Amy Remeikis
‘The least they can do’: We finally find out what Labor will do with its second term
The first week of the 48th Parliament was very revealing. Regular readers would know the question we have been asking is “what...
‘Diplomatic maturity’: Australia in the global order and the slipstream of competing interests
In the time since the last Parliament sat, the whole world has changed – again. Donald Trump has flip flopped on Ukraine...
America’s AUKUS, PBS push forces Australia toward sovereignty red line
Former Labor prime minister Ben Chifley famously didn’t own a dinner suit. He wore what he wanted, and if a lounge suit...
The Liberals haven’t changed, they’ve just worked out when to keep their mouths shut
This week, press gallery doyenne Michelle Grattan wrote about political and news cycles and how the two work. Grattan, who among her...
What our politicians do is as important as what they say, or don’t say
A lot of the time, we in the media like to pretend that politics is very complicated. But we would say that....
Australia’s leaders must decide whose interests they put first – ours or Trump’s
Australia doesn’t even need to wait until it receives the AUKUS submarines to hand sovereignty to the United States. The response to...
If events around the world are sending you insane you’re not alone, and there’s a name for it
If you feel like you are going a little insane at the moment, you’re not alone. Social media screens show the breakdown...
Where does ‘America first’ leave Australia?
Trump’s America does not care about Australia. The review into AUKUS that has sent the national security apparatus into meltdown is nothing...
While we stare at the Trump-Musk trash fire, real issues continue to burn for real people
For people who watch politics as entertainment, waking up on Friday was like Christmas, your birthday and the time your enemy was...
Not climate or housing – no, our moral outrage is saved for taxing the rich
With everything happening in the world, it is probably easy to miss what is apparently becoming one of the Greatest Issues Of...