IT IS INCREASINGLY difficult to name the next Liberal prime minister. Malcolm Turnbull’s prospects are receding and history, let alone the polls, is against his winning the next election. No new government coming to office after an election has been denied a second term since the Scullin Labor government was wiped out by the Great...

GOVERNMENTS place great emphasis on self-promotion, especially when it comes to announcing high profile public works. But no government has yet discovered which mysterious property in signs fixed to taxpayer-funded constructions seems to render them invisible to the public but a provocative eyesore to political opponents. So it is with the signs on school fences...

I HAVE A GREAT IDEA to improve the health of Australians, and it goes to the heart of the problem: the performance of doctors. The profession has been operating free of scrutiny for too long and must be made much more transparent. As consumers we need to be assured that our local medico is up...

A DECADE AGO, in response to the Asian and Russian economic crises, the finance ministers of the seven biggest economies created a new organisation, the G20. For the next nine years the influence of the G20 grew but slowly. Then, last year, the G7 handed over the role of coordinating the global response to the...

New polling confirms that being in charge has a powerful influence on voter perceptions, writes Peter Brent.