Whose responsibility is it to monitor and stem communication that relates to violence and terrorist activity?

Prime Ministers have long turned to a big vision when trying to shore up their stocks with voters or their own party. That usually means throwing their support behind big infrastructure projects, like fast trains or second airports. $75 billion has been committed to infrastructure in the 2017 budget over the next ten years -...

The chiefs of some of Australia's biggest businesses descended on Parliament House yesterday, urging the government to pass the Coalition's company tax cuts. The renewed push for lower tax rates for big businesses comes after Parliament passed the so-called Google Tax, a 40% on any profits that multinationals are found to have shifted offshore to...

Australia's east coast gas crisis has prompted calls from big industrial energy users to set aside some gas for domestic consumers, replicating a policy already in place in Western Australia. The oil and gas industry is fighting any such move, and has made its opposition clear in the days since executives met with the Prime...

Over the past decade, one of the most difficult and fractured policy areas has been climate change, energy security and power prices. Just before the 2007 election, former Liberal Prime John Howard belatedly embraced a price on carbon and emissions trading and in 2009 Malcolm Turnbull also supported emissions trading. That was before he was...