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The Sketch: Tony Wright on 'Nation's worst government? Jane Hume's hyperbolic historical claim'
Tony Wright, the associate editor of The Age, has been writing for 50 years. He is the master of what we call the political sketch. Sketches are akin…
2 months ago
Trump won’t shelter us. But does Australia really need nuclear weapons?
We are in a dangerous new nuclear age, according to a growing number of world leaders. The signs are not just in Russia’s threats to use its nuclear …
2 months ago
A Sydney mother, the big bank and the court stoush over $44.11
It should have been a time of celebration for a Sydney woman, who had bought a new home for herself and her daughter.
But as settlement loomed, her ap…
2 months ago
How far will Angus Taylor go to crack down on immigration?
“Our character is essentially Anglo-Celtic and Judaeo-Christian. That's what has made our country attractive to migrants, and we should keep it that …
2 months, 1 week ago
The CFMEU ‘crime gang’: A honeypot of money, and a government that looked the other way
Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie’s 2024 exposé of the criminal infiltration of the construction sector prompted a slew of investigations among go…
2 months, 1 week ago
Anthony Albanese interview: Police prayer disruption at Herzog protest needs ‘full explanation’
We're bringing you an extra episode of Inside Politics today because Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had an opening in his diary, and he's granted us…
2 months, 1 week ago
Is government spending really driving inflation?
There’s a bit going on with the Liberal Party this week, but while that unfolds we are going to look at some bigger issues.
Interest rates went up r…
2 months, 1 week ago
Japan’s new PM is the 'Trump whisperer'. Will she compel Albanese to follow suit?
The new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is so pro-Donald Trump she’s become known as the “Trump whisperer”. She also just gained an enormous a…
2 months, 1 week ago
Who is Isaac Herzog and why there are protests everywhere he goes
The violence that unfolded outside Sydney Town Hall on Monday night was ugly. Protesters were punched, kicked and trampled as they tried to breach a …
2 months, 1 week ago
The politics of Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl’s half-time show
If you’ve taken a passing glimpse at news over the past week, you would have come across the name Bad Bunny.
The Puerto Rican musician recently won th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago