A leaky Business Council is convinced just one more ad campaign and a charity barbecue will fix everything.
Instead of being a stumble on the road to company tax cuts, this week's Senate defeat is a chance for the government to refocus on ordinary Australians rather than multinationals.
Tony Abbott's office while Prime Minister was heavily criticised, but Malcolm Turnbull's is even worse.
The lesson from Labor's backdown on pensioner dividend imputation refunds is to keep the targets of reform as diffuse and ill-defined as possible.
The development and possible passage of the company tax cut package reflects a policymaking process debauched by decades of neoliberalism.
When it comes to reporting polls, journalists think statistical noise is real, and correlation always equals causation.
It's not just this week's backflip on tax cuts. Pauline Hanson's voting record does not speak highly of her commitment to battlers.
Politicians are doing nothing to prove to voters they're worthy of their trust.
Either Australia's jobs market is booming, or we desperately need a company tax cut. Both those things can't be true at the same time, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.
Other countries have recognised the need for a youth representative in parliament, so why not Australia?
