This Month
Liberals seek to follow No vote with Victorian push
MPs believe the Labor-held seat of McEwen could turn blue after 61 per cent of voters rejected the Voice in the referendum, but locals aren’t convinced.
- Gus McCubbing
‘We are hurting’: The remote town that voted 92pc Yes
Wadeye is a community of nearly 2000, deeply divided by 22 clan groups, but on the question of if there should be an Indigenous Voice to parliament, it was united.
- Ronald Mizen
Ethnic Chinese vote leant to Yes
Most of the electorates with a large Chinese Australian population voted Yes, but one Liberal MP believes this has more to do with wealth, youth and location.
- Gus McCubbing
September
‘Refreshed’ Palaszczuk ready for election
The Queensland Premier returned from her holiday in Italy determined defy poor opinion polls.
- Mark Ludlow
August
Byelection victory a ‘referendum’ on Andrews government: Liberals
The Liberals have claimed that a resounding byelection win shows Victorians are sick of Daniel Andrews, despite Labor not running a candidate.
- Gus McCubbing
Byelection test for Victorian Liberals after Games debacle
Nicole Werner, Liberal candidate in the Warrandyte byelection, says her connections to an evangelical megachurch won’t cause her problems at the voting booth/
- Gus McCubbing
The $7b fund for projects commercial lenders won’t back
Some of the projects the federal government’s Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is funding have raised eyebrows.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
How a Labor hero allowed himself to be beaten by Menzies
The conventional wisdom that Liberal leader Robert Menzies used the Petrov defection to deny H.V. Evatt the Lodge is a myth, writes a historian.
- Anne Henderson
July
Generation left: why the right side of politics has a problem
Young people are now less likely to vote for the Coalition than to watch free-to-air TV, while older people are less likely to shift from left to right.
- Julie Hare
Albanese prepares for election-style Voice blitz
Voters are in for a wild ride to the referendum day as Labor and the Coalition get ready to throw everything at the campaign.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor’s honeymoon not over: Albanese
Anthony Albanese has fobbed off the Fadden byelection result, and noted Labor’s national poll numbers were still strong.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Fadden win gives Dutton much-needed leadership vindication
Peter Dutton will take the byelection win to try to persuade the public and his colleagues that the Liberals are on the right track with him as leader after all.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Queensland votes
Queenslanders back mining royalty cuts
New polling shows almost half of Queenslanders support reducing coal royalties to encourage big miners, like BHP, to invest in future projects in the state.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
June
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
The Liberals’ problem isn’t the brand, it’s the philosophy
The political program of small government, more choice and more personal responsibility is not appealing to voters after years of COVID and in economic tough times.
- John Roskam
Australia is leaning left - leaving the Coalition in serious danger
It’s not just young voters who are more likely to vote for progressive parties, older voters are voting left for longer.
- Julie Hare
Fadden byelection a chance to protest the Voice: Dutton
Anthony Albanese has urged the voters of Fadden to consider the chequered history of departed minister Stuart Robert at next month’s byelection.
- Phillip Coorey
Caps on political donations to keep ‘big money’ out of elections
But the teal independent movement argues caps set too low could nobble their ability to compete with the entrenched major parties.
- Andrew Tillett
Liberals select Nicole Werner for crucial Warrandyte byelection
Ms Werner won out from a group of nine nominees including 22-year-old Antonietta Di Cosmo, and Institute of Public Affairs senior fellow John Roskam.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Van should make own call on being called out
Parliament should be focused on how to revive Australia’s flatlining post-pandemic productivity to help bring inflation down and get real wages going.
- The AFR View
More investment, fewer taxes, ‘normal’ MPs: Pesutto’s Liberal vision
“Comeback kid” John Pesutto rails against unfair taxes and calls for more investment in jobs as part of a road map for the Liberal Party’s return to relevance in Victoria.
- Gus McCubbing
