Dismissing the outcry over Anika Wells’ travel expenses could make things worse for the government – but stoking it could do ...

I promptly called William (not his real name, et cetera). The place should never have been listed, he explained, as it was ...

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The government’s deal with the Greens on environmental law reform is a political masterclass that leaves the Coalition ...

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Making sense of a new reality and the return of power politics – a Quarterly Essay extract For almost a decade now, the world’s two most powerful countries have been competing over which of them will ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...