We are paying more for our health insurance because we are using it more. No crude, short-term measures to restrict premium growth will deal with this fact.
AEC disclosures revealed Malcolm Turnbull to be the single biggest donor to a political party in 2016-17.
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The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
There are five women in the Turnbull government cabinet, making up just 24% of members.
AAP/Mick Tsikas
While both parties may have set out to modernise and renew their ideologies, the ALP’s and Labour’s attempts to marry the old and new instead precipitated two separate identity crises.
Christianity’s effect on Australian politics is far from waning.
Jonathan James
Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention…
Labor must explain how its additional funding will benefit students.
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Labor needs to convincingly discredit the 2017 budget to the point that the government cannot use it to help restore its standing in the eyes of voters.
The Hawke Labor government had a strong incentive to seek a new approach to industrial relations when it came to office.
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The Prices and Incomes Accord was a series of agreements between Labor and the ACTU where unions would moderate their wage demands in exchange for improvements in the ‘social wage’.
B.A. Santamaria (left) played a significant role in the Labor split and the formation of the Democratic Labor Party.
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Viewed from today’s post-Cold War and secularised society, the conflicts at heart of the Labor split appear curiously arcane. Yet its ghosts remain.
Bill Shorten will say that without confidence in the policy environment, investors would never put up the billions of dollars required for energy projects.
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Labor's edge over the government in the polls has seen the party stay united. But it has not stopped speculation about whether frontbencher Anthony Albanese would be a better leader of the party.
Michael Courts, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation
Check out our interactives showing the total donations to Australia’s major parties in 2015-16, who the biggest donors to the parties were, and how donations to parties have changed in recent years.