Kennett tips ‘tsunami’ to hit Labor
Former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett is convinced that the level of anger at Victoria’s Labor government could cost a considerable number of seats at the federal election.
Former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett is convinced that the level of anger at Victoria’s Labor government could cost a considerable number of seats at the federal election.
Labor’s danger is that Middle Australia will conclude the government has lost control of the economy.
Employers have attacked Labor’s tough new laws criminalising the deliberate underpayment of workers as a ‘sop to unions’ that would be used to threaten businesses ahead of the federal election.
Adam Bandt urges Anthony Albanese to learn from the past and co-operate with the Greens if there’s no clear winner after the election.
As the curtain falls on a troubled year for the federal Labor government, and the country, minority government remains the best outcome it can hope for at the next election.
Victoria has emerged as a key battleground for the next federal election alongside NSW, as the Albanese government sheds critical support from Middle Australia amid the cost-of-living crisis.
Albo gives the Solomon Islands an NRL team, Wayne Swan appoints Tim Pallas as Cbus exec and Tony Burke publishes a biography titled: ‘Australia’s First Palestinian MP’.
Conservative Liberal leaders are highly effective at attacking Labor. This has been obvious for years. Yet progressive apologists typically don’t get it.
Peter Dutton has declared he would never address the nation with both the Australian and Indigenous flags behind him at press conferences should he become prime minister.
Labor donors were entertained by Anthony Albanese over drinks on the banks of Perth’s Swan River, and he then played tennis with members of WA’s most prestigious lawn court club as Jewish Australians prepared for a vigil near the burnt-out synagogue.
The view of Anthony Albanese as being gripped by indecision and weakness of leadership is becoming perilously entrenched.
Anthony Albanese is the weakest prime minister in decades, according to the latest Newspoll, despite a two-party contest that has the Coalition and Labor back to a neck-and-neck race.
Whether the trend continues to favour Dutton will depend on his ability to become more likeable, avoid parochialism towards Queensland and neutralise other advantages that Labor enjoys.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Australia tariffs would have a ‘mild’ impact on the economy, ahead of his Australian Institute of International Affairs speech predicting the consequences of Donald Trump’s re-election.
Peter Dutton’s net approval surpasses Anthony Albanese’s, as primary support for the Coalition lifts to 40 per cent for the first time since the 2022 election, the latest Newspoll shows.
If the current trajectory were to continue, by the time of the election the Coalition could well be in a position to be highly competitive.
Newspoll has successfully predicted the result of the Queensland election and managed to capture the late campaign swing towards Labor.
David Crisafulli had a strategy to win the Queensland election but not to gain a reform mandate.
The latest Newspoll has revealed a surprise for pundits who had tipped the Miles Labor government to be wiped out at Saturday’s Queensland state election.
David Crisafulli is poised to become Queensland’s next premier in a knife-edge win, squandering a decisive lead in a campaign derailed by his small target strategy and attacks on the LNP’s stance on abortion | LATEST NEWSPOLL
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