People who claim the law was not broken by the scandal are missing the point. It’s about the conventions and accountability that is embedded in the Westminster system.
- Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
The new prime minister has fewer economic levers to pull than previous Labor governments. That makes taking Australians into his confidence about the need for bolder change all the more important.
An old political maxim is to ‘never waste a crisis’, but sometimes a crisis isn’t enough.
Demographics are making elections about tax concessions, and soon there will be no turning back.
Big social and economic reforms are rare. What’s much more common is tinkering. It happens all the time and shapes the big changes when they come.
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