Laura Tingle is the chief political correspondent for nightly current affairs program 7.30. One of Australia's best journalists and top political analysts, she's spent most of her 35-year career in journalism reporting on Australian federal politics, and the country's major policy debates.
A journalist, author and essayist, she was formerly the political editor of The Australian Financial Review.
The start of Albanese's election campaign came as Justin Trudeau's prime ministership hit the fence and Elon Musk became the world's biggest political oxygen thief by buying into UK and German politics.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli opens up on his plans to use the federal election to his advantage.
You may have noticed, even as the 2024 political year trudges to an unedifying close, that people are still referring to the possibility of an "early election".
The opposition finally unveiled its much-promised nuclear energy costings on Friday. It will be hoping Labor continues to prove it is not very good at politics.
It is one thing to take issue with the federal government's position on a resolution to the UN but another to argue it has caused rising anti-Semitic attacks in Australia.
The decisions the Reserve Bank makes affect the rest of us, and therefore should continue not to be taken lightly — whichever board might make them.
If Peter Dutton has dominated politics this week it is because he has dominated the political agenda this year, as well as this week, even with his rare appearances before the Canberra Press Gallery.
The cheap points of politics means we have little sensible debate about fixing our migration system so that it works better for everyone, and for the economy. A looming election only appears likely to make sensible debate even more unattainable.
Australia's election campaign will not be fought in the way the US race was fought: as a battle between rage or joy. But we should despair that it will feature little of the policy rigour or ambition that economists like Geoff Carmody brought to battles gone by.
Questions are being raised about how alleged war crimes by the Australian Defence Force are investigated, following the response to the Brereton inquiry.
The reality of the Middle East conflict is that of an ever-widening fight between two terrorist organisations and an increasingly militant state that is ignoring international calls for restraint, including from its most powerful ally.
Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean says expert advice differs to what Peter Dutton says about nuclear and renewables being companions not competitors.
Australia's housing crisis is a perfect storm of issues that requires a reset of the housing debate which so far has not been able to happen in the poisonous political competition of 2024.
Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood says she welcomes concessions made by the Albanese government to put clearer scrutiny of proposals for industry assistance into its Future Made in Australia legislation.
For those with long political memories, there has been a bit of deja vu all over again in federal politics this week.
With the national accounts this week showing the economy barely registering a pulse, more oxygen was expended on accusing the treasurer of being mean to the Reserve Bank than on what is happening in the economy.
The 2026 census questions on gender and sexual orientation that have been at the centre of a political brawl for the past week have been revealed to the ABC.
The governor-general will soon receive the final report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans Suicide. Grieving families are hoping it will lead to lasting change.
The Greens and the Coalition seemingly have the government stuck in a game of piggy in the middle, desperately trying to catch the ball as it is thrown between its two major political opponents.
Politics is a rough business and not for the faint-hearted but politicians railing about people being vilified should look twice at the way they treat those in wildly unequal positions of power.
The opposition leader's capacity to conflate a range of hot button issues, half-truths and misleading assertions is only matched by the federal government's often flat-footed capacity to respond.
The idea that Australia may have signed up for "political commitments" such as accepting nuclear waste, but we aren't allowed to know, is simply outrageous.
The dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 has long overshadowed another monumental event in Australian political history from that era.
This week's inflation numbers have spared the Reserve Bank — and the indebted — the spectre of another rate rise. But it hasn't made the problem go away — for the bank or the government.
The CFMEU's history gives us a window into Australia's economic, political and industrial landscape over the past 40 years.