A visit to Australia’s most remote outpost highlights the failure of the federal government to lead a rational debate, writes Klaus Neumann.

Australia should swing its support behind the international campaign for a banking levy, writes Ross Buckley, and then join the push for a financial transactions tax.

The prime minister was angry. So what did he say? asks Jock Given in Inside Story DAVID MARR would not have been Kevin Rudd’s first choice for a biographer when he turned up early in 2010 with a Quarterly Essay to write.

Combined with the shortcomings of the media’s reporting, the government’s weaknesses are hiding some pretty good news, writes Rodney Tiffen in Inside Story

Although he’s largely unknown outside the ACT, Jon Stanhope is one of Australia’s most intriguing political figures, writes Norman Abjorensen.