Key tax question the PM won’t answer
Rising food costs and inflation could be very bad news for the PM – who is refusing to answer another money-related question, writes Samantha Maiden.
Analysis
Simple question Liberals need to ask themselves
Senior Liberals are abusing independents trying to win their blue-ribbon seats – here’s what they should really be doing, writes Michael McGuire.
Must-win seats Labor needs to claim victory
The election could come down to a seat-by-seat fight with Labor facing a massive task if the polls tighten ahead of election day.
PM: ‘Australia is stronger than whatever divides us’
Scott Morrison has explained what we will continue to defend as a democracy and why Australia needs to be ready for what’s to come as the world changes.
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Taxing impact of $4b childcare scheme
Labor is proposing to use $550 million of taxpayers’ money to pay for its childcare package. But it will cost much more than that, writes Renee Viellaris.
Why growing pre-poll queues spoil the fun
Pre-poll voting is on the rise — a fact with major implications for the rollout of election inducements by the parties, says Mark Kenny.
Left-leaning campaigners target hard Right wreckers
Left-leaning group GetUp! infuriates the “hard Right” Liberals it ruthlessly seeks to depose and delights the Labor, Green and independent progressives whose shared causes it zealously promotes.
Campaign in 90sec: Cane toad weaponised again
The humble yet iconic Queensland cane toad is once again being dragged into a war it didn’t want — this time for political purposes.
Clive Palmer ‘buying’ political power
He’s spent $30 million on the election and is happy to throw tens of millions more at it. Now a new poll shows Clive Palmer’s tactics are working.
End this farce: Ban election posters and how-to-vote cards
It’s time to get rid of election posters and how-to-vote cards, writes Rex Jory. In the internet era, both are obsolete and absurd.
Billions needed to shore up power for future
The new federal government has a massive task ahead to deliver reliable, low-emissions electricity — and try to stop Australia’s trajectory of higher power prices.
Let’s not get hysterical over climate change
If people are going to advocate up turning our lifestyles and economy to tackle global warming, the least they could do is make sure they had a handle on the facts, writes Caleb Bond.
Climate change: An election battleground for years
Climate change was a major federal election issue well before the campaign started. In fact, when an Australian greenhouse gas reduction proposal was first considered by Federal Cabinet, Madonna’s Like A Prayer was the nation’s number one single.
ScoMo and the Spider-Verse
It’s fair to say Australian politics is a strange beast at the best of times – but we’ve found an excellent way of making sense of all the Canberra games.
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