
Paul Bongiorno: PM shirks duty in gold-standard quarantine blame game
When it comes to the managing of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, there is plenty of blame to go around. But don’t...

Scott Morrison’s COVID luck won’t last if Australia burns
Scott Morrison is ending the year in much better shape than he began it, but it is as much due to good...

Paul Bongiorno: Surviving the silly season will be the easy part for political leaders
Final sitting weeks of the parliamentary year are historically “killing fields” for federal party leaders stalked by ambitious rivals feeding on the...

Paul Bongiorno: Atrocious decisions all the way up the chain of command
Scott Morrison has pulled rank over the Chief of the Defence Force and wittingly or unwittingly has exposed who really is the...

Paul Bongiorno: Australia’s failed China policy is very bad business
Somehow Australia has ended up making an enemy of its biggest trading partner and the world’s emerging economic superpower. To say that...

Paul Bongiorno: Joe Biden’s tax promise for working Americans challenges Australia’s ‘fair go’
Since the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States much focus has been on his ambitious climate...

Paul Bongiorno: Climate ambitions stir trouble for Morrison and Albanese
The incoming Biden administration in the United States has already formed the view that Australia is not a like-minded country on combatting...

Paul Bongiorno: Choice words can be a vote of confidence in elections
By Australian standards the fault lines in the American presidential election have broadened into a chasm of extremes. The most obvious manifestation...

Paul Bongiorno: Mates rates ethos is selling Australia short
The business model for running the country, which has been holy writ for governments of all persuasions since the 1980s, is no...

Audit watchdog barks despite government shortening the leash
A little noticed mid-term review by Australia’s Auditor General of his own work goes a long way to highlighting why the Morrison...