Despite the government’s resolve to defuse Labor’s Medicare attacks, the federal budget isn’t looking so generous under scrutiny, writes Lesley Russell.

First Nations have reclaimed the recognition process in the lead-up to a landmark gathering at Uluru this month.

A visitor to this country over the past week might wonder where, or in what year, he or she has landed. It’s now nine sleeps since ANZAC Day 2017, and hundreds of articles and hours of rolling outrage have been expended on a few words posted on Facebook by part-time ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied on...

One of the most vexed questions about the last election, at least among conservatives, is whether Tony Abbott could have won if he had remained prime minister. And the answer? No, he couldn’t have. At least, not if you accept newly released findings from the Australian Election Study, or AES. Conducted after every election since...

The politics of property prices are shifting rapidly beneath the Turnbull Government. After declaring that housing affordability would be the centrepiece of next month’s federal budget, the government has been backtracking. The shift in rhetoric isn’t surprising. Despite all the talk of options on the table, the government is yet to show that it’s serious...