Nick Feik

Stopping the boats is not enough to save Syrian refugees

The treasurer needs to find some new solutions for our slowing economy

The Abbott government has no intention of cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions

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 …

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 …

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 …

The 2015 budget has come and gone, but where is Joe Hockey's National Conversation?

George Brandis’ arts money grab will not win him many friends

Sometimes you don’t need a Senate inquiry to work out what’s going on