The government’s ‘Australians first’ rhetoric is a response to hardening community attitudes over immigration and job security.

Fairfax’s latest staff cuts signal a crisis in Australian journalism, but international models offer a ray of hope.

If the government’s new schools funding plan represents an ideological change, its cuts to universities reflect a calculated antipathy.

The majority of the Emissions Reduction Fund is poured into questionable abatement schemes to discourage land clearing, while mass deforestation cancels out any climate gains.

The campaign against Safe Schools is reaching its final chapter, but in many respects the program has already done its work.

As the Great Barrier Reef suffers record bleaching, Malcolm Turnbull courts a mining giant that will only hasten its death.

As Centrelink shares further personal data to defend criticisms of its debt recovery, the legality of its actions is in question.

The refusal of politicians to define ‘rich’ plays to a social confusion about how well off people actually are.

Long-term mismanagement of Australia’s gas industry has seen price gouging by cartels and the possible need for imports. Even if the government can put things to right, natural gas will never again be a cheap alternative fossil fuel.