Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an unremarkable story of trauma ...

The RBA is discovering that providing people with more knowledge about its decisions can be hazardous Finance, like politics, runs on information. There’s the kind that’s provided officially, and then ...

What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?

Kiti is a PALM worker, one of about 11,000 employed in meat processing on temporary visas under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. PALM workers now make up almost a quarter of the ...

The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s centre right, and the moderates, whose high-profile ranks have included Malcolm ...

Started by Stanley Kubrick and taken on by Steven Spielberg, the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence has now ‘insinuated itself’ into the present ...

Having chosen not to re-contest his federal seat of Moreton, Labor’s Graham Perrett returned to his first profession – teaching ...

Paul Keating reckoned that if you change the government, you change the country. Presumably the opposite applies: if you re-elect a government, you keep the country just as it is. Which may or may not ...