Campbell: There’s a very real chance Dutton will be our next PM
Shortly before Christmas pollsters produced a piece of research which shows exactly why, despite the size of the job in front of him, Peter Dutton may soon be leading our country.
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Campbell: If Labor had its way every election would be about Medicare
It’s the thing even the most mediocre Labor leader can point to when trying to convince us he will be better than the Liberals, so it says a lot that Albo’s made it this election’s centrepiece.
Campbell: Pesutto may have survived if he’d swallowed his pride
Only four months after claiming the Liberal Party leadership prize, John Pesutto set off a series of events that ended with him being booted from the job — and there’s no escaping that he alone is responsible for it.
Campbell: John Pesutto is finished as Liberal leader
If a screenwriter had sat in a room for a week trying to think of the worst possible scenario for John Pesutto, they’d have struggled to come up with a fiasco bigger than this.
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Campbell: Shorten’s failure won’t scare Albo off negative gearing
If you thought Labor election losses in 2016 and 2019 would give Anthony Albanese pause from going after negative gearning think again — there are plenty in his government who view the issue as a vote winner.
Campbell: Latest round goes to Pesutto as court battle heats up
Day seven of Moira Deeming versus John Pesuttosaw the highly anticipated stoush between renowned Sydney legal bruiser Sue Chrysanthou and the Victorian Opposition Leader.
Campbell: Court battle a rolled gold political disaster for Pesutto
It’s a bit hard to tell how this defamation case is going for John Pesutto, legally speaking. But politically, it’s a rolled gold disaster, thanks to the conga line of Liberal MPs queuing up to give evidence against him.
Campbell: Labor’s politicians might be mediocre, but that’s exactly what Australians want
It’s all well and good for the veterans of the Hawke-Keating era to complain that the current Labor government is “mired in mediocrity”, but time and again we’ve shown that’s what the Australian public wants.
Campbell: The Deeming case just gets weirder
Renee Heath may be the only MP to have ever given testimony against her own leader in a case brought by another member of their party.
Campbell: Deeming case all about the vibe of the thing
That well-known Australian legal principle – the vibe of the thing – will be a crucial element to the defamation trial and already we’ve had one Denis Denuto test.
Campbell: Deeming trial on road to who knows where
If Moira Deeming is the anti-trans movement’s main weapon in Victorian politics, we might as well start putting our preferred pronouns on the bottom of our emails right now.
Campbell: Comm Games fiasco small change compared to Vic govt’s other screw-ups
When you look at the $1.1bn flushed down the toilet on the East West Link cancellation, or the $3bn blowout on the Metro Tunnel, $600m to not host the Commonwealth Games could almost be seen as a bargain.
Campbell: Dan can complain, but crash questions not going away
Daniel and Catherine Andrews are free to reject a top cop’s finding into their Blairgowrie car accident, but claiming it’s a conspiracy theory won’t wash with the public.
Campbell: Deeming meeting was a nasty pile on
A key meeting in Moira Deeming’s defamation case against John Pesutto was played to the court and it was ugly listening that reflected badly on everyone present.
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