Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers gave his reply to the budget on Monday morning in a speech to the House of Representatives. It was largely...

It seems that everyone is now a weekend infectious diseases specialist. This attitude is egged on by the media. Every misplaced attitude...

A few weeks ago, trade minister Dan Tehan was announcing that signature of the UK/Australia free trade agreement was imminent. Now we are...

It is hard not to think that if Mathias Cormann was still the finance minister, the budget would have looked a lot different. More Peter...

At the beginning of March, the minister for agriculture, David Littleproud quietly announced the establishment of a $23.5 million...

The government leadership group has been cock-a-hoop after their big-spending re-election budget was generally well received. But there...

Anthony Albanese’s budget reply speech adopted the same formula as last year, beginning with a trip down memory lane recounting his...

Squirrelled away in the budget portfolio papers for the department of agriculture in Tuesday night’s budget was an amount of $196.9...

Australia is on the road to recovery according to Josh Frydenberg’s budget speech. There are now more jobs in the economy than existed...

In the latest edition of ‘The Saturday Paper’ emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU, Hugh White wrote an article entitled...

The deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Guy Debelle, told an audience of economists at the Shann Memorial lecture on...

The great diplomatic president of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt - who emphasised the need for statesmanship over war - coined the...

Consultant economists, Deloitte Access Economics, have published their pre-budget monitor and predicted that the budget will show the...

Reports out of India are horrifying. There are now over 400,000 new cases of COVID 19 a day and serious cases are many more than the...

In 2014 the Abbott government declared there was a debt and deficit disaster. At the time the net debt was around $250 billion. In 2021...

On Wednesday, Shine Lawyers launched a class action lawsuit against the Commonwealth government on behalf of 6000 part-aboriginal...

India is experiencing the world’s worst Covid outbreak. CNN reports that on Monday India had 352,991 news cases. This was the highest...

Last week’s climate summit was described as a moment of ignominy for the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Commentators...

For months the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has been subjected to a tirade of criticism by the media on issues such as the vaccination...

On Thursday, Australia's national cabinet announced that there would be restrictions on departures to Australia from high-risk countries....