Editor’s view: Perfect forum for leaders to connect with voters
Election campaigning is at its raw best when all the minders are removed from the conversation and it’s just the candidates talking directly with the voters, writes the editor.
Analysis
Trailblazer of gender-bender sports
The Federal Election has become a referendum on whether to allow biologically male transgender athletes to play women’s sport. But what about biological males who play like girls, asks Joe Hildebrand.
Editor’s view: Coal communities deserve honesty
Queensland’s future with coal is not a binary choice between “stop coal now” and “digging it all up”. It is somewhere in the middle, writes the editor.
Woof woof! Barking mad campaign has the party faithful salivating
If politicians are a reflection of society, we must be a pretty shabby lot who will vote for whoever promises to give us the most money, writes Mike O’Connor.
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Shorten’s cheap attack backfires
OPINION: Badly served by his staff or peak political sneakiness? Either way, Bill Shorten has come off second best in an attempt to attack Malcolm Turnbull on the issue of election promises.
Opinion poll has Labor losing ground
LABOR faces the horror prospect of failing to pick up any extra seats in Queensland and may even go backwards as nervous voters return to the Government after the Brexit economic shock.
Costings the ‘must hold’ set piece
OPINION: There are many things in election campaigns which have become institutionalised and will remain forever mysterious. The whole “costings” argument is high on this list.
Not the time for unforced errors
OPINION: Logic and politics sometimes just can’t get together. That’s hardly a surprise to many political observers, but one party, just one week out from the election, has provided a staggering example.
Why Shorten’s almost certain to lose
OPINION: It was at public forum at Caboolture on the weekend that Labor’s Bill Shorten came face to face with the major reason he’s almost certain to lose the election this weekend.
Distrust shaping the way we vote
THE lack of trust Aussies have in politicians is paving the way for those who can pass themselves off as non-political. Beyond Pauline Hanson and her ilk, there are more wannabe pollies waiting in the wings.
Brexit victory good news for Turnbull
OPINION: It might have sparked David Cameron’s resignation, but Britain’s vote to leave the EU is good news for Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition ahead of the federal election.
Not a trickle but a hole in the bucket
EVIDENCE suggests the PM’s ‘trickle-down’ company tax cuts pledge won’t prove true. In Canada it has been “one of greatest public policy blunders of recent times”.
M1 fix more like highway robbery
FEDERAL governments should drop the facade about being committed to infrastructure projects if it’s going to constantly rewrite the rules, as the PM has with his M1 upgrade offer.
New rules see unholy alliances forged
A BIGGER collection of fundamentalist, social knuckle draggers, moral authoritarians, backward-looking, illiberal, obstructionist and self-centred political wannabes and opportunists is hard to imagine.
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