Years of government attacks over funding and balance have left the national broadcaster in desperate need of repair

Internal political battles did not kill Kimberley Kitching, and there’s something deeply grotesque about suggesting that they did

What is driving the Coalition’s sudden interest in reining in misinformation?

And the Morrison government doesn’t mind if we have another

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

The Coalition has confirmed it always viewed the Higgins allegation in political terms

‘Just imagine for a second…’

The Mark Dreyfus episode sums up everything that is wrong with our politics and our media

The ‘No’ campaign has emboldened racists, and emboldened Peter Dutton to become the worst version of himself

The PM’s instincts are autocratic

The Murdoch media’s authoritarianism is showing

The woman who failed to learn from the past, and the man who failed to plan for the future

What is the point of appealing to the better nature of a man who doesn’t appear to have one?

It’s treasurer vs premier as Victoria remains the key political battleground

There is no need to “both sides” the utter insanity that is taking place on one side of politics

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

History will not look kindly on Peter Dutton, who this week danced on the grave of the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Scott Morrison is a leader who not only fails to accept responsibility but continually abandons his post

How the Murdoch media obliterated the Liberal Party’s centre and its foreseeable future

It’s clear someone has lied. So who’s going to take the fall?

The rorting revelations continue, but who will be held properly accountable?

Morrison’s approach to environmental management aligns us with Russia, Brazil and the US

Christian Porter wants his defamation case to run on his terms

Mathias Cormann’s taxpayer-funded job application is a nose-pincher

The Australian media has failed in its duty during the referendum, leaving it to others to inform the public

Christian Porter manages to keep one more thing secret in his quest to suppress everything about the allegations against him

The dropping of Bernard Collaery’s prosecution is one of the simplest yet most meaningful actions this government has taken

Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation points to the urgent need for a federal ICAC

Scott Morrison humiliated the wrong woman

The Coalition has overstepped the mark

NSW and Victoria deserve much credit for Australia’s pandemic response

Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson

The trolling of Kristina Keneally has a familiar, nasty tone

Alan Tudge should have stood down from parliament long ago

Even Tanya Plibersek sounded unconvinced by her feeble defence of the Isaac River coalmine

Scott Morrison defends the indefensible

Whether it was today or last week, why was the PM meeting with Piers Morgan at all?

The attorney-general denies the allegations, but admits he can’t disprove them

As momentum builds to this year’s referendum, the man long regarded as the ‘Father of Reconciliation’ reflects on a life fighting for a better Australia

The floods and the advent of the climate emergency

The path to equal treatment before the law has been long and arduous for gay and lesbian Australians.

NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet

The Morrison government is adrift, reactive and complacent

At the Auburn Hotel on election night, hope coalesces around Monique Ryan

Scott Morrison says we will spend whatever we have to on defence. Why doesn’t the same apply to climate change?

The COVID-19 recession has accelerated a radical policy agenda on tax and IR

It’s time to call Peter Dutton out for the soulless wrecker that he is

A regular phrase of the author’s father provides an apt description for the grand test facing Australia in the Voice referendum

The only thing ramping up is the shamelessness of the PM’s falsehoods

In opposing the voice, the Liberals are consigning themselves to irrelevance

The PM stands condemned by the aged-care royal commission he established

The Coalition fails to grasp how bad an impression its secrecy is leaving

How much more scandal can Australian politics take?

Centre Alliance sells out universities

What kind of discussions might James Hooke have had with Christian Porter?

The climate disasters unfolding in the northern hemisphere are a sign of what’s in store here, as governments fail to act on the unfolding emergency

The Coalition thinks we should just “move on” from every fuck up it ever made

The Victorian Liberal Party cannot distance itself from its own candidates and preferences

Greg Craven’s inclusion in the “No” pamphlet essay should be a warning to devil’s advocates such as Ben Fordham

Morrison’s manufacturing plan is just another empty announcement

With three capital cities in lockdown, a trio of major polls shows voters are holding the PM fundamentally responsible

The Opposition leader is pushing back against the PM’s lies, but it’s going to be a long election campaign

The voice seeks to bring together First Nations and the Australian people to repair the original grievance of this place

Is there anything that can stop the Coalition from encouraging conspiracy theories and misinformation?

Daniel Andrews reopens hospitality and retail at last

With the Greens having shown a willingness to compromise, a failed climate bill will be on the government

With today’s reshuffle, the Liberal Party sinks deeper into its voice opposition quagmire

The voice debate risks descending into a post-truth malaise, which is just where Peter Dutton wants it

An Indigenous leader reflects on a lifetime following the law of the land

The PM imposed an illegal ‘debt’ collection scheme on Australia’s most vulnerable

Governments are warning people to get jabbed or suffer the consequences, but how much do they care about those left behind?

What the robodebt royal commission tells us about who knew what, and why it matters

Alan Tudge should have stood down from parliament long ago

Leaders ask for respect, but refuse to show any to the public

Aboriginal children are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Why would anyone oppose something that would help address that?

Scott Morrison finally offers a course out of COVID. Sort of.

The mother of robodebt victim Rhys Cauzzo on hopes the royal commission may offer the beginnings of justice

The Liberal Party keeps making its women problem worse

As increasingly frequent and intense fires ravage parts of the country, Tony Abbott’s climate denialism remains impervious

Peter Dutton has no interest in listening to local Indigenous voices

What explains the hero-worship of the former NSW premier?

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

Why did the government miss its vaccination target by so much?

In Josh Frydenberg’s budget, the Coalition looks like reverting to type

An entrepreneurial streak may be the last thing you want in a PM

How can the Coalition attack Lidia Thorpe over integrity with a straight face?

An anti-anti-business campaign may target your feed

A woman is going to take the blame. Again.

The Morrison government lurches from scandal to incompetence