Articles by Bernard Keane

The long campaign to provide Australian women with access to medical abortion will near an end today — but what will an Abbott government do on RU486?

Curbing population growth will reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions but at a profound economic cost — and it won’t decarbonise our emissions-intensive economy. There’s a more viable solution.

The less Tony Abbott has to do with Coalition policy, the better. It doesn’t augur well for a Coalition government after September 14.

Christopher Pyne’s lament that Anzac Day is in danger of being overlooked is absurd, and a clear effort to relaunch the culture wars.

Health spending and health employment are surging in Australia. But it’s not inevitable, as the experience of other countries shows. And it’s not necessarily being driven by the ageing population.

With the Aussie dollar refusing to fall, it’s important we make sure fiscal policy can effectively respond to economic challenges. And even the pollies are finally facing up to that difficult reality.

Despite the claims of anti-alcohol campaigners, Australians are drinking less — yes, even Generation Y.

Terrorist incidents in Western countries now produce a highly ritualised response, and that applies to social media as well.

Commitments on regional news are just one tactic as Nine tries to persuade the government to drop the key obstacle between it and a merger, while Ten tries to block it.

The Obama administration’s campaign against the press has extended to criminalising attempts to accurately cover the cybersecurity industry.

“Class warfare” is a confected term sprayed about across the nation’s newspapers of late to shut down policy debate. But funny how it only applies to the rich …

Labor’s primary vote is starting to recover, but the PM’s personal ratings are not. However, voters aren’t enthused with Malcolm Turnbull’s broadband proposal.

John Howard’s effort to claim credit for the Arab Spring is grubby and hypocritical — he is using the brave sacrifice of thousands of Arab men and women to justify an illegal war.

Whatever its flaws, Malcolm Turnbull’s broadband policy had dragged the Liberal Party a long way in recognising the importance of broadband. Has he removed a key reason not to vote Liberal with this policy?

Handouts to the automotive sector hurt Australia and, if not abolished, should at least opened up to the rest of the manufacturing sector.

Labor’s prolonged period of superannuation “crisis” has yielded a worthy but decidedly minimal reform. And it might never happen anyway.

The US government continues to go after computer activists who seek to reveal the truth about the shadowy cybersecurity industry. The latest target is web-hosting company Cloudflare.

It’s predictable that media outlets aimed at the wealthy would defend the current superannuation tax rorts, which see the poor boost the retirement savings of the very rich. So why is Simon Crean defending it?