Did you notice what was different, really different, about the budget this year?

There has been a lot said about trust and honesty in politics in the days since Labor handed down its budget, but not a lot has had to do with integrity.

April was another jam-packed month here at the Institute!

Australia has been in the grip of housing crisis for years.

In 2014, Noel Pearson delivered an eulogy for Gough Whitlam. Professor Tom Clark wrote about it for The Conversation and said “Pearson came to praise Caesar on Wednesday, certainly not to bury him” as he listed the achievements of one of Australia’s greatest reformers. Pearson said he was speaking to “this old man’s legacy with no partisan brief” but named

For a lot of Australians, life has become much more expensive.

March was a busy month here at the Australia Institute!

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

There are just under 200 countries in the world and Australia is in the G20.

Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions.

Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now” (whatever that means, the LNP’s Phil Thompson), they did this.

Something happened in the Senate this week.

When Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen won last week’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, along with the $25,000 Indigenous Writing prize, she called on the Australian government to change the way it taxes arts prizes. Araluen won for her poetry collection, The Rot, described by the judges as “a work of remarkable poetic intelligence;

It’s been a busy month here at the Australia Institute!

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy! After all, that’s how politicians and the media describe the gas industry. But the truth is the federal government collects more money from the beer excise than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, as Independent ACT Senator David Pocock pointed out in Parliament,

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy!

The rise of One Nation creates a surprising opportunity for progressive voters.

After months of speculation, the Liberal Party has a new leader, and the Coalition has a new frontbench. So, does that mean we can expect some new ideas?

This week, Australia rolled out the red carpet for a world leader who has been accused of inciting genocide, while NSW police were caught on camera bashing people protesting against genocide.

In five days, Anthony Albanese will become Australia’s longest-serving prime minister since John Howard.

Australians have been lectured a lot in the past couple of years about social cohesion, but it reached a fever pitch this week in response to protests against the visit by Israel’s head of state.

The first Labor national government anywhere in the world was elected in Australia in April 1904.

Our first month of 2026 was an eventful one!

Last weekend, music fans across Australia tuned into national youth music station Triple J for the 33rd annual Hottest 100.

We are about to head back into parliament – and the sitting year proper – with one of the major parties again focused on itself, and the other doing all it can to ensure the focus remains on its rivals.

Anyone interested in politics would have heard the paraphrased Plato quote at some point – “one of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”.

The biggest loser in the political brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Labor lured Sussan Ley and the Liberals into with the hate group legislation no one wanted is, as always, the public.

Sussan Ley started 2026 much like she ended 2025 – extending her tenuous hold on the Liberal Party leadership by politicising tragedy.