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Climate 200 raising funds for High Court fight over donations laws
Independents would have lost $11 million if Labor’s new donations laws applied to the 2025 election, Climate 200 says, vowing to help a High Court challenge.
Test of faith: Inside Labor’s rethink after Bondi
Pollsters warn that while gun laws are popular, Labor risks a backlash if it ignores fears regarding migration and radical ideologies.
Former Liberal MP Katie Allen dies after cancer battle
Dr Allen represented the Melbourne seat of Higgins from 2019 to 2022, entering politics after being a paediatrician for more than two decades.
Labor loses skin over expenses scandal but keeps strong poll lead
Voters have sent a warning to the government following a week of scandal over the use of parliamentary entitlements, but the Albanese government is still well ahead.
5 things to look out for in MYEFO (and where to find them)
Previous treasurers set quantitative fiscal rules for themselves against which the government’s performance could be measured. Not this one.
December 2025
The Liberal Party’s ‘better economic managers’ brand is broken
The Australian Election Study found that the party’s traditional advantage has evaporated, making it nearly impossible for it to win a federal election.
‘Minister for scarves’ learns a lesson about judgment
Anika Wells has broken no rules with her enthusiasm for attending sporting events. It’s her judgment that is being questioned.
This summer Ley won’t be on holidays, she’ll be fighting for her job
A lot is starting to go wrong for the government, but it is being masked by the Coalition’s own struggles.
Talk grows about new movement to replace ‘irretrievable’ Liberals
With the Liberal Party at one of its lowest ebbs with voters, some disaffected members are starting to think a new political movement might be the answer.
One in four male Gen Xers now support One Nation
Males over 50 and under financial stress are the new political “anti-heroes”, says a new jumbo poll looking at the rising support of Pauline Hanson’s party.
Can these three women drag the Liberals back to their principles?
For Ley, Wilson and Sloane, bravery means confronting an electorate that has become accustomed to a culture of dependency fostered by Labor’s political sugar hits.
November 2025
Joyce defends Hanson’s burqa stunt as One Nation defection plan firms
Barnaby Joyce has ignored pleas to reconsider his potential One Nation defection and says he’ll make his decision at the end of this week.
The heavyweights backing Amelia Hamer
Melbourne institution types turned out to support the new Malvern candidate, though so too did a man the Liberal Party would rather forget.
Rising star Hamer trounces opponents in Victorian preselection
Liberal rising star Amelia Hamer defeated a rival backed by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg to win endorsement for the state seat of Malvern.
Why a fight over immigration is not the answer for Sussan Ley
The Coalition is failing to attract Gen Z and Millennial voters, but there are also worrying signs for the government in the latest polling data.
The IMF is flashing red lights on Australia’s spending spree
The longer Canberra and the states remain in fiscal paralysis, the narrower the nation’s options will be to chart a path to higher growth and living standards.
The shocking number at the heart of the Liberal Party’s problems
Phillip Coorey and Tony Barry on the decision to dump net zero, the Coalition’s existential crisis and whether Sussan Ley’s leadership can survive.
Liberals abandon net zero while Labor struggles to deliver it
The Coalition’s decision to ditch the target is largely symbolic and carries no real weight when it comes to Australia’s climate trajectory.
Katharine Murphy returns to Parliament House
The former Guardian political editor has swapped the PM’s office for Tim Ayres’.
I cried when Whitlam lost, but he’d lost the mainstream by then
The Whitlam era, including those two angry years maintaining the rage, has proved a great learning for Australian political leaders.
Labor banks $4m election windfall, fast tracks preselections
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s urgency to lock in the candidates so far out from the 2028 poll hints at an aggressive plan to grow his party’s margin.
Liberal election review slams polling and policies
The campaign was given false hope that it was a real prospect of picking up outer suburban and working-class electorates that traditionally backed Labor.
What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal
The cloud of US involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while presidential libraries block access to critical documents.
No place for complacency about populism in Australia
Delivering the return to prosperity that most voters want would be the best way for either major party to secure a broad-based constituency and keep populism at bay.
Modern Nats are being led over the cliff by donkeys
The Nationals’ decision to ditch net zero and risk another Coalition split isn’t principled. It isn’t even pragmatic. And it certainly isn’t good politics.