September 4, 2015
By the numbers
Today
Stopping the boats is not enough to save Syrian refugees
Nick Feik
By this author
August 11, 2015
Dishonesty is the worst policy
blog
The Abbott government has no intention of cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions
September 3, 2015
Hockeynomics
Today
The treasurer needs to find some new solutions for our slowing economy
July 31, 2015
Editor’s Note August 2015
blog
The asylum-seeker issue reared its head again this week, following the ALP’s policy reversal on turnbacks and revelations that Australia returned a boatload of Vietnamese asylum seekers to the place from which they fled. Meanwhile, up to a million Rohingya …
June 26, 2015
Editor’s Note July 2015
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Was anyone seriously suggesting that we didn’t already have sufficient laws to deal with terrorism? No. The citizenship issue is about national identity, and the right to dictate to whom it, and the law, applies. If Tony Abbott is choosing to exclude …
June 1, 2015
Editor’s Note June 2015
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The Greens have changed leaders and “the Tasmanian era is over”, as Amanda Lohrey writes. The transition from Christine Milne to Richard Di Natale was a smooth one, and for all the criticism she faced during her time as leader, Milne left the party …
June 1, 2015
Best laid plans
Politics
The 2015 budget has come and gone, but where is Joe Hockey's National Conversation?
May 21, 2015
Champagne government
Today
George Brandis’ arts money grab will not win him many friends
May 19, 2015
The blindingly obvious
Today
Sometimes you don’t need a Senate inquiry to work out what’s going on
May 15, 2015
Lady problems
Today
The government’s cuts to parental leave and aggressive rhetoric risk alienating half the population
May 13, 2015
Kicking the can down the road
Today
Last night’s budget does little but put problems off for another year
April 23, 2015
Editor’s Note May 2015
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When the Monthly’s publisher, Morry Schwartz, launched the magazine in 2005, he insisted that its success would rest on the quality of its writing. The Monthly isn’t pitted against other politics and current affairs magazines any …
March 26, 2015
Editor’s Note April 2015
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When Julie Bishop rolled her eyes while seated behind Treasurer Joe Hockey in parliament last Monday, she was expressing several things at once. The first was that she was not at all impressed by the Expenditure Review Committee, which Hockey slyly mentioned …