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COVER STORY By-elections a trial run for next federal election

Peter WestmoreJul 14, 20181 min read
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has drawn the battle lines for the next election by securing passage of his $144 billion tax reform package through Federal…

COVER STORY NSW electricity grid now at ‘crisis point’

Peter WestmoreJun 30, 20181 min read
COVER STORY NSW electricity grid now at ‘crisis point’

Severe power shortfalls have hit New South Wales for the first time, as the impact of the closures of coal-fired power stations in South Australia…

COVER STORY Reflections on the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx

Patrick J. ByrneJun 16, 20181 min read
COVER STORY Reflections on the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx

Two hundred years after his birth, the legacy of Karl Marx is a brutal social experiment under communist rule in the East, and in the…

The Greens: the political equivalent of bilgewater

Chris McCormackJun 2, 20181 min read
The Greens: the political equivalent of bilgewater

The Australian Greens’ federal party platform needs close scrutiny, especially when outlandish claims and radical ideology form the basis of some truly bizarre policies.  …

The real cost of institutionalised child care

Chris McCormackMay 19, 20181 min read
The real cost of institutionalised child care

Former Prime Minister John Howard has condemned claims that family tax benefits (FTBs) are “middle-class welfare”, lambasting both the Coalition and Labor governments for cutting…

HECS: hastening our demographic winter

Chris McCormackMay 5, 20181 min read
HECS: hastening our demographic winter

The Federal Government’s plan to lower the threshold at which university students pay back Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debts, formerly known as HECS debts,…