Welcome to the Twilight Zone of federal election campaigning, with a Queensland MP off to a flying start in a laughable attack over a push to get federal public servants back into the office, writes Mike O’Connor.
Labor is more the party of middle and upper middle class professionals who Zoom into meetings and circle back for a status update than it is the working classes, writes James Morrow.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s attempt to neutralise Labor by matching them on every policy dollar for dollar only serves to undermine Coalition credibility, writes Joe Hildebrand
Don’t be fooled by Albo’s latest cost-of-living con that promises to save you $150 on your power bills – Labor is literally just taking your money then handing it back to you and expecting you to be thankful.
THE 21st century has not been entirely kind to the first batch of Baby Boomers. But things are about to change.
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.
PETA CREDLIN: If Labor doesn’t change the conversation, they cannot win the election. They are mired in a debate about border protection and immigration that they simply cannot win.
THE Australian Federal Police may have raided a Labor shadow minister’s office and a Labor staffer’s home, but Laurie Oakes says it’s Malcolm Turnbull that they hurt.
MARTIN GRIMMER and DENNIS GRUBE: The selective use of words by political candidates can sway how we vote.
IT is unprecedented, and deeply discomforting, for police to raid a political office in the middle of an election campaign, writes Ellen Whinnett.
YOU might think elections are won on te campaign trail as pollies interact with voters. Wrong. It’s all happening on Twitter, writes Joe Hildebrand.
DENNIS ATKINS: The political import of the AFP raids on the homes and offices of senior ALP politicians is that it looks like a government is using the police to chase its enemies.
JOHN MARTINKUS: Australia’s Immigration Minister has shown he does not really like immigrants.
EDITORIAL: HEALTH is shaping as one of the key policy battlefields in this long and arduous Federal Election campaign.
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