Well, as conspiracy theories go, it didn’t last that long. For the last couple of years, the federal opposition and its cheer squad in the…
Bernard Keane is Crikey’s political editor. Before that he was Crikey’s Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.
Well, as conspiracy theories go, it didn’t last that long. For the last couple of years, the federal opposition and its cheer squad in the…
While conventional wisdom and forecasts have the dollar going lower in coming months and easing the pressures on the economy and the feder…
The government has unveiled a pre-election economic statement that downgrades growth and revenue forecasts and resumes cutting spending in …
If, as the Opposition and some in the media claim, Treasury has been politicised by Labor, it’s got a funny way of showing it: Yet again …
The government has unveiled a pre-election economic statement that downgrades growth and revenue forecasts and resumes cutting spending in a…
As it turns out, the best part about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s announcement this week of a shift to an emissions trading scheme has nothin…
Telstra was compelled to strike a secret 2001 deal with the FBI and the US Department of Justice to give them surveillance access to the und…
As the pink batts program hits the front pages again, there’s plenty of finger-pointing at Labor over workplace deaths. Look at the full …
Is there a bigger joke in Australian regulation than the Australian Securities and Investments Commission? Journalist Adele Ferguson’s ex…
Kevin Rudd has a couple of small advantages in his improbable, likely impossible, quest to rescue Labor’s fortunes over the coming months. H…
An inept regulator exercising a hitherto-unused internet censorship power has been revealed as the source of the accidental blocking of a Me…
In January, Prime Minister Julia Gillard outlined her economic and political strategy for the year, in a speech that became more famous fo…
