Elias Visontay -- The Australian -- 2 April 2019 Jewish groups are furious over “hatred-inciting” comments accusing Israel of “genocide” made by the lead organiser of the Greens’ campaign in Melbourne’s most Jewish electorate. David Jeffery, a staffer for Greens candidate Steph Hodgins-May in the seat of...
James Paterson -- Australian Financial Review -- 1 April 2018 Tomorrow Josh Frydenberg will hand down the first surplus budget since Peter Costello was treasurer. The road back to surplus has been too hard and too long. Putting in place default budget settings that are taxpayer-friendly...
Richard Ferguson -- The Australian -- 9 March 2019 Far-right firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos is set to be allowed into Australia despite $50,000 in debts to Victoria Police, with Immigration Minister David Coleman preparing to intervene in his case. It is understood Mr Coleman is not convinced by...
James Eyers, Joanna Mather, and John Kehoe -- Australian Financial Review -- 5 March 2019 AustralianSuper chairman Heather Ridout has told the government to stop politicising how the $145 billion investor manages its holdings, saying trustees, whether from industry or unions, "leave their hats" at the...
Michael Roddan and Andrew White -- The Australian -- 5 March 2019 Transport Workers Union national secretary Michael Kaine has pledged to pressure superannuation funds to pursue companies over workplace standards, attacking a move by Josh Frydenberg to seek new regulatory powers to block union activism...
Jennifer Duke -- The Age -- 18 February 2019 A Liberal senator and Macquarie Telecom have hit back at Huawei, accusing it of trying to “intimidate” companies like Telstra and Google from supporting a think-tank critical of the Chinese telco equipment provider. Huawei Technologies Australia director of...
James Paterson -- The Australian Financial Review -- 14 January 2019 Young Australians are poorly served by a superannuation system that shamefully favours the interests of providers over consumers. That's why the Productivity Commission's call for reform is so compelling. Like many young people, I worked a...
Primrose Riordan -- The Australian -- 1 January 2019 The chair of parliament’s intelligence and security committee, Andrew Hastie, says the detention of two Canadians in China vindicates those who advocated against Australia ratifying an extradition treaty with Beijing. Mr Hastie’s intervention came as Foreign Minister Marise...
Simon Benson and Primrose Riorden -- The Australian -- 31 October 2018 Scott Morrison has hit back at Indonesia, warning he would not be dictated to on foreign policy by another country, after Malcolm Turnbull said the decision to consider moving Australia’s embassy in Israel from...
Jack Houghton -- Daily Telegraph -- 29 October 2018 Millions of tax dollars allocated for "wacky" research projects has prompted a call for greater government oversight in the grants process. Former education minister Simon Birmingham was forced to step in and ban 11 projects from being funded...