The Abbott government’s tough stance on border protection doesn’t only apply to asylum seekers arriving by boat

Elections in Victoria and Queensland have caught the pollsters wrong-footed. Are unexpected preference flows making Australian elections harder to predict? Between now and the federal election, due late next year, dozens of polls will be thrust on us. For the next month, a deluge of them will come from New South Wales. But we’ve got...

Campbell Newman’s premiership was an object lesson in the dangers of untrammelled power. Queensland needs an upper house to keep governments out of trouble From polling day on 31 January until the swearing in of Annastacia Palaszczuk as Labor premier seventeen days later, Queenslanders were treated to the usual tired scaremongering about the evils of...

Christopher Pyne’s teacher education review wants serious reform, but it may serve to protect the monopoly that produced the problems.

Australia’s job market has failed badly since the global financial crisis.