Why have successive Australian governments found it so difficult to truly embrace the country’s potential to become a clean energy superpower?
While a UK Labour government would undoubtedly pursue closer alignment with the European Union, there are strategic and ideological reasons that will keep the UK engaged in the Indo-Pacific region.
Religious discrimination laws have been highly controversial in Australia in recent years. Here’s where they started, and where we are now.
Australia’s biggest competitor has massively expanded nickel production, funded by Australia’s biggest customer. What can Australia's nickel industry do to survive?
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
If the Voice referendum is lost on 14 October, the Prime Minister will have to confront some diabolically difficult challenges, and quickly pivot to the role of healer-in-chief.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
Can legislated obligations improve the way governments consider climate change in their decision-making?
Existing research evidence suggests the hegemony of neoliberal measures within Australian welfare policy has resulted in higher, not lower, levels of social and economic injustice.
Households and businesses are set for more hip-pocket pain after regulators flagged hefty electricity price rises in four Australian states.
In what is the first COP since Labor took office in May this year, there are positive signs of Australia picking up its game on climate policy.
Like Britain recently, Australia has had more than its share of leadership excesses and upheavals over the past 15 years, but could that phase be passing?
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
Legislation must be created to ensure that Scott Morrison’s underhanded ministerial power-grab never happens again.
Difficulties in attracting and retaining teachers have much to do with their working conditions. We need to develop a fairer and better school system.
For many LGBTIQA+ young people in Australia, educational institutions can be places of harassment and discrimination, and offer little in the way of mental health support. They deserve better.
An analysis of 82 million words has revealed that the relative attention Australia’s news and opinion pieces gave to First Nations peoples began to grow steadily from about 2005, with a huge peak in 2007.
Judging by what the new federal government has promised, the answer appears to be a resounding “Yes”.
Australia’s prime ministers in recent years haven’t stayed in office for long. If the Australian public can be patient, Albanese’s style may offer greater longevity.
Although election night started well enough, another miracle victory quickly evaporated as voters turned their backs on the incumbent government.
Neither Scott Morrison nor Anthony Albanese has so far impressed with strong leadership skills – but the Labor leader may offer a different style of leadership that might suit the times.
Unlike many politicians, Anthony Albanese doesn’t appear to harbour a sense of entitlement to the top job – and his journey towards it has been a long one.
Neither Scott Morrison nor Anthony Albanese has prioritised a commitment to recognising and reducing men’s violence in their election pitch. They haven’t even uttered the words “violence against women”.
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