Fazzari, SMH, 19 Jul 2014
Carbon price repeal
- Sara Phillips: The carbon price monster the village grew to fear
- Jack Waterford: Labor leader Bill Shorten raises climate temperature
- Greg Jericho: Why an actual climate ‘reform’ is being axed
- Fergus Green: Australia’s carbon price repeal: The global context
- Simon Copland: Coalition losing its grip on carbon tax mandate
- Laura Tingle: Labor, Coalition already eying next election
- Peter Hartcher: How parlour politics trumped problem-solving and doomed the carbon tax
Clive Palmer
- Anne Twomey: Leashing the PUPs in the Senate
- Ben Eltham: Clive Palmer votes to reduce tax on own companies
- Lenore Taylor: Populist Palmer out-manoeuvres the Coalition
- Piping Shrike: The confusions of anti-politics
Asylum seekers
- Tad Tietze: Why we shouldn’t blame voters for our appalling asylum policies
- Sean Kelly: Scott Morrison, the minister of truth
- Andrew Street: Scott Morrison and the Conveniently Comforting Doctrine of Predestination
Budget
- Dennis Atkins: Putting the shine back on Joe Hockey’s tarnished Budget
- Mark Kenny: Joe Hockey needs to change tack in budget offensive
Labor
- Sophie Morris: Faulkner expects state conference defeat on party reform
Other thinkiness
- Peter Burdon: After the carbon tax: crisis mongering does not help
- Tim Dunlop: The myth of the ‘sensible middle’ in politics
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