Quentin Dempster
New nuclear arms race brings higher risk of global catastrophe
The world is at its highest risk of a global catastrophe in decades, thanks to an unpredictable resumption in the nuclear arms...
Australia ranks last in affordable broadband
Australia is coming last in affordability rankings for entry-level broadband services. Of developed (OECD) nations, Australia is at 36th. Japan is first,...
NSW budget takes a big hit from property and GST slump
New South Wales is confronting the largest revenue write-downs in its history. On Tuesday, its usually lucrative property stamp duties, the state’s...
Poor Ita Buttrose: The future of her ABC is now at stake in this election
Poor Ita. National treasure Ita Buttrose has taken the chairmanship of the ABC at a crucial time in its history. If the...
‘Sack Alberici, shoot Probyn’: ABC political interference driven by funding fears
A Senate inquiry into allegations of political interference at the ABC has concluded that a fear of funding cuts was behind pressures...
How the Liberals made a demon of Daley to win the election
After it became clear she would retain power in New South Wales, a triumphant Premier Gladys Berejiklian last night declared: “The Liberal...
Get Daley: NSW Coalition goes all out to make Labor leader its bogeyman
The Gladys Berejiklian Coalition government in New South Wales has mounted a no-holds-barred blitz against Labor’s new leader Michael Daley to try...
Stadium stoush is bruising NSW government’s re-election hopes
With just two weeks to go to the state election, a political stoush over Sydney’s Allianz Stadium has galvanised New South Wales...
PM’s anti-corruption commission is a picture of impotence
No public hearings? Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission is deeply flawed in its current conception under the authorship of...
ACCC’s Fairfax-Nine means less diversity and a new media baron
Competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has green-lighted the death of Fairfax Media, the institution that has been a foundational...