Deal or no deal?: Aussies deserve answer from Labor, Greens
The PM won’t be able to shrug off questions about a potential deal with the Greens. Aussies will be eager to know if a vote for Labor also means a vote for Greens. See the video.
The PM won’t be able to shrug off questions about a potential deal with the Greens. Aussies will be eager to know if a vote for Labor also means a vote for Greens. See the video.
Voters are frustrated, and this stems from fear about the future. Peter Dutton has been the beneficiary of this. But Anthony Albanese can do two things to change it, argues Joe Hildebrand.
The early salvo shows how much the US President is set to impact Australia’s campaign – potentially dragging it into a hyper-personal jostle between our two prospective leaders.
In normal times, what Peter Dutton is tasked with achieving would be impossible. But these are not normal times, argues James Morrow.
IT’S an indictment of where politics has headed that people are questioning Bill Shorten’s leadership of the Opposition. This is the guy who has just done what people thought couldn’t be done.
ANALYSIS: LABOR picked up a swing in almost every South Australian seat last night, while the entry of the Nick Xenophon Team has created a three-party state.
JUST hours before the polls closed, I received a phone call from a dear friend who was a lifelong Labor voter — to say she was on her way to vote Liberal — to support Malcolm Turnbull — for the first time in her life.
THE votes are in from the PerthNow exit poll, and as polling stations close across the state, it’s now your chance to Vote One – or not – for democracy sausage.
DENNIS ATKINS: With the spectre of a hung parliament hanging over a tight election, the gamble on a Medicare scare campaign might have been worth it.
JAMILA Rizvi says the polls were irrelevant. Just like the film Titanic, we knew the outcome of this before it started.
ANALYSIS: IT’S cold. Overcast. It feels as though we’ve been talking about how long this election campaign is for even longer than the actual campaign has lasted.
MALCOLM Turnbull and Bill Shorten have pleaded with Australians to be careful with their votes today and not risk a chaotic Senate full of obstructionist Independents.
BILL Shorten’s future as Opposition Leader depends almost entirely on how many seats his party picks up, writes Ellen Whinnett.
IN these uncertain times, Australia needs a government that is in control of its own legislative agenda, not the prisoner of an intractable Upper House.
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