Togetherness in Canberra
Australian leaders are looking for common ground, but Mediscare could prove to be a fly in the ointment.
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Of childlessness and leadership
Plus: Bill Shorten gets around to conceding, but he shouldn’t assume he’ll win next time.
Any way you look at it you lose
As the campaign coda draws to a close, victory looks a bit like defeat — and vice versa.
Of Wilkie and WMDs
Plus: It’s all hat but no Katter for the government’s purported election trigger.
The campaign is over, Bill
Stump speech gets a workout while the Electoral Commission keeps counting the votes.
Bedwetting epidemic strikes
The blame games continue, The Drum doesn’t, and when is a senator not a senator?
Tally who? The blame games begin
The finger-pointing begins in columns and on social media, while ex-NSW Premier Bob Carr unloads on Fairfax.
Halal snack pack, Pauline?
An amazingly long night in political history leavened by snags, ties and meat in a box.
The die is cast — well, almost
Papers go one way, pundits another, as the punters get ready to vote (and eat sausages).
Is Bill heading for his Waterloo?
Plus: We call it right on Nine’s Lebanon costs and The Drum suffers a Brexit breakdown.
Of youth and Labor surpluses
The Opposition Leader at a loss to remember the last time Labor delivered a budget in the black.
Lies, damned lies and full quotes
The Opposition Leader unloads on the PM — but it could come back to haunt him
Just another celeb …
Fairfax’s Tim Dick relegates everyone’s favourite expert to Taylor Swift status.
No pure breed in election fight
And it’s all about pitch when you try to hit the government up for a wad of culture money
The people are revolting!
People power alarms the commentariat when the people don’t vote in the “right” way.
AFR finally reads The Australian
Financial journal claims an ‘exclusive’ this newspaper had a fortnight ago.
Gay marriage gets personal
Scott Morrison takes up Penny Wong on a friendly game of competitive victimhood.
The real ‘fake tradie’
The ersatz workman who wasn’t suckers the Twitterati into conspiracy theories.
Another candidate bites the dust
Major parties are now down three candidates a piece with less than two weeks on the clock.
Labor’s launch has eyes on future
Three-word slogans abound, but Kevin ’07 is put on the 747 to a land far, far away
The real Sheik Shady stands up
Even with Waleed Aly sitting at table one, the PM’s guest list didn’t quite nail it.
Bang-bang, hard sell
Taking aim at your opponents is not just a figure of speech in Katter country.
Crikey gets it quite wrong
The great Cut & Paste unmasking that wasn’t. Plus: haunted houses, cocktails, and footy talk.
No win in massacre blame game
A teachable moment in Orlando, but many are offering up the wrong lessons.
Greens’ phony preferences war
More Queen’s Birthday bashing, Orlando shooting confusion, and a lingering obsession with the Dismissal.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt
Plus: Islamism meets PC, Greens voter meets Liberal senator, and a new definition of ‘agile’
Mysterious case of the slum
Forget Number 96. The plot line around Apartment 101 is even more convoluted.
Clothes maketh the candidate
The PM’s campaign gear proves less controversial as Shorten does another backflip.
It takes two to tango
Shorten goes solos, while Hillary Clinton delights Jane Caro, but won’t somebody think of the turtles?
Exciting time for online debate
Facebook may be forum for the next leaders’ exchange but Shorten won’t click ‘like’ on it.
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