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...
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...
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...
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...
US Election Series: Trump’s ideas opposed by military chief
Mar 18, 2016 11:59 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Another controversy backlash for Donald trump. General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a senate armed force hearing bluntly rejected US Republican front runner Donald Trumps ideas to combat...