Joseph Poprzeczny

The voting public is quickly running out of patience with the Abbott government’s inaction, and seeming inability to offer a clear pathway ahead.

China’s growing hyper-nationalism threatens the peace and security of its neighbours, and the world.

Labor needs to have a serious discussion about its fiscal failings if it is to attract new members.

The media’s sanctimonious approach by some media to the phone-tapping allegations is a bit rich.

The AEC needs to work harder to protect the right to a secret ballot we inherited from the efforts of Australian pioneers.

Clive Palmer and his troops need to get down to work if PUP is to be anything other than a party of protest.

The ability to pay for the needs of our ageing population will be a test of the Abbott government, and all those after it.

The Abbott government may be on the right track with plans to axe the carbon and mining taxes, but after that it’s anyone’s guess.

Kevin Rudd should have stayed gone when his party pushed him from the PM’s office, so now it’s up to the voters to deliver the message.

The so-called PNG solution is a band-aid measure designed to sweep the issue of boat people under the carpet.

Kevin Rudd has an image problem – he’s too concerned with his image to work at developing good policy.

Kevin Rudd has yet to convince many that he can be a leader of substance, rather than just style.

There will be winners if Australia introduces an emissions trading scheme, but it won’t be the taxpaying public.

Kevin Rudd has got the jump on the conservatives when it comes to fostering better labour relations.

Who believes Kevin Rudd has anything different to offer this time around?

    Scandals in state Labor parties have compounded the failings of the Rudd-Gillard government(s).

The Gonski reforms threaten to further bureaucratise schools.

Poor policy implementation and Kevin Rudd’s destabilising presence have cruelled Labor’s electoral chances.

Time’s running out for the US, in particular, to sort out its debt issues.

With debt getting out of hand, maybe it’s time we rethink how borrowing decisions are made at a national level, and by whom.

It’s so easy to forget that public debt has caused considerable strife for Australia.

ASIO needs powers to make sure those formerly employed by government agencies, who now act as lobbyists and consultants with overseas powers, achieve outcomes in Australia’s national interest.

Fear mongering over the size of Australia’s population is founded in ignorance.

Australians wisely adopted a federation with restrictions on the central government, something Julia Gillard has worked hard to undermine.

There can be no doubting the breadth of Margaret Thatcher’s influence, even after her passing.

The prime minister is in a class of her own for several reasons ... not many of them positive.

The ascension of Argentinean Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy could turn politics in South America on its head.

The comfortable margin at last week’s state election would have surprised some Liberal insiders.

China’s actions in the South China Sea have raised regional tensions, and should be closely watched.

Ray O’Connor’s role in helping Ric New develop the state’s residential building sector is probably the least known of his many ‘achievements’.

Federal Labor’s faction leaders need to think carefully before choosing the party’s new leader after what’s likely to be a devastating result in the September poll.

The Arab Spring hasn’t unfolded the way many in the West would have wanted, with famine now a real possibility in Egypt.