Laura Tingle
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Lowe has stoked Labor’s old traumas about interest rates
Labor is a party with PTSD on a number of sleeper policy issues that it will eventually have to confront. → Read More
Australia deals itself back into the diplomacy game
Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese have quickly moved Australia from outlier to foreign policy activist. → Read More
Chalmers wrestles with the energy price monster
Misspeaking on power prices was only the start of the energy headaches for the federal treasurer this week. → Read More
Curb the phoney rhetorical war as a real conflict explodes
The plight of Ukraine should make domestic politicians pause to contemplate the messy realities of armed conflict. → Read More
War on securocrats is a final descent into policy madness
The Coalition has doubled down in its attacks on current and former security mandarins to make itspoint. → Read More
These are the ludicrous dying days of the 46th Parliament
In a frantic week, it was hard to see how the scares can escalate - except we know that they will. → Read More
Politicians no longer enjoy the low bar of Trump
The Trump presidency has allowed too many Australian politicians to borrow from his playbook of stretching the truth, writes Laura Tingle. → Read More
A potential pandemic lesson from New Zealand
The latest economic figures from New Zealand offer some food for thought on how differently the pandemic, and responses to it, can feed through an economy. → Read More
Morrison's approach to China clearly isn't working
The government keeps signalling to Beijing that it wants to re-establish dialogue to discuss political and trade differences, and that ain’t happening. → Read More
A week of hope still means many days of frustration
The Victorian second wave is passing. But borders, air travel and masks remain a seething mix of need and politics. → Read More
Leaders need to change gear for a much longer war
This was supposed to be all over by July. Now governments are in mourning for plans that did not go to timetable. → Read More
Australia now more alone in a dangerous region
The sobering reality of the latest defence review is that we can’t just keep riding shotgun to the US. → Read More
The Prime Minister makes few bones about his favourites
Byelection voters and airlines get to feel the love. The ABC and the arts are orphans. → Read More
Why the national cabinet must brace for the jobless wave
An analysis of the JobKeeper numbers shows how complicated a return to higher levels of employment will be. → Read More
Politics has stopped being a game
There has been plenty of reason to reflect amid this crisis on whether we are reaping the outcome of a degeneration in the standard of politics in recent decades, writes Laura Tingle. → Read More
Crisis management in the age of the coronavirus
Australia had until this week done a reasonable job of containing the spread of COVID-19, but the Morrison government still has to untangle its signals of complacency and alarm. → Read More
Why sports rorts could be one pork barrel too many
Experts are now casting legal and constitutional doubt on pollies voting themselves large buckets of money to hand out. → Read More
What Gaetjens' fine print reveals about sports rorts
The idea that taxpayers are owed some transparency on how their money is spent is a bit of a sore point for the government, but a parliamentary submission into sports grants by the Prime Minister's top bureaucrat offers some intriguing clues. → Read More
Sports rorts is now a big test for the Senate
The Senate has voted for an inquiry into the sports rorts affair. If the Senate crossbench pushes for evidence, we may actually find out a bit more about how the government operates. → Read More
The bushfires have changed the way that we look at ourselves
The national confidence and rational debate that was so striking a few decades ago have been torched by our relentless partisanship. → Read More