Australia has always had influence and power, it has just been too cowed to use it.

We need to talk about the Pacific.

Let’s take a bit of a look at responsibility shall we?

Northern Ireland political philosopher Onora O’Neill gave a series of lectures on “trust” in 2002, where she observed it is one of the most important social constructs we can hold:

This shouldn’t be new information to anyone who has been paying attention, but it is now undeniable. The Coalition is a fringe party, and should be treated as such.

A key problem with the economic roundtable is many of those hauled in to fix Australia’s productivity black hole have spent the past 25 years gunning for more privatisation.

“Prime Minister, how do you get the relationship with Israel back on track from here?”

Canberra is in the grip of Abundance fever, a virus that threatens to overwhelm public policy with a diagnosis of overregulation. For those afflicted, the treatment is to maintain the status quo, but with the sheen of progressivism. The Abundance agenda is being presented as a panacea for all of America’s problems, and therefore also Australia’s problems. It’s shaping

After months of reflection, recriminations and resolute commitments to change, we finally have the first concrete policy position for a government Sussan Ley would lead.

US professor and activist Noam Chomsky used to always advise people who wanted to know the truth to read the business press, because their readers needed to know what was really going on.

Most children with Eastern European relatives will learn this lesson young; a scorpion wants to cross a river but it can not swim. It sees a frog about to get into the river and pleads with it for a ride.

There used to be a myth that News Corp could make or break governments.

The Wrap with Amy Remeikis If there is one thing you can bank on, it is that conservative governments know how to use power. They never shy away from it. If a conservative government wants to change something, it will, and it won’t worry about who it is annoying, or the pushback, or whether or

The first week of the 48th Parliament was very revealing.

Amy Remeikis and Matt Grudnoff preview the first parliamentary sitting week.

Former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley famously didn’t own a dinner suit.

This week, press gallery doyenne Michelle Grattan wrote about political and news cycles and how the two work.

If you feel like you are going a little insane at the moment, you’re not alone.

If anyone knows what is going on in the National party, could you please stand up? Interested parties in the Nationals would love to know.

With the influence of its historical opponents waning, is anything standing in the way of the Labor Government passing ambitious reforms?

We are about to see who the Australian Labor Party really is, in 2025.

Amy Remeikis and Bill Browne discuss the federal election campaign so far, the performance of the media, and how preferential voting actually works.

Polls point to a power-sharing government being the most likely outcome at the upcoming federal election, but how do they actually work?

If the Western Australian government agrees to Woodside’s proposal to extend the export of the state’s domestic gas, it will be locking in higher energy prices for West Australians for the long term –  for very little in return. 

Amy Remeikis joins us to reflect on Anthony Albanese’s turbulent year as Prime Minister and preview the federal election campaign.

As dramatic changes to South Australian electoral law pass the house of review (Legislative Council), voters could be forgiven for wondering “what just happened?”

A week ago, no one had seen the government’s revised Electoral (Accountability and Integrity) Amendment Bill 2024. Now, it’s set to become law.

Amy Remeikis and the Director of The Australia Institute’s Democracy and Accountability Program, Bill Browne, unpack how we got here … and what should happen next.

Welcome to The Australia Institute, Amy Remeikis

Amy is one of Australia’s most respected political observers.

She proudly swims against the tide of spin which swirls around the Canberra bubble.

This is her first column for The Australia Institute.