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‘After that outburst, I became a marked man. Things would never be quite as good for me again.’

Federal Parliament resumes today with the government under pressure on the state of the economy, and Julia Gillard celebrates the 30th anniversary of Labor’s gender quotas.

Wayne Swan went to America in April 2008 poised to slash and burn in his first budget. He returned with a very different focus, one that impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians.

Lisa Wilkinson’s lawyers are arguing that she had little say in the broadcast that broke Brittany Higgins’ allegations against Bruce Lehrmann, and we say farewell to one of the great Indigenous leaders.

Everyone agrees the 2014 budget was a disaster, right? Here’s why, economically, it was actually pretty sound.

The left has rallied around ‘taxing the rich’, as if tax were a punishment. But it shouldn’t be seen that way.

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Next week the Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. It’s the first face-to-face conference in five years. These conferences don’t have anything like the bite they once did, but there’s still a chance for the party’s rank and file to have a shout about issues. More than…

This week’s appointment of Wayne Swan’s former chief of staff Chris Barrett to head the Productivity Commission puts the annual Trade and Assistance Review it released this month under a more searching spotlight than usual.