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State Politics

Rundle: Twiggy's Tarzan antics and the problem of the white saviour

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's fixation with the cashless welfare card is more about him playing modern Tarzan than what is good for indigenous communities.

LEAKED: Transcript of Matthew Guy's dinner at The Lobster Cave

A transcript of a thoroughly proper dinner between gentlemen with no ulterior motives whatsoever.

Living within a 20-minute walk of your work, your supermarket, your gym, your doctor, your friends and family, etc, sounds like a very nice idea, but is it feasible?

Will Australians be living in '20-minute cities' by the middle of this century?

Living within a 20-minute walk of your work, your supermarket, your gym, your doctor, your friends and family, etc, sounds like a very nice idea, but is it feasible?

Fear and loathing on the fracking trail in Katherine

Is the Northern Territory Labor government wavering in its commitment to ban fracking? Rod Campbell, research director at The Australia Institute, travels up north to find out.

NT indigenous employment program might be fraudulent as well as racist

The Indigenous Employment Provisional Sum might, unsurprisingly, turn out to be subject to widespread fraud.

Matthewson: is Dastyari on the comeback trail, or bushwhacking in the political wilderness?

It's difficult to tell how successful, if at all, the young Senator will be at convincing the public he has rehabilitated.

If marriage equality doesn't wreck the government, NBN or Murray-Darling disasters might

If things weren't already terrible for the government on marriage equality, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are front and centre in two other big problems.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews

Poll Bludger: is Dan Andrews hurting Shorten's chances of winning the next election?

A great convergence has been under way in the four largest states, eliminating a pattern through the last three elections in which Victoria reigned as Labor's strongest state.

Roll up, roll up, the George Pell media circus is in town

Not a journalist in Melbourne was going to miss 10 minutes of George Pell at a filing hearing.