You don’t get many laughs reading political polls for a living, but this cruel stat was so cruel to poor old Albo and his mates that would make even the most stone-hearted chuckle.
It’s more than 40 years since Victoria produced a Prime Minister and Bill Shorten’s scratching means we’ll likely have an even longer wait. Here’s our form guide to the starters’ chances.
Bill Shorten rocked the political jungle with his resignation — but could there be more to his decision than meets the eye? Does he know a scandal is about to break?
Former Labor leader and NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, who twice bid to become the nation’s prime minister, has announced his retirement from politics to take up a lucrative new university role.
What does it say about the government’s prospects that Bill Shorten — whose ambition to reach the top job burned as brightly as anyone in Australian political history — has decided to pull the pin now?
It’s taken a Pom to point out that we are richer – much richer – even than countries we think of as our peers. But it’s not something we really grasp let alone celebrate.
Whether it’s Gaza, renters or gay rights, these days when it comes to dealing with the Green threat in his own backyard, Anthony Albanese doesn’t know if he’s Arthur or Martha.
Jacinta Allan has hit back at federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton over his call to ban all Gazan refugees, saying the “hurtful” comments left her “deeply uncomfortable”.
The real reason Labor is trying to frame Peter Dutton as “the most divisive leader of a major political party in Australia’s modern history” is because new polling shows it has no choice.
The best way to think about the forthcoming “reforms” to the nation’s electoral laws is to compare the plight of the major parties to the free-to-air TV networks, James Campbell writes.
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