Politics abhors a vacuum

Mark Davis and Miriam Lyons outline the main themes of the new book, More Than Luck: Ideas Australia Needs Now

13 Aug 10 | Comments (0)

Family guy

Tony Abbott’s family is playing an unprecedented role in this election, but will it shift votes, asks Stephanie Younane Brookes

10 Aug 10 | Comments (0)

Digging up a scandal

The story of how two journalists unearthed the Securency scandal shows what would be lost if newspapers stop funding investigative journalism. They talked to Peter Clarke

18 Jun 10 | Comments (1)

The risky politics of apolitical advertising

The federal government has increased the stakes in the debate over mining taxes. Stephanie Younane Brookes looks at the thinking behind the government’s ad blitz – and at the ads themselves

09 Jun 10 | Comments (0)

Nine-tenths of the law

Sydney’s media moguls took off the gloves on a winter’s night in 1960 – and the Packers lost, writes Rodney Tiffen

03 Jun 10 | Comments (1)

Inside Conroy’s Implement

What does $25 million worth of consultancy conclude about the national broadband network, asks Jock Given

16 May 10 | Comments (2)

If we don’t do it, who will?

Graham Perkin’s news editor, Geoffrey Barker, discusses Ben Hills’s biography of the legendary newspaper editor

12 May 10 | Comments (0)

Group thoughts

The Australian talks about climate change with (almost) one voice, writes Rodney Tiffen in this analysis of the paper’s coverage of the glacier controversy

01 Apr 10 | Comments (3)

A mess? A shambles? A disaster?

Most coverage of the home insulation controversy ignored history and avoided simple mathematics, writes Rodney Tiffen

26 Mar 10 | Comments (22)

Authenticity and the ABC

Six months into the job, the ABC’s director of news, Kate Torney, talks to Peter Clarke about where the national broadcaster is headed

16 Nov 09 | Comments (2)