1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1524+ words) A busy parliamentary week was overshadowed by two dramatic contrasts in political integrity and accountability. On the one hand there was Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and on the other Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie. They were not drawn into a direct…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (208+ words) Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday he did not know he was a member of his local golf club when his government gave it $6m for renovations, criticising the ABC for reporting on the story. The money came from a…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (265+ words) The Saturday Paper Article text size: This control adjusts article text size. For broader accessibility options, please use your browser or device text scaling settings. Tech giants to face teen ban fines The Albanese government is seeking to pass a…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (486+ words) It is no great stretch to imagine who Paul Keating has in mind when he describes the state of Australian politics. “Timidity,” he says, “is like a virus in the bloodstream.” He says: “My view of the country was bigger…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1333+ words) It wasn’t a great week for politics and policy in Australia. A grotesquely unfair special GST deal for Western Australia, originally crafted by Scott Morrison, was cemented in by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, despite advice that it’s a stinker and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (158+ words) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country is “at war” over trade with the United States, following a breakdown in negotiations between the neighbouring countries that resulted in the US imposing 50% tariffs on US$20bn ($28bn) worth of Canadian goods. Carney…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (609+ words) This patriotism was understandable to me. It was a time when the US, having come through the many social revolutions of the ’60s and being a world leader in graduate education in most fields, was much admired around the globe. I…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1682+ words) In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the climate minister warns the Greens against teaming with the Coalition to kill a new offsets plan for forests. Chris Bowen says it would be a betrayal of native forests for the Greens…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (300+ words) The Bush Deep podcast furore was more than a cringeful moment for the prime minister – it was a display of how political satire has shifted with the fracturing of the media landscape. In the late 1980s, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1054+ words) The government’s refusal to release an assessment of the impact of NDIS reforms on women has drawn criticism that their safety and security has been sacrificed to meet Labor’s budget goals. The passage of reforms to slash the costs of…...