The government can shout about strong jobs growth, but it completely ignores that underemployment among women has remained high for decades.
History will conclude that the critics of Labor’s GFC response 10 years ago were hopelessly wrong. By avoiding a sudden, deep recession, Australia also avoided testing out what its effect may have been on our democratic system.
Kenneth Hayne and his royal commission will likely reshape financial services for decades to come.
Let’s indulge in a flight of imagination for a moment. Could we change the fundamental shape of government so climate change et al are not ignored?
The Labor Party's support for the Trans Pacific Partnership in the face of overwhelming evidence and its own policy confirms that voters are right to be disgusted with the cynicism of the major parties.
Turnbull presided over booming employment and a lift in economic growth, but failure to act on wage stagnation will leave a tarnished legacy.
Australians are digging deeper and deeper into their savings to fund a modest rate of economic growth. This is no "boom".
In his first speech, the new Treasury Secretary has completely ignored the biggest policy and political challenge the government faces: wage stagnation.
A new report from business groups urging the adoption of a bastardised TPP admits the economic benefits will be trivial. That hasn't stopped lobbyists hyping the results.
A report touting the benefits of building dams in Northern Australia says anything but, despite the efforts of Matt Canavan to spin it.
