With the collapse of Murdoch’s takeover plan for Ten, something else ended: the designs for his Sky roster to take a de facto Fox News to the mainstream.

Legislation for same-sex marriage overseas provides a series of natural experiments on social, economic and personal benefits.

Following revelations about inappropriate dealings with irrigators, the first of six inquiries finds a regulator captured by vested interests.

The federal government is ignoring the realities of climate change – mirroring trends towards inaction in American politics.

The ‘Yes’ campaign is refusing to get sidetracked by bitter personal fights with those opposed to same-sex marriage, focusing instead on inclusion.

A senate inquiry will consider how donations to political parties influence policy and how they’re hidden, calling on representatives from the biggest donors in the mining and banking industries to explain what they’re buying.

While most religious leaders accept climate change, the Christian right in Australia and the US make scepticism a tenet of their politics.

The government is waging a multifaceted campaign to reduce the influence of charities, requiring disclosure of how donations are spent, seeking to ban electoral campaigning if overseas funds are received, and choosing not to renew the tenure of the respected head of the sector’s regulatory body.

After leaving her post as president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs is as forthright as ever in describing the country’s slide backwards in its social policies and treatment of the vulnerable.