Mainstream thinking accepts that the main tenets of Australian foreign policy are the US alliance, engagement with the Indo-Pacific and our global interests. We differ over emphasis and approach, but we are fortunate to have broad agreement on the component parts. This is one reason why foreign policy often plays a marginal role in Australian...

On 31 May, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development, the Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP, spoke at the Lowy Institute on how Australia can be a better international citizen.

Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese claims spending is higher as a proportion of GDP in 2016 than it was during the global financial crisis.

With the major parties level-pegging, a defeat for the Coalition isn’t out of the question. So what would a Labor government look like? THE conventional wisdom is that there won’t be a Shorten Labor government. The opinion polls say it, the commentators say it, and the bookies are saying it. In the past fortnight, Labor’s...

Labor will give the independent Parliamentary Budget Office ('PBO') an enhanced role in Australia’s macroeconomic reporting to promote stronger fiscal discipline and enhance transparency around Commonwealth Budgets. Under Labor, an enhanced Parliamentary Budget Office will: prepare the macroeconomic forecasts that underpin all key Budget statements and updates; prepare and publish the Intergenerational Report every five...