Knife’s edge: David Pocock ahead in ACT Senate Race
Former rugby union player David Pocock is on track to become the ACT’s first independent senator. We take a look at how this would change territory politics.
Analysis
Giant killers: How six teal women took down ScoMo
Six career women have emerged as the giant killers who swept Scott Morrison from power. The arrival of the teal independents represent a seismic shift in Australia’s political landscape.
Buckle up for a ‘complicated and nasty’ ride
Australia is now embarked on a classic big-spending Whitlam-style Labor agenda mixed up with a new-age big-spending Dark Green agenda. It is not going to end well.
LNP torn in two directions, Labor also in need of self-reflection
As bloodletting begins in the Coalition, Labor also faces tough questions despite being able to form government, writes Matthew Killoran.
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Are voters switching off the hard sell?
POLITICAL parties spend tens of millions on TV ads even though few of us see them. So is it a waste of money or is the social media ‘wake’ they cause worth the risk?
Morrison: ‘I’m a victim of bigotry too’
RESPONDING to an emotional speech taking aim at the plebiscite for same-sex marriage, Scott Morrison decided to play the victim.
Labor totally out of gear
THE worst thing about Labor’s attack on negative gearing is not what it might or might not do to property prices, but the way it would seriously hurt the battler property investors, writes Terry McCrann.
Rogue MPs have done their fair share …
COMMENT: Crime and politics are not mutually exclusive – old lags like Derryn Hinch can smoothly transition from the Big House to the Upper House if the voters take a bit of a shine to them.
Labor’s assault on the CFA attacks our soul
AUSTRALIA’S culture of volunteering is part of our social fabric but it’s under threat from a Labor Party that owes a political debt to unions, writes Tony Abbott.
We need to work together
THE Coalition is best placed to win the election, but whoever leads the nation must give us strong government we can all follow, writes Jeff Kennett.
Why Shorten needs a miracle
OPINION: There are many electoral myths and facts about Queensland — big swings, crazy candidates, baseball bats. But there’s one indisputable truth, and it’s going to make life very hard for the ALP.
Falling at early hurdle is not the end
THEY fall like horses in the Grand National; hopeful, hapless politicians who survive the gruelling process of preselection only to fall in the hurdle race of the campaign.
Tight-lipped Turnbull costing taxpayers
WE’VE been talking election for six weeks and we have just two weeks to go. So why is Malcolm Turnbull holding back? You won’t like the answer!
Shorten’s biggest challenge yet
OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten officially launched Labor’s campaign today and there was a reason why it was so important.
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