If Jim Chalmers can deliver on his big picture,Australia will win on a global scale. If not,the title of Christopher Malouf’s Archibald Prize portrait will be vindicated.
Why would Anthony Albanese and his smart economists,Jim Chalmers and Chris Bowen,want to reverse the bipartisan policy of the past 40 years and take us back to the future?
The possibility that federal politicians could be docked up to 5 per cent of their salary for misbehaviour is a welcome and long-overdue reform.
Paul Keating’s incredible economic chutzpah supercharged Australia’s prosperity. But he has become an apologist for China,and that may poison his legacy.
Alcohol is a force in our national politics,but the way Australians read the act of drinking depends both on the times and the person,and the ways the two are entangled.
Universal health care was a proud Labor achievement. At 40,Medicare is in better shape than its US and UK peers,but there are cracks in the ageing edifice.
There’s no more familiar voice in Australian broadcasting than John Laws. Now almost 90 and still on the air,he has lost none of his characteristic alpha male belligerence.
Scepticism about politics can be healthy,but Australians need to go easy on their trademark cynicism.
WA Premier Roger Cook has officially handed the keys to former prime minister Bob Hawke’s childhood home over to the National Trust,which could see it used for short-say accommodation.
Resistant inflation numbers show that the Reserve Bank’s loan rate hikes punish the wrong spenders
For Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson,to visit one scene of inhumanity and show support for the Israeli actions while ignoring Ukraine smacks of a desperate attempt for relevance