This week's column was about a lot of things, including party discipline and topics not discussed enough and voices outside the parliament. But this is the bit I'd like more people to think about:

If we want to live in a world in which individual human and civil rights mean anything, certain groups in society must not be allowed to behave with impunity. abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

Grattan on Friday: Sussan Ley has her first big outing with the national media next week, so here are some questions for her theconversation.com/grattan-on-fri… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

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Last week, Jim Chalmers set a new tone and goal for Labor's second term. There's no backing out now. This week's column

An important reminder from Richard Holden that a tax reform grand bargain brings the opportunity to fix other issues too

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

The things that governments leave behind typically involve shifts to the way a nation sees itself. Back this week after a few weeks away from the column

The Daily Express is a right wing British newspaper that spends most of its time bashing immigrants. That it has devoted its front page to the starvation of Gaza is a sign of how dire the situation has become and how impossible it is to ignore.