National Affairs
8 May 2018
Don’t spend too much time looking for a post-budget bounce. It won’t happen — or it’ll be over well before the election
National Affairs
3 May 2018
Could Labor lose the federal seat of Perth?
National Affairs
2 May 2018
Do parties really “give” their preferences to each other?
National Affairs
25 April 2018
Newspoll’s revised figures suggest that Malcolm Turnbull did better last year than we thought. It’s another reason to give up our obsession with polls
National Affairs
19 April 2018
What went wrong when Family First was absorbed by the Australian Conservatives — and what does it say about how people vote?
National Affairs
5 April 2018
The former treasurer rode a worldwide economic boom to fame; now there are calls for his return to parliament
National Affairs
28 March 2018
Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line?
National Affairs
16 March 2018
With third parties playing a big role, this weekend’s votes in Melbourne and South Australia are unusually hard to pick
National Affairs
19 February 2018
The mystery is why Emma Alberici’s article was published in the first place
National Affairs
17 February 2018
The week’s events raise the age-old mystery: exactly what is this strange beast?
National Affairs
8 February 2018
The battle for the inner-Melbourne seat is no ordinary by-election for Labor
National Affairs
2 February 2018
Conventional wisdom advises against holding referendums at election time. Conventional wisdom is wrong
National Affairs
19 January 2018
Is a Shorten prime ministership just a matter of time?
National Affairs
12 January 2018
With the right team, the next election could bury race-based campaigning once and for all
National Affairs
18 December 2017
A temporary reprieve for Malcolm Turnbull was also a reminder of Bill Shorten’s limitations
National Affairs
4 December 2017
Barnaby Joyce triumphs, but the thirtieth bad Newspoll in a row draws inexorably closer
National Affairs
27 November 2017
A shift in voting patterns interacted with compulsory preferences to produce a dramatic election count. Is this what we should expect in future federal elections?
National Affairs
15 November 2017
Both votes are a test for the government, but the second has suddenly become less predictable
National Affairs
1 November 2017
Labor can implement key Uluru Statement proposals, and it doesn’t need a referendum to do it
National Affairs
30 October 2017
How-to-vote cards will play a key role in determining next month’s election result in Queensland
International
19 October 2017
Beware of what excitable headline-writers and the betting markets say about Donald Trump’s chances of serving two terms
National Affairs
27 September 2017
Despite differences over how many voters have already returned their surveys, the latest polls tell a near-identical story
National Affairs
12 September 2017
The Yes campaign needs to be wary of over-enthusiastic supporters
National Affairs
1 September 2017
More young Australians are enrolled to vote than ever before. But will this have the impact Labor and the Greens are hoping for?
National Affairs
24 August 2017
Enrolment figures, poll results and pre-survey nerves have encouraged wrong-headed punditry about marriage equality
National Affairs
10 August 2017
Could one divisive figure decide the result?
National Affairs
7 August 2017
For a leader in trouble, Malcolm Turnbull is polling surprisingly well. Meanwhile, conservative forces are circling
National Affairs
21 July 2017
A quiet tête-à-tête won’t resolve the passions at work in the saga of the vanquished leader
National Affairs
5 July 2017
The differences between two deposed leaders are more illuminating than their similarities
National Affairs
28 June 2017
Efforts to remove “race” from the Constitution have become tangled up with Indigenous recognition. Let’s take them one at a time
