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Lidija Ivanovski

This Month

He just about burst a blood vessel after Woolworths made a commercial decision to stop stocking Australia Day paraphernalia.

Identity politics lessons for Democrats and Dutton

The anti-incumbent message sent by the US election is primarily about economic concerns. There is a risk the opposition leader overplays the ‘war on woke’ message at the next election.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he sits in a garbage truck Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Why millions of Americans hold their nose and vote for Trump

Australians might wonder how this race is even close. But for voters who think they haven’t got much left to hang on to, it’s easy to feel you’ve got nothing to lose.

October

By election night in 2025, Adam Bandt may end up thinking Kermit the Frog was right.

Politically speaking, it’s not so easy being Green any more

Holding Labor to impossible progressive standards without having to be accountable for outcomes is no longer working for the Greens.

Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers spent the next two-and-a-half weeks smashing Morrison’s ‘cost of living crisis’ all the way to Labor’s resurrection.

Rate cuts likely to save Albanese in 2025

The budget is back in the black and prices are easing. Interest rate relief in the lead-up to the election will complete the prime minister’s winning hand just as it hurt Scott Morrison in 2022.

September

Off we go into the wild blue yonder ...

Is Anthony Albanese fated to lead the last majority government?

Labor may not hold off the Greens, and the Coalition may not recapture the seats it lost to the teals. Another marriage of convenience may beckon.

February

Now it’s Albanese on the front foot once again, and Dutton is left limping into the cooler Canberra months.

Dutton’s stage three lesson is that wreckers have a limited shelf-life

The past few weeks have reminded us that one-trick ponies can’t keep the show going for long.

April 2023

Why wall-to-wall Labor governments won’t be bad this time

There will be no repeat of the federal-state bickering under Kevin Rudd. The legacy of Scott Morrison is that smart political leaders know that voters are tired of bickering.

November 2022

Liberal Party leader Matthew Guy, with his wife Renae, concedes defeat at the Liberal Party election party held at Doncaster Bowls Club.

When Libs celebrate holding the heartland something’s seriously wrong

How does Peter Dutton fix the structural collapse of the party in Victoria when he is yet to work out how to show his face in the state?

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