Sam Dastyari Articles

Australia has a new prime minister, again Malcolm Turnbull has long been Tony Abbott’s nemesis. My first contact with both was as a teenager campaigning for Australia to become a republic at the 1999 referendum. Turnbull was leading the Australian Republican Movement,...

On the last Saturday in January, the people of Queensland kicked out a conservative government, led by former army officer and lord mayor of Brisbane, Campbell Newman. The result astonished everyone, including the Queensland state Labor party. On the eve of the vote,...

There is nothing newsworthy about politicians breaking promises nowadays. Yet the conservative Australian government led by prime minister Tony Abbott has handed down its first budget since coming to office - and it turns out that this budget of broken promises was...