Northern Rock–return to state intervention

BRITISH PM Gordon Brown has nationalised the Northern Rock bank after attempts to fend off its collapse failed. In a humiliating back flip, his New Labour government has used

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Thumping win for Labor as Dutton’s Trumpism rejected

The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.

MUA: here to stay, but not to slay

The ABC's seven-part podcast “Conspiracy? War on the Waterfront” tells the story of the 1998 waterfront dispute, in which more than 1400 workers were sacked in a full-frontal assault on the Maritime Union of Australia.

Dutton’s support drops, but little on offer from Albanese

It will be a relief if Dutton is kept out of office. But the main reason for a Labor win will not be enthusiasm for Anthony Albanese.