Tag: politics

OPINION & ANALYSIS: How to calibrate the response to North Korea has to start from recognising the fundamental importance of the weapons to North Korea, and more particularly to Kim’s leadership.

North Korea says it has developed an advanced hydrogen bomb.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Now, in the marriage equality debate, those who fought against religious freedom protection are suddenly all for it.

Uncertainty for government prolonged by High Court while Opposition Leader Bill Shorten repeats call for two senior Coalition frontbenchers to stand down from ministry.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: What has escaped almost everyone in this latest parliamentary fracas is not so much the freedom to wear the burqa in Australia but rather the freedom NOT to wear it, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

The North Korean statement from a spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs, reported by the state news agency KCNA, described Malcolm Turnbull’s remarks about ANZUS as “reckless”.

The changes to the citizenship tests aren’t wholesale, but they have raised the bar for an English speaking skills-set.

VIDEO: George Brandis received a standing ovation from his political rivals across the chamber for his devastating condemnation of Pauline Hanson wearing a full burqa in the Senate.

Labor denies collusion with NZ colleagues to destabilise government over Barnaby Joyce citizenship affair, counter-accusing foreign minister of creating a diplomatic incident with Australia's closest ally.

Australian government rocked by revelation that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce might be a citizen of New Zealand, potentially making him ineligible to be a federal MP.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: By promising ‘fire and fury’, Donald Trump actually plays into North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s hands.

WATCH: Lesbian mum Senator Penny Wong blasts government's proposed plebiscite on same-sex marriage as a "stunt" that will expose kids to hatred, in remarkable speech to parliament.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: So, the government seems determined to give voters a voice, and equally determined not to be bound by what those voters say. How did we get here and where to now?

Leaked documents reveal details of President Donald Trump's testy phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over "a horrible deal, a disgusting deal" to settle refugees.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: What a funny chap, he is; although, it must be said, his mastery of the Australian vernacular leaves something to be desired.

Overseas born Australian federal politicians of all stripes are checking their paperwork after government minister forced to step-down over dual-citizenship fiasco.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Tony Abbott's relentless undermining of Malcolm Turnbull is becoming more than a political embarrassment for his own party, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

The Defence Act will be strengthened to remove some constraints governing the “call-out” of the ADF in terrorist situations.

VIDEO: Chris Uhlmann tells US media he makes no apology for his cut to the bone, viral condemnation of President Donald Trump.

Former head of the Australian Republican Movement, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull danced to a delicate diplomatic tune when he met with Her Majesty in London.

A push is being mounted from within the Liberal Party to get former prime minister Tony Abbott to take the job of High Commissioner to the UK to put an end to his undermining of Malcolm Turnbull.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: A weakening of the G20 is a weakening of Australia’s international influence. Few countries have a greater incentive to put solutions on the table.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The world is teeming with lesbians, writes TESS LAWRENCE and, as Margaret Court says, they all want to turn our kids into Communist Nazis — the very worst Nazis of all!

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Pauline Hanson claimed Australia was in danger of being “swamped by Asians”. At her re-election to the Senate on 2016, Hanson expanded her claim to also being “swamped by Muslims”. But is this factually correct?

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Pauline Hanson’s controversial comments were based on anecdotes from conversations with a limited number of teachers. There is both established and new evidence that clearly indicates her claims about students with disability are unsubstantiated.

Russia says it will treat coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates as potential targets and track them with missile systems and military aircraft, following downing of Syrian jet by US.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Tough English language tests will be used to decide Australian citizenship. Does this new policy look and feel like Australia’s old White Australia Policy?

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Not only must Australia's leaders manage competing ideologies in their parties and span diverging nations, they must also respond to a volatile electorate that is decidedly “anti-politics”.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party make unexpected gains across the country, while Conservative prime minister Theresa May hangs on to Number 10 by a thread after a night of surprises and a few red faces in dear old Blighty.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The volatility in recent voting behaviour means that this election is still more unpredictable than in the good old days of stable allegiances, values and attitudes.

The impromptu election was expected to be a simple win for Theresa May and the Conservatives, but nothing has gone to plan. The effect on the pound could be substantive, with volatility correlating to recent polling results and sensational international politics.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: While it is too early to predict how Chinese and European leadership will manifest in practice, in the face of American obstruction they are arguably the world’s best hope, if not its only hope.

Senator John McCain tells Australian audience allies should keep faith in the United States as it endures a "rough period" with Donald Trump as president.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Indigenous Australians are willing to negotiate. But are non-Indigenous Australians ready to enter into respectful negotiations? Or will they, once again, ignore the invitation?

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The American First Lady outshines her pussy-grabbing husband on their first overseas tour, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: if Prime Minister May is hoping an increased Commons majority will strengthen her Brexit negotiating position in Brussels, she is likely to be disappointed.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Fairfax has been sold out by its own board and we are witnessing the systemic and systematic killing of Fairfax Media, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Emmanuel Macron struck out alone to form his own political movement and while much of the froth surrounding the election has focused on his opponent, the enormity of his achievement needs to be acknowledged and cannot be underestimated.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Does President Trump actually understand how the Aussie Medicare system operates? Does he even remember Malcolm Turnbull's name?

ANALYSIS & OPINION: If Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts go ahead, Australia and other countries will have to respond by either cutting taxes as well, or totally reforming the way we tax corporate income.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Turnbull, who has had talks with senior administration figures in the past few days, is anxious to get a first-hand feel for Trump.

The British prime minister announced on Tuesday that she intends to take the United Kingdom to a general election on 8 June, three years early.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The threat posed by a nuclear North Korea has been exaggerated through intellectually lazy analysis based on assumptions of the Kim regime’s irrationality.

VIDEO: In honour of satirist John Clarke, who passed away on Sunday, one of our favourite Clarke & Dawe moments.

Former PM says Syria conflict is "baddies versus worsies" and US attack is justified.

Malcolm Turnbull says Australia stands in full support of the US missile strike on a Syrian airfield from where it is believed a chemical weapons attack was launched, while calling for the country's civil war to be brought to an end.

VIDEO: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson thought she was getting in on a selfie with an adoring supporter. She was wrong...

OPINION: Egged on by Abbott et al, Dutton leads the charge against marriage equality while PM Turnbull just looks on, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Today Britain serves the EU official notice that it is leaving. For Australia, Brexit is the diplomatic equivalent of moving into a shared house with a divorcing couple.

“We will never let them intimidate us or challenge our democratic way of life," says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.