Labor to go full term at full election-campaign speed
Albanese says cabinet is ‘crafting an offer for the second term’ as Minister Ed Husic ponders breaks for business, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Politics
Political news and analysis from the ACT and Federal Parliaments
"The ACT’s hospital system has been deprived of the necessary beds and staff over the past eight years. Scarcity of resources is adversely impacting every part of the system." JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED revisit the state of public health.
"Ms Haire commenced legal action in early September. However, she has sought to delay the Supreme Court process at least four times. The action is now listed for November 25 – a month after the ACT election," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
Nuclear? Wind? Wind? Nuclear? Who knows where the politics will end up, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Political commentary
Governments wake up to social media’s grip on children
There's growing momentum for governments to fight social media’s grip on children, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Political commentary
How the government ‘planned’ hospital misery
The ACT is the only jurisdiction in which the proportion of hospital patients not admitted on time has increased in every category. JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED reveal why our public health service is the sickest in the nation.
Political commentary
Electioneering made as simple as one, two, three
Political columnist ANDREW HUGHES has hit on a way for a candidate to get elected. Well, some of the way. He calls it the Hughes Rule of Three and thinks it's a winner.
"The recent federal budget typifies the prevention paradox. The pressure is off, the spread of infection is slowing and the hospital systems are not having to deal with pandemic overloading," writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
Peter Dutton’s alternative – lower migration, more homes, and a populist swipe at billionaires, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"The question the Greens must answer is that when the hard reality of budgetary choice hits, will they prioritise public housing over the tram?" JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED dismantle the Greens public housing policy.
Jim Chalmers has been bitten by the giveaway bug in a budget that contains good news for almost everyone, writes STEPHEN BARTOS.
What the Reserve Bank thinks of Chalmers’ budget will be nearly as important as the voters’ opinion, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Relief on energy bills for all in a federal budget that bets on lower inflation, reports MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"The policy of the government, driven by the Greens, is to build future Canberra totally within the current footprint. Madness!', writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
"Canberra needs to see significant change in the ACT Assembly. With education and health that have moved from Australian leader to the bottom of the pile under Labor stewardship, it really is time for a change," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
Like the famous budget tree, Jim Chalmers can change the story to suit the season, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"Nearly all the local campaigns are using social and digital media now, keeping their big spend free for when the campaign kicks… but this is where they have it wrong to a certain extent," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
Another wry look at the upcoming federal budget from cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Ministers Clare O'Neil and Andrew Giles are dodging the spotlight shining on blunders over ex-detainees, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
