Books & arts
16 October 2024
A new biography assesses the record of Labor’s first prime minister
National affairs
17 April 2024
Past election results offer good news and bad for the federal government
Books & arts
4 April 2024
The National Party senator who campaigned against the far-right League of Rights exposes his strengths and weaknesses
Books & arts
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Books & arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Books & arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
Essays & reportage
2 December 2022
A young Western Australian catches a glimpse of Gough in 1969
National affairs
30 September 2022
Short-sighted political calculus has preserved a seriously undemocratic upper house in Victoria
National affairs
16 February 2021
What do past results tell us about the next federal election?
National affairs
22 July 2020
In breaching a key principle of the vice-regal relationship, John Kerr created the conditions for a crisis
National affairs
18 June 2020
This week’s branch-stacking revelations highlight the sharp decline in philosophical differences among Labor’s factions
Essays & reportage
25 May 2020
A young masters student talks to figures at the centre of the Liberal Party’s growing instability in the mid 1960s
National affairs
11 November 2019
Labor’s election review hasn’t quite nailed the party’s key problem
National affairs
30 May 2019
With most results in, the electoral landscape is looking challenging for the federal opposition
National affairs
14 May 2019
Election 2019 | If the polling consensus is right, each winnable seat will count for Labor
Books & arts
5 March 2019
Books | How Australia came to be good at elections
National affairs
30 January 2019
Labor’s economic policies might seem like a life raft to the Coalition
National affairs
14 December 2018
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has come out of the election with the upper hand against the Legislative Council’s crowded crossbench
National affairs
23 November 2018
The Victorian premier is pinning his hopes on majority government — and the polls are encouraging
National affairs
2 November 2018
The polls aren’t looking good for Matthew Guy’s Liberals in Victoria
National affairs
6 August 2018
Some loss of seats seems likely this November, and minority government might be the best Labor can hope for
National affairs
17 July 2018
This month’s by-elections come at a delicate time for Labor, federally and in Queensland
National affairs
20 February 2018
How did Australia’s upper house evolve into a part-elected, part-nominated body?
Books & arts
28 January 2018
Books | A former communist and a former Catholic activist combine forces to cast new light on the organisation that helped fuel the Labor split
National affairs
21 December 2017
The Coalition has weathered periods of disunity before, but this time there’s the added problem of ructions within the National Party
Books & arts
18 September 2017
Brian Burke’s doorstopper of a memoir is a valuable but partial account of a career propelled by an old grievance
National affairs
26 May 2017
Fifty years ago this weekend, Australians voted on two constitutional changes. One of them was defeated, and that’s still influencing election results today
National affairs
24 April 2017
Victoria could experience two shortlived governments in a row unless Labor can lift its performance in key areas
National affairs
13 March 2017
Mark McGowan’s win in Western Australia is good news for Bill Shorten – though not necessarily in the way you’d expect
Essays & reportage
23 November 2016
When the Coalition won the November 1966 federal election, the Labor Party had no alternative but to modernise