All the states have adopted four-year maximum parliamentary terms without much fanfare, and yet at a federal level Australia has stayed at three years. Is it time for Australia to just bite the ...

'Leaders of the major political parties need to look at their own internal processes before attempting to persuade voters to support four-year terms.' All the states have adopted four-year maximum ...

‘You don’t, but it’s easier to run a hospital with all the patients sleeping.’ The Final Programme, 1968 “Easiest way to run the world, for that matter,” Jerry Cornelius replies in the ...

We suspected oil and gas lobbying was reaching cyclonic intensity, pressuring governments to approve the final components of one of the largest fossil fuel developments in the country’s history.

After 1,000 submissions, a heated debate session, and one very enthusiastic winner (congrats, Max!), the Shitstirrers Index has become one of Crikey’s most successful initiatives. How can I tell?

While other media outlets suck up to the rich and powerful under the guise of doing a “list”, this year Crikey wants to recognise a higher honour: being a shitstirrer. We’ve assembled our ...

The inevitable cacophony from the galahs of the economic commentariat about “out of control” spending and budget deficits that followed yesterday’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook ...

'While the political class might not be ready to accept that hung parliaments are here to stay, voters seem to be, with the major party vote continuing its long downward trajectory.' That’s not ...

We began Crikey’s Movers and Shakers series with a look at what the biggest names in Australian journalism considered to be the last great piece of journalism they read. We finish the series ...

The 24-hour collapse of Dutton’s cunning nuclear news cycle — from Friday’s front-page banner, through the ABC same-day number-crunching, to its great vanishing on the weekend — will be ...

For weeks, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has allowed the media to claim that this year’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) would show a marked deterioration in the budget due to softer ...

For some time, former Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo has been engaged — primarily via News Corp papers — in a campaign of Nixonian rehabilitation, posing as a magisterial geopolitical ...