Knife’s edge: David Pocock ahead in ACT Senate Race
Former rugby union player David Pocock is on track to become the ACT’s first independent senator. We take a look at how this would change territory politics.
Analysis
Giant killers: How six teal women took down ScoMo
Six career women have emerged as the giant killers who swept Scott Morrison from power. The arrival of the teal independents represent a seismic shift in Australia’s political landscape.
Buckle up for a ‘complicated and nasty’ ride
Australia is now embarked on a classic big-spending Whitlam-style Labor agenda mixed up with a new-age big-spending Dark Green agenda. It is not going to end well.
LNP torn in two directions, Labor also in need of self-reflection
As bloodletting begins in the Coalition, Labor also faces tough questions despite being able to form government, writes Matthew Killoran.
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Lack of policy depth leaves both leaders exposed
Back from Covid-19 isolation, the fourth week of the campaign was Anthony Albanese’s for the taking. Here’s what went wrong.
Voters being asked to choose lesser of two evils
Less than two weeks until we go to the polls and there’s no clear frontrunner, writes James Campbell, with both sides simply pushing the view the other bloke is worse than theirs.
Credlin: Albo is not cut out for the top job as PM
Anthony Albanese is affable and seems genuine but he’s not up to the job as PM as his gaffe-prone campaign — and litany of misjudgments and mistakes — prove, Peta Credlin writes.
Entitled grandees trying to teal Liberal votes
Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t seem grateful the Liberal Party once gave him the prime ministership. What’s with these entitled grandees thinking their personal political preference is all that counts? Peta Credlin asks.
Gleeso: Will Mother’s Day again be a turning point in the campaign?
Three years on we have another Mother’s Day before an election. Will it prove as decisive as the last, wonders Peter Gleeson.
Labor’s all for climate-obsessed elites over workers
Labor traditionally railed against elites and the ruling class but it no longer fights for the underdogs who were once the soul of the party, writes Vikki Campion.
Ruthless Labor is back, and playing tough politics
As the Vickie Chapman saga reached new heights in the lower house, a Labor power play in the upper house will have far-reaching effects on SA voters, writes Paul Starick.
Voting is a privilege, don’t take it for granted
Your vote is one of the great rights you have as a citizen — so before you enter the ballot box on May 21, give some thought to who you’re choosing, writes Erin Molan.
Not a killer blow, but further evidence Albo not across his brief
Anthony Albanese’s latest gaffe adds to the perception he is not across the detail, not reading his briefings and doesn’t understand policy, writes Matthew Killoran.
Kingmaker Katter’s Labor favour to repay
Queensland maverick MP Bob Katter could find himself in the position of deciding who will form Government after the election, writes Graham Richardson.
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