With so many design faults, the Mersey Hospital takeover will have engine failure before it leaves the garage, write Jennifer Doggett and Edwina Burns.

Eva Cox takes the child care rebate for a spin and finds it wanting.

Labor's pledge to keeping pumping valuable education dollars into the Coalition's wasteful SES funding scheme is bad policy, writes Lyndsay Connors.

The home savings accounts proposed by Labor and the Coalition will be expensive to maintain and won't have much impact on housing affordability, write Ben Eltham and Anna Tweeddale.

Both major parties are selling balance and flexibility, but there's not much under the bonnet, writes Mark Bahnisch

Why keep two technical training systems on the road when neither is worthy of a pink slip, asks Ben Eltham.