The inquiry also found that, facing unprecedented circumstances, the COVID response in Australia was not as effective as it could have been.
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When Australia’s government and opposition argue over how to get to net zero emissions, nuclear power is the flashpoint. The argument against nuclear is stronger, but not for the obvious reason.
There are limits around what Australia might hope to achieve and what it should expect in Beijing, but there is room for cooperation.
The Biden Administration’s signature climate legislation is unleashing a wave of clean energy investment, along with some opportunities and risks for countries like Australia.
Federal politics, the tone of which had seemed better than in the last parliamentary term, once again descended into a toxic mire.
Archer is pushing for extensive reform in a party that is electorally on the ropes and out of office everywhere except her home state of Tasmania.
A new book of essays chronicles the failings of the Morrison government, but leaves much unexamined.
The fifth national survey on sexual harassment in Australian workplaces shows little movement since the last survey in 2018.
One of the national broadcaster’s most urgent challenges will be ensuing its journalists feel management has their backs.
The issues before us are too difficult, too important and too pressing to abandon them to political point-scoring or ideological zealotry.
Directing public funds to native forest logging is bad for the economy, the climate and biodiversity, and will increase bushfire risk.
The Coalition’s climate policy is consistent with a very dangerous 3°C of global warming. But one party is comfortably consistent with keeping warming at safe levels.
Australia’s 500,000 ‘missing’ temporary migrants have exacerbated labour shortages in some sectors. But there’s no need for policy makers to panic.
The Morrison government has walked back on its pledge to establish a federal anti-corruption commission, while its term in government was peppered with allegations of corrupt behaviour.
A scheme devised by the Morrison government to protect biodiversity and create new income for farmers may fail in its aims.
There’s no evidence the Australian government’s so-called ‘Big Stick" power pricing law have achieved anything, or were ever needed.
Josh Frydenberg says halving the fuel excise will save a family with two cars $700. Our calculations show for most households it will be less.
The 2022-23 budget is the result of a good plan, well executed. But whichever party next takes government must close the deficit gap – without resorting to austerity.
The budget forecasts and unemployment numbers show Josh Frydenberg’s COVID support spending has paid dividends.
There is still an election to be fought, of course, but looking back from today it is not clear what the government’s legacy is – or might become.
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