What will this election look like? What tactics might the major parties use against each other?

What can Australians expect from the major parties in terms of tax policy? Should they worry about Scott Morrison’s claims that Labor’s $387 billion 'tax bomb' will plunge the country into recession?

In this special series from Policy Forum and The Australian National University, Mark Kenny leads a weekly discussion on the issues, policies, and politics of Australia’s election campaign. In the first episode, Mark and guests Shirley Leitch, Andrew Hughes, and Bob McMullan take a look at an opening week dominated by tax, personality politics, and social media campaigning.

What should Australia expect from the election campaign? Andrew Hughes sets the scene.

Though the recent National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework may allow Australia to improve its response to climate change-related natural disasters, without introducing more pre-emptive measures, increased funding means very little, Paul Barnes, Anthony Bergin, and Robert Glasser write.

If the Australian Government is serious about tackling the big issues facing law enforcement, it’ll need more than the $512 million announced in this week’s budget, John Coyne writes.