fresh image.
The wheel is turning on education reform. The states are shifting. Much of the media has come on board. The big question concerns our universities: they have ignored the national interest for too long.
The Albanese government seems bedevilled by a contradictory personality. Where is the central co-ordinated economic strategy?
Senior Liberals see corporate Australia moving into the long progressive embrace – it means more distant ties and greater unhappiness for both sides.
This week highlighted Labor’s dilemma as the Coalition hardened its opposition to the referendum. Parliament was heavy with emotion and accusation, and speeches from female MPs confirm bipartisanship is a dead letter.
Linda Burney told parliament the voice wouldn’t give advice on Australia Day. On what basis does the government assert this? How did Burney reach her conclusion?
The cascading events of the week are filled with self-interested politics, false virtue and genuine alarm. There was always a political motive for Labor in pursuing the Brittany Higgins allegation.
The differences between the government and the Reserve Bank are signs of a Labor government with different values from the dominant orthodoxy.
Shooting the messenger rarely solves the problem. Inflation and productivity — not the Coalition — are Labor’s existential threat.
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