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 government is having problems managing its relations with three disaffected groups: women, the Indian and the Chinese diasporas. This...

The prime minister’s speech to the conference of churches on the Gold Coast has sparked a contest between people of faith and...

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....

On Wednesday morning, BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonnell (no relation) appeared on ABC Radio National to discuss Trevor Watson’s...

The government and the opposition are converging on a consensus on climate change. In a speech delivered on Tuesday, Anthony Albanese...

On Monday, the Prime Minister announced that a royal commission would be established to inquire into veterans’ suicides. This underlined...

When the national cabinet meets on Monday, one of the items on the agenda will be the process for re-opening the borders. As one senior...

Even before she appeared before the Senate inquiry this week, Christine Holgate had engendered a lot of sympathy within and outside the...

The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has reinstituted twice-weekly meetings of the national cabinet and announced that the states and...