Politics & Economy
Today the Government has successfully moved a motion to clamp down on the amount of time allowed for debating matters...
This month Aceh swore in its new governor, former rebel Irwandi Yusuf. Yusuf’s meteoric rise to power reflects the changes...
Education
2007 is an election year and education is one of the hot topics. A paper published this week by the...
Politician’s bank on the electorate’s short memory. It was only last year John Howard was urging the youth to consider...
A new book suggests that Australia’s democracy has sustained an attack on the very institutions that are supposed to keep...
Science & Environment
This week the Federal Government and Labor continue to trade blows on environmental issues like water and climate change. With...
The Northern Territory was the first jurisdiction in Australia to allow terminally ill patients to choose when to end their...
Pauline Hanson is back – having long finished serving her term in jail for electoral fraud, she has announced her...
As the week wears on in Fiji, the fallout from the coup is starting to be understood as sanctions fall...
Since being given the new post of leader on Monday, Kevin Rudd has certainly made a go of making himself...