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First flight takes off from 'Australia's best airport'

The first commercial flight has taken to the skies from Australia's newest major airport as leaders say it will have a major impact on Sydney.

AAP · Oct 25

'Precious': unlikely allies rally against barracks sale

The Albanese government has been urged to reverse plans to sell an inner Sydney military barracks by key political figures at a thousand-strong rally.

AAP · Oct 25

Offensive tirades on race and religion shouldn’t be the norm in Australian politics

A racist AI-generated video is the latest offensive stunt by One Nation. Now Pauline Hanson’s attack on Mehreen Faruqi needs to be settled by the courts

The Guardian - AU · Oct 9

How does unthinkable policy become inevitable? The ‘Overton window’ is one possible answer

Not that long ago, Australians owned many public enterprises and lived behind high tariff walls. The country ran on cheap coal-fired power. A pro-China foreign policy and a large, bipartisan migration program worked to the country’s benefit.

The Conversation · Sep 15

Shocks, alchemy and John Howard’s ‘long shadow’ have shaped 21st century Australian politics

It says something not too flattering about Australian politics that respected academic Paul Strangio’s new book The Alchemy of Leadership only discusses 21st century prime ministers, but still needs to cover seven of them. Or eight, if you count Kevin Rudd twice.

The Conversation · Sep 14

Morning Mail: Woolworths increased prices during ‘freeze’; Abbott weighs in on Hastie cartoon; and turning the algorithm off

Cost of chicken fillets, potatoes and donuts rose during supermarket giant’s three-month promotion; former PM calls on One Nation to remove ‘offensive’ animated series; Caitlin Cassidy tries to travel back to 2012

The Guardian - AU · Sep 10

Tony Abbott says it would be ‘right’ for One Nation to remove cartoon labelling Andrew Hastie a ‘traitor’

Former prime minister joins in widespread condemnation of ‘offensive’ animated series posted on social media by One Nation

The Guardian - AU · Sep 10

The Coalition wants to make flag burning a crime. It’s a revival of a decades-old battle

This week, the Coalition released a policy it promised would “protect and defend our national day, our national flag and our war memorials”.

The Conversation · Sep 10

Big tobacco is back in town as cigarette tax fight lights up Australian politics

The industry has been pushing for cuts to excise for decades. With the explosion in illegal cigarette sales, those calls have grown louder

The Guardian - AU · Sep 5

Thrown shoes, sabotaged launches and exposed affairs: the drama of Australian political publishing

The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 taping of the now-defunct ABC show Q&A throws a shoe at former prime minister John Howard. (It echoed a famous moment two years earlier, when an Iraqi journalist threw his…

The Conversation · Sep 1