Australia could benefit too from a renegotiation of the maritime boundary, writes Michael Leach

How did an unelected campaign consultant come to exercise such influence over Labor’s 2013 campaign, asks Stephen Mills.

THE 2013 election was probably the first in Australian history in which half of the votes were cast by electors aged fifty or over. Only 47 per cent of people on the electoral roll fall into that age group, but the lower voting rate among younger adults means that it’s highly likely that the older...

STANDING on the podium in Warsaw this week, president Baron Waqa of Nauru wasn’t mincing his words. “Many of the countries most responsible for climate change are retreating from their moral responsibility and obligation to act,” he said. “Consequently, we are lacking the urgent ambition required to lower emissions in the short time we have...

IN THE unlikely setting of Perth in the early 1990s three colleagues and I set ourselves up as software developers. None of us had any significant experience or expertise in computing or business, but we did have a hot idea. School systems in Australia and elsewhere had at long last decided to introduce an outcomes-based...