The outlook is uninspiring, neither as bad as the Coalition insists nor as good as Labor pretends. But the risk is a nation heading into a trajectory of despond – without a robust course correction.
Conservative Liberal leaders are highly effective at attacking Labor. This has been obvious for years. Yet progressive apologists typically don’t get it.
The national accounts figures released this week are grim, but will it spur the Albanese government to reset policy – or is it locked into its flawed agenda?
Anthony Albanese’s character as a tactical and transactional leader has never been more evident. His biggest problem is incrementalism in an age of transformation.
The stakes for Australia cannot be denied – the more Donald Trump succeeds, the more Labor’s policies will look feeble, ineffective and missing the big picture.
The wild ride about to engulf US politics will have loads of blowback across Western democracies, including Australia.
The PM, somehow, needs to fashion a working relationship with the new president, while Peter Dutton’s problem will be his populist conservative base whose obsession will go into overdrive.
America’s progressive march has been halted in its tracks. The Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves. This is a defeat for their economic priorities, climate-change action and identity politics.
Anthony Albanese is throwing the switch to campaign mode. His focus is Labor’s agenda for the next term and his real purpose is to speed up the Labor-Coalition election contrast.
The Covid report is too polite to state the obvious: Victorians were the victims of a huge experiment in mass population control conducted by Daniel Andrews and his health bureaucrats.
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