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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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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos MAY 26 2025 Premier Jacinta Allan speaks at a press conference Picture: NewsWire / Brendan Beckett

Campbell: Allan’s machete ban is likely too little, too late

Sometimes in politics the only thing worse than doing nothing is being forced into action. The Premier’s hasty machete ban is no exception.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - May 20, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Campbell: Coalition in danger of becoming permanent losers

If the experience of the Liberal Party at the 2022 state election in Victoria showed, there’s nothing so damaging to a political party’s prospects than a belief among voters it doesn’t matter what they say, they just can’t win.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - March 25, 2025: Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley and Party leader of the National Party of Australia David Littleproud during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Campbell: Insiders reveal political drama behind shock Coalition split

Insiders have lifted the lid on the political drama that almost led to the Liberal and National parties splitting up after 40 years this week.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 20: Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes delivers her budget speech in Victorian Parliament on May 20, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. Victoria's 2025Ã¢â¬â26 state budget was delivered today, with Treasurer Jaclyn Symes pledging there will be no new taxes introduced this year. The budget is expected to project a $600 million operating surplus, focus on easing cost-of-living pressures for families, and continue a more moderate approach to infrastructure spending amid ongoing efforts to stabilise state debt. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Stumbling Symes is no polished Pallas, as she tries to be ‘cool’ with the kids

Halting as she delivered her budget speech and at times sounding like a teacher trying to get down with the kids by using words like “cool”, Victoria’s new Treasurer Jaclyn has a lot to learn.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - May 20, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Unmitigated disaster’: Ley’s enemies can’t believe their luck

Sussan Ley’s enemies can’t believe their luck. A week in she’s become the leader who couldn’t keep the Coalition together – reason enough they will say why she has to go, writes James Campbell.

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Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes’ first budget promises spending restraint. Picture: Asanka Ratnayake

Campbell: Jacyln Symes’ first budget is a set of fantasy numbers

The Treasurer is forecasting spending to drop across a range of departments, but given the history of the Andrews-Allan government many will laugh at the barefaced cheek they are now being asked to swallow.

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EMBARGOED FOR INQUIRER 17 MAY 2025. 15 May 2025; a phot comp of Sussan Ley, Angus Taylor, Peter Dutton, as well as Ted O'Brien and Jacinta Price. Artwork by Emilia Tortorella. Sources: supplied. Ratio 4:3 FOR PRINT.

Campbell: How Libs can turn things around

The Liberal Party is either extinct or in grave danger of extinction in all of the nation’s capital cities. There is one important thing it needs to do.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 15, 2025: Newly elected Greens leader Larissa Waters gives her first press conference in Melbourne.Picture: NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

Campbell: Greens play it safe with Larissa Walters election

Mahreen Faruqi would have been a win-win for Labor and Sarah Hanson-Young a threat, but the Greens have instead displayed a survival instinct by opting for Larissa Waters.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MAY 13, 2025: Parliament House in Canberra. The federal parliamentary Liberal Party will meet to elect a Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Sussan Ley arrives at the meeting. Picture: NewsWire / David Beach

Campbell: Ley’s slim victory shows Liberal unity a long way off

The wafer-thin margin of Sussan Ley’s win – 29 to 25 – shows the Liberal Party is a long, long way off finding common ground about what went wrong or how to fix it.

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Ministers (L-R) Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen and Ed Husic Industry and Science in Bidwill, Western Sydney today launching a local community battery. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Campbell: Real reason sooking Labor MP was dumped

The outburst from an axed minister who labelled the Deputy Prime Minister a factional assassin says everything you need to know about him.

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