The former prime minister leapt upon poll results showing most Australians want to avoid picking sides in any conflict between the United States and China.
Kim Carr has joined other Labor luminaries in warning about the party’s prospects but does not want it to follow the Greens into “woke” policies.
The immediate decision before Albanese was how to deal with two important heads of state asking for attention at almost the same time. Why couldn’t he satisfy both?
Sir Niall Ferguson says Australia’s influence will be crucial in the West’s attempts to curtail China.
You would have to have a heart of concrete to deny the PM his fun,but some voters are genuinely miffed at a time when Albanese is becoming increasingly unpopular.
Insults,and our ever-changing tolerance for them,speak volumes for the incoherence of our politics.
The federal government will use the figures to argue it is keeping inflation at bay.
The Reserve Bank’s most iconic governor says businesses are going bust and the RBA is too focused on only one factor in its charter.
Some votes can be passed with murmurs of assent,and some with shouts of dismay. Three decades ago,a historic vote at the Labor National Conference was met with joy and dancing.
The teals want to raise the tone of debate,but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.
Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi says Paul Keating’s description of the self-governing island as “Chinese real estate” was a “stupid statement”.