Brexit, Trump, and Hanson: The Turning Point in Modern Politics

By Mark Morey
Secretary of Unions NSW

The contemporary political challenge is confronting. Rules which appeared unbreakable for decades are suddenly looking flimsy. The economic and behavioural theories that underpinned it are being found wanting.

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Value Capture and Sustainable Infrastructure

By Michael Daley
Shadow Minister for Gaming and Racing
Shadow Minister for Planning and Infrastructure
Deputy Leader of the Opposition

Sydney is home to 4 million people. By 2031 it is predicted to be a city of 6 million. Within the lifetime of most of the people reading this, we will see Sydney grow to a city of 8 million people – the size of London today.

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The Hardest Thing I Ever Did - Keating and Native Title

By Michael Lee

Twenty-five years ago, only two months after being elected Labor Leader, Paul Keating stood in the House of Representatives, to deliver an address that outlined Labor’s economic plan to build infrastructure to grow the nation out of recession.

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New Thinking (and Funding) Required on Domestic Violence

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By Jenny Aitchinson MP
Shadow Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

"It is time to start a conversation which includes practitioners across the field...and to start calculating the real costs to our health and community welfare system."

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Labor and Small Business

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“The Liberal Party are the party of small business.” We hear this tired old line trotted out by our political opponents election after election. It has no substance, no policy to back it up, just an empty statement of good intentions."

- Member for Rockdale, Steve Kamper MP

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Addressing inequality is the challenge of our generation

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"But the ideal of a fair go is withering under a direct assault from the Liberal Party and neo-liberal economics, who have rigged the game in favour of the big end of town and a tiny elite."

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