Karen Barlow

“The Quality and Safeguards Commission and Services Australia, morale was in the toilet. They had to go through the trauma of implementing robodebt when a lot of them just knew it was wrong and misfiring,” the minister for government services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme tells The Saturday Paper.

The unfinished business of the 47th parliament has aggravated fractures at the very top of the Albanese government.

In 2019, then United States president Donald Trump accepted an invitation from Anthony Pratt to cut the ribbon on his new paper and packaging plant in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

Anthony Albanese says the current spate of anti-Semitism sends “shivers down the spine of all Australians” and diminishes the nation.

A new federal tribunal established to increase transparency in government decision-making has not published a single decision in its first two months of operation. Its immediate predecessor routinely released as many as a dozen outcomes, with reasons, every day.

Ten days before Christmas and the usual carols, jolly Santas and decorated trees colour my local Balaclava shopping strip in inner Melbourne. But this year they coincide with the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the nearby Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, a “fuck Israel” sign on the gazebo in my local park, “fuck jews” on a lamppost and, further afield, cars set alight and messages of hate scrawled on fences in Jewish areas of Sydney. Welcome to Australia in 2024.

As the Coalition finally releases its long-delayed nuclear costings, its chosen economic modeller, Danny Price, takes aim at Labor’s numbers.

It is not unusual for opposition leaders to perform better than they should in the polls. It’s a gentle way for voters to register their dissatisfaction. The surprise is that it’s true even for Peter Dutton.

The Coalition is moving to undo the First Nations naming of Australian military bases as it escalates its opposition to race-based symbols and other reconciliation policies.

Despite passing an ambitious suite of legislation in the final sitting week of parliament, Anthony Albanese is seen by focus groups as greedy, timid and too close to corporate Australia.