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James CampbellNational weekend political editor

James Campbell is national weekend political editor for Saturday and Sunday News Corporation newspapers and websites across Australia, including the Saturday and Sunday Herald Sun, the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph and the Saturday Courier Mail and Sunday Mail. He has previously been investigations editor, state politics editor and opinion editor of the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun. Since starting on the Sunday Herald Sun in 2008 Campbell has twice been awarded the Grant Hattam Quill Award for investigative journalism by the Melbourne Press Club and in 2013 won the Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year.

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National
10/06/2019Opposition leader Anthony Albanese at The Pantry at Wangara.Pic Colin Murty The Australian

How Albo’s Setka move has backfired

When Anthony Albanese, breezily announced he was moving to expel union heavyweight John Setka, it seemed a formality — except it hasn’t been and things are getting ugly, writes James Campbell.

Federal Election
NEWS2019ELECTION 16/5/2019. DAY 36Opposition Leader Bill Shorten addressing a vote for change rally at Bowman Hall in Blacktown, Sydney.

Echoes of Gough as Bill charges on

Another national poll tells roughly the same story as all previous polls — that Labor is on track to form government, and there are eerie parallels to Gough Whitlam’s 1972 victory, writes James Campbell.

Analysis
NEWS2019ELECTION 15/5/2019. DAY 35 Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is joined by Premier of Western Australia, Mark McGowan, Shadow Treasurer, Chris Bowen, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, Member for Brand, Madeleine King and Labor candidate for Pearce, Kim Travers on a visit to North Metropolitan Clarkson TAFE Campus in Perth . Picture: Kym Smith

Get set for the blame game in Victoria

Whatever happens elsewhere in the country, the Liberal Party looks set to be crushed in Victoria on Saturday, and there will be plenty of finger pointing when it happens, writes James Campbell.

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