Jacob Greber

While the prime minister will forever struggle to shed the perception that he was too slow to recognise the threat to Australia's Jewish community, he is taking action. 

How does a treasurer tell households the government will no longer continue a $300 energy rebate when it's happy to blow $100,000 on three flights?

There has been a shift in the power dynamic between Labor and the mining industry. This week's environmental law reform is its embodiment.

Labor is trying to keep a low profile while the opposition fends off One Nation and Sussan Ley fights for her job.

Liberal shadow cabinet members landed on a plan that has left many inside and outside the party bewildered and confused.

The PM and his government are sitting in the often-fleeting sweet spot that comes early in the second term under our Westminster system of government.

If the Coalition is indeed the living corpse it so often resembles, Watt and his boss Anthony Albanese will have little choice but to sit down with the Greens, a party they often seem to loathe even more than the Liberals, and do a deal.

The federal government's prospects of passing planned changes to environment laws are looking bleak, with opposition hardening from both the Coalition and the Greens.

Former prime minister Malcoim Turnbull says any talk of removing Kevin Rudd as ambassador to the United States should be ignored.

If there was some internal call within the Liberals to show some discipline after the last few weeks, it worked at a basic level. 

This week feels like it's time to officially add Albanese Derangement Syndrome to the diagnostic and statistical manual of political disorders.

Touted in some insider circles as future Labor leadership material, self-identified millennial Anika Wells finds herself in a storm over the nation's emergency triple-0 system.

As a nation, it's as if we're arguing about where to have a family holiday in 2035, and whether we fly economy or business. Meanwhile, nobody can agree on dinner tonight.

A doyenne of the Liberal Party and veteran of leadership battles dating back to the 1980s Howard–Peacock era has chided Andrew Hastie for not being a team player.

The opposition leader survived a bruising post-election fight that left conservatives seething and has been left with no natural allies.

The MAGA president's grip on the Republican party is near total while Albanese holds a sway over his left-leaning caucus like few of his Labor predecessors.

Secretary-General of the OECD and former Coalition finance minister Mathias Cormann suggests Australians keep an open mind to nuclear power, saying there isn't "anything inherently partisan" about the energy source. 

This week in Canberra the government seemed to be getting cold feet on its superannuation tax plan and the Coalition reckoned Labor was being less than transparent.

Labor's strongest governments have often involved vibrant backbenches that took seriously the task of keeping the cabinet on its toes.

If nothing else, this week's roundtable may have started the long overdue debate on difficult topics that was sorely absent during the election campaign. 

As the roundtable nears, the list of ideas has grown longer, more ambitious and often contradictory.

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state, it is only a matter of when and how as the PM bides his time waiting for the right moment.

This is not a normal American administration and these are not normal times. The notion this generation of Australians can stand as aloof observers of far-off events could soon be tested.

Jim Chalmers will throw open the door to a wider debate on potential tax changes at the government's economic reform summit in August as the treasurer hangs a lantern on Labor's "obligation to work out what comes next".

Australia's closest ally is giving a spirited impression of behaving like a cantankerous bear ahead of G7 summit in Canada.