As the Abbott government prepares to deliver its 2015-16 budget, freelance journalist Andrei Ghoukassian takes a look at last year's effort and discovers not much has actually passed.
History suggests the numbers in tonight's budget documents will bear little relationship to what happens to the economy in the next twelve months.
One way to help fix the deficit is to streamline welfare by eliminating the bureaucracy with a negative income tax. In other words, just give people cold, hard cash.
How do you reduce spending but not anger the electorate? Fire some public servants. The Mandarin's Stephen Eastman reports.
If the Greens want to be taken seriously as a real mainstream party, they will have to stop wallowing in conspicuous compassion and start adopting pragmatic policies, writes communications consultant Toby Ralph.
News Corp wants to take over Sky News -- and it plans to make it more right-wing ... er... "mainstream".
Barely anyone expected the shock wins and losses at the recent UK election. So, just who cannibalised whose votes? And where to for David Cameron and his diminished, eight-seat majority?
Racing journalism luminary Ken Callander abruptly quit The Daily Telegraph over what he says is undue influence from Racing NSW.
Julie Bishop has visited Thailand, the highest-ranking Abbott government member to do so, but funnily enough she did not seem to want to see the refugee's paradise that is Cambodia.
Fred Nile has backflipped on his opposition to the privatisation of NSW's electricity grid. As a reward, he has been able to introduce a few batshit crazy measures to the NSW legislature.
