Voters say Turnbull best to handle tax reform: Newspoll

Mar 21, 2016 07:48 am UTC| Politics

Malcolm Turnbull is 20 points ahead of Bill Shorten as the leader more capable of managing tax reform in a Newspoll that has the Coalition slightly improving its two-party position in the past fortnight to lead Labor...

Turnbull ultimatum: July 2 double dissolution unless reconvened Senate passes industrial relations bills

Mar 21, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Politics

In dramatic move, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has had the governor-general recall parliament for a special session and issued an ultimatum that he will call a July 2 double-dissolution election if the Senate does not...

Iain Duncan Smith resignation: flesh wound or fatal blow for Tory leadership?

Mar 20, 2016 16:11 pm UTC| Politics

If there were a Richter Scale of Political Resignations, then prime ministers such as Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson and Harold Macmillan would register at the very top on nine. Big beasts such as Conservative...

Workers would benefit from lowering company tax: Sinodinos

Mar 20, 2016 15:57 pm UTC| Politics Law

Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos has made a strong pitch for giving priority to a company tax cut cut in the coming budget as the best way to boost growth, with a significant flow on for workers. As the budgets tax...

US Election Series

Frogs and Lions, Donkey and Horse … Wolf! Can the Elephant Really Cry “Trump!”?

Mar 20, 2016 15:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Frogs and Lions In a very old play called The Frogs, the protagonists (who find themselves in Hades) are treated to a poetic contest between the great Greek tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides. It is the older poet...

US Election Series

Trump, Trump, Trump...

Mar 19, 2016 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

During recent weeks, as election fever grows more intense, all American democrats have been handed a bouquet of viperous questions: When does public incitement to violence by a candidate for high office legitimately...

Emerging Market Crisis Series

Brazilian spring: what's behind the latest protests?

Mar 18, 2016 15:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Contrary to how it may seem today mass protests in Brazil were until recently a relatively rare occurrence. But since 2011, the country seems to have entered a contentious cycle, when repeated and growing mobilisations...