Editor’s view: Perfect forum for leaders to connect with voters
Election campaigning is at its raw best when all the minders are removed from the conversation and it’s just the candidates talking directly with the voters, writes the editor.
Analysis
Trailblazer of gender-bender sports
The Federal Election has become a referendum on whether to allow biologically male transgender athletes to play women’s sport. But what about biological males who play like girls, asks Joe Hildebrand.
Editor’s view: Coal communities deserve honesty
Queensland’s future with coal is not a binary choice between “stop coal now” and “digging it all up”. It is somewhere in the middle, writes the editor.
Woof woof! Barking mad campaign has the party faithful salivating
If politicians are a reflection of society, we must be a pretty shabby lot who will vote for whoever promises to give us the most money, writes Mike O’Connor.
More Stories
Issues spell trouble for Turnbull
MATT SMITH: Bill Shorten could be Australia’s next prime minister. These are words I would never have contemplated writing three or four months ago.
Pollies are learning our lingo
MARTIN GRIMMER and DENNIS GRUBE: The selective use of words by political candidates can sway how we vote.
NBN raids bad news for both parties
IT is unprecedented, and deeply discomforting, for police to raid a political office in the middle of an election campaign, writes Ellen Whinnett.
Dog whistle on migrants a new low
JOHN MARTINKUS: Australia’s Immigration Minister has shown he does not really like immigrants.
Health takes centre stage
EDITORIAL: HEALTH is shaping as one of the key policy battlefields in this long and arduous Federal Election campaign.
Voters only need a week to decide
WHEN Henry Tudor ran against Richard III, the campaign only took a few hours and a winner was announced before sundown after Richard was killed with an axe.
It’s the ‘come to daddy effect’
OPINION: A sombre feature of modern election campaigns is the presence of national security. Here it inevitably involves the Coalition standing tall next to its established “trustworthiness” on handling terror matters.
Polls point to battle
EDITORIAL: POLLS are instructive of voter intentions. They rarely tell the full story. But the numbers which came out over the weekend are illuminating.
Campaign spin thwarting democracy
GREG BARNS is sick of political parties calling the tune for cardboard-cutout candidates.
Show strength in numbers
CHARLES WOOLEY: We should all vote for a Tasmanian Senate Group, or at least for independents who genuinely want to advance the cause of our state.
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