Scott Morrison had good reason to be pleased with his whistle-stop to Queenstown in New Zealand. Apart from anything else he scored an...

When the Victorian lockdown was announced it didn’t take long for commentators to start asking who would pay to support casual workers...

A split in the federal Labor party emerged after the NSW state by-election for the seat of Upper Hunter. Earlier in the week, the federal...

Victoria’s acting premier, James Merlino, had no option but to impose a lockdown on the state. The number of Covid positive Victorians...

FlowNews24 Canberra correspondent John McDonnell explores the value in governments taking a more favourable approach to growing strategic...

In two separate senate committee hearings on Tuesday, it emerged that four of the five inquiries that derived from the alleged rape of...

Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers gave his reply to the budget on Monday morning in a speech to the House of Representatives. It was largely...

Despite the fact that the Upper Hunter by-election was brought about by a sex scandal involving the previous Nationals member, the...

It seems that everyone is now a weekend infectious diseases specialist. This attitude is egged on by the media. Every misplaced attitude...

A few weeks ago, trade minister Dan Tehan was announcing that signature of the UK/Australia free trade agreement was imminent. Now we are...

It is hard not to think that if Mathias Cormann was still the finance minister, the budget would have looked a lot different. More Peter...

At the beginning of March, the minister for agriculture, David Littleproud quietly announced the establishment of a $23.5 million...

The government leadership group has been cock-a-hoop after their big-spending re-election budget was generally well received. But there...

Anthony Albanese’s budget reply speech adopted the same formula as last year, beginning with a trip down memory lane recounting his...

Squirrelled away in the budget portfolio papers for the department of agriculture in Tuesday night’s budget was an amount of $196.9...

Australia is on the road to recovery according to Josh Frydenberg’s budget speech. There are now more jobs in the economy than existed...

In the latest edition of ‘The Saturday Paper’ emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU, Hugh White wrote an article entitled...

The deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Guy Debelle, told an audience of economists at the Shann Memorial lecture on...

The government is having problems managing its relations with three disaffected groups: women, the Indian and the Chinese diasporas. This...

The prime minister’s speech to the conference of churches on the Gold Coast has sparked a contest between people of faith and...