Battle for Wentworth
ABC newsreader jumps on stage with Coldplay
Reading the news one minute, gigging with Coldplay the next. It’s all in a day’s work for the national broadcaster’s main newsreader.
- by Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Danny Russell
Latest
How 20,000 people changed politics: Behind the scenes of the teal wave
Few were seasoned activists. Others had crossed party lines. The unseen links among the volunteers who helped the ‘teal’ independents get to Canberra.
- by Brook Turner
Opinion
CBD
Financial independents: teals’ wealthy backers revealed
Electoral commission data shows how the wealthy turned against the Morrison government in the lead-up to May’s election.
- by Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Opinion
Influence campaigns
Secrets from the teals’ digital war room: we created a direct line to voters and now TV political ads are dead
The director of the communications agency responsible for the major teal independent campaigns reveals the revolutionary nature of the social media advertising strategy.
- by Ed Coper
Exclusive
Australia votes
The Spender agenda: Tax reform, more migrants and a brake on spending
The new independent MP for Wentworth says Liberals should not assume Scott Morrison was the root of their woes in teal seats.
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
Australia votes
This is a Liberal bloodbath, all losses to our left. Shifting right would bring us an eternity in opposition
The ousted MP in the once-Liberal heartland seat of Wentworth warns his party to reclaim the centre of politics or face electoral oblivion.
- by Dave Sharma
Exclusive
Australia votes
‘Arguably we won in January’: The Labor campaign man behind Sydney’s teal wave
Anthony Reed warned the Liberals there were “many other seats” where his playbook for success could be replicated.
- by Michael Koziol
Inside the teal wave: How the independent revolution happened
Organisation, money and a political position that the Liberal Party no longer occupies: This is the secret sauce that some think could change the face of Australian politics.
- by Royce Millar
‘We like our member, not his boss’: Liberals blame Morrison for inner-city carnage
Furious Liberals lashed out at Scott Morrison for costing them a slew of blue-ribbon seats in a “teal bloodbath” through Sydney’s eastern suburbs and northern beaches.
- by Michael Koziol
Analysis
Australia votes
Corflutes and complaints: Is this the pettiest election campaign ever?
Trivia thrives in a policy-free zone. And it seems like this election campaign has been the pettiest Australia has ever seen.
- by Michael Koziol
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Australia votes
Spender rejects Coalition’s super for housing policy
The independent candidate said the policy would inflate house prices when increased supply was needed.
- by Michael Koziol
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