Bill Shorten's budget reply offered some coherent vision, but his Infrastructure Australia proposal continues the process of outsourcing policy from politicians.
The newsroom of the Illawarra Mercury will be cut almost in half. With other cuts soon to follow.
SBS has told an Australian filmmaker it only wants docos with "broad, general appeal". Isn't that what commercial stations are for?
The glass-half-full crowd, including our benighted Treasurer, need to wake up to the reality of China's economic downturn, before it drags us into recession.
The Abbott government will not merely return Australia to the high-taxing years of the Howard government, it will exceed the Whitlam government in its spending.
There are shades of anti-Semitism at the root of the anti-halal nonsense.
To re-establish integrity in government departments, we must first deal with the problem of vested-interests lobbying, writes former senior public servant and diplomat John Menadue.
Our only current hope for real revelation and proper address of social problems, from obesity to mental illness, lies with science and scholarship.
Labo(u)r parties everywhere are both weaker and stronger than they appear to be.
If history has taught us anything, it's that George Brandis has a very narrow and mercurial definition of what constitutes art worth funding. Artists should be very worried about his new "excellence programme".
