Australia is sending dubious messages to Indonesian fishing communities.

Opposing changes to the GST is unlikely to benefit Labor’s election prospects Barely a year into the new government, the GST is finally, officially, back on the table, with prime minister Tony Abbott calling for a “mature debate” rather than the usual political “screaming match” about a possible broadening or raising of the tax. Abbott...

Cultural policy and trade policy are pulling in different directions, and Ten’s Offspring could be one casualty.

Can the G20 hope to make measurable progress in the fight against corruption? With the heads of government and the central bankers from the world’s twenty biggest economies about to gather in Brisbane for the G20, the emerging signs of a faltering global economy will inevitably top the agenda. But the gathering will also consider...

This paper uses data from the My School website to explore some indicators of change in the equity of schools since the evidence on which the Gonski panel based its findings about school funding and inequality was obtained. At the time of writing there is a bare three years since the release of the Gonski...