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Joe Hildebrand is a columnist for news.com.au and The Daily Telegraph and the host of Summer Afternoons on Radio 2GB. He is also a commentator on the Seven Network, Sky News, 2GB, 3AW and 2CC Canberra.Prior to this, he was co-host of the Channel Ten morning show Studio 10, co-host of the Triple M drive show The One Percenters, and the presenter of two ABC documentary series: Dumb, Drunk & Racist and Sh*tsville Express.He is also the author of the memoir An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: People drop their vote into the voting box at Kew Primary School in the seat of Kooyong on May 03, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. Australians headed to the polls on Saturday for the 2025 federal election, where all 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of 76 Senate seats are up for grabs. This election is especially consequential due to a tightly contested race, with cost-of-living pressures, affordable housing, and energy policy dominating the campaign. Though most polls indicate a narrow Labor victory against the Liberal-National coalition, the result could also lead to a hung parliament, reflecting the growing influence of independents and minor parties, and potentially reshaping the balance of power in Australia in the years ahead. (Photo by Morgan Hancock/Getty Images)

Our moral centre spoke as Australia voted for kindness

Both hard left and hard right were handed a hospital pass – the election was a ‘referendum on kindness’, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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Hildebrand: Insider reveals Labor’s red-hot hate for Greens

For those still in doubt about the genuine contempt Labor has for the Greens, here’s what one insider sent to Joe Hildebrand. The ALP member declares “the Greens can’t create anything, but they sure can kill things”. Read it here.

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Why new Greens leader hits a Homer run

The Greens are about to find out why a Simpsons joke is so funny and the rest of us are going to be laughing for a very long time, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos MAY 08, 2025: Greens leader Adam Bandt holds a press conference to concede he has lost the Federal seat of Melbourne . Picture: NewsWire/ David Crosling

Hildebrand: It’s a global goodbye to our goofy Greenies

While Labor has retaken three of the four seats the Greens held, the party’s outgoing leader is pointing the finger at a non-existent Labor deal with the Liberals, making the Greens the updated version of Lenin’s “useful idiots”, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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Greatest result: End of the road for these smug sooks

The Teals and Greens are not Labor fronts nor friends – they are self-interested and self-satisfied pontificating narcissists sooking and moaning about problems they have no idea how to solve, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton concedes defeat during a Liberal Party election night event at W Hotel on May 03, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia. Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party secure a second term as Australians rejected Peter Dutton's pitch for a conservative shift amid persistent cost-of-living and housing concerns. Dutton's defeat marks a setback for the Liberal-National coalition, reflecting shifting voter preferences. (Photo by Dan Peled/Getty Images)

Hildebrand: Election lessons for a party in total despair

Denial from the Coalition and its supporters ultimately led to the crippling losses in the election. There are eight lessons the Liberals must learn if they want to survive, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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The private dinner that sparked Labor’s political fightback

A small gathering of the Labor Party faithful came together for a dinner. The tone that night was grim, but the party has come a long way since then, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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zNCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION LIBERAL BUS - 03/05/2025: Pictured is Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton while on the 2025 federal election campaign as it comes to a conclusion at the W Hotel in Brisbane. Peter Dutton arrives at the official LNP Election night function. Picture: Adam Head / NewsWire

Dutton and the Libs should’ve seen this bloodbath coming

The writing was on the wall even before the polls opened, but while the election result is a catastrophe for the Coalition, it is a resounding win for democracy, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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Too late: Dutton’s ‘winning argument’ was never tested

Any policy that hasn’t been inoculated with exposure to all possible threats will simply have zero immunity during an election campaign – and that is what happened to Peter Dutton and the Coalition, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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Peter Dutton has been a classic victim of his own echo chamber

Peter Dutton believed he was on a winning streak and nobody told him he was wrong until it was all too late. It was echo chamber politics, pure and simple, writes Joe Hildebrand.

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