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National affairs
National affairs
Liberals taking liberties
Norman Abjorensen
13 June 2019
The longstanding conflict between the Liberal Party’s conservative and liberal wings continues
National affairs
Department of dysfunction
Abul Rizvi
13 June 2019
On immigration policy, this is a big-target government
National affairs
If we won’t fix negative gearing, then what?
Peter Mares
7 June 2019
Part of Labor’s housing strategy could be adapted to lift affordability, and might just appeal to the government
National affairs
Notes on an election
Peter Brent
7 June 2019
Dust settled, our correspondent pokes through the rubble
National affairs
Shooting the messengers
Hamish McDonald
6 June 2019
This week’s AFP raids fit a pattern of crackdowns under the Coalition
National affairs
When good economics loses its way
Adam Triggs
4 June 2019
Modern monetary theory pushes a useful economic insight beyond plausibility
National affairs
The Keneally blunder
Peter Brent
4 June 2019
Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues?
National affairs
Pell’s judges
Jeremy Gans
3 June 2019
This week’s Court of Appeal hearing won’t necessarily be the last word
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Labor’s numbers game
Paul Rodan
30 May 2019
With most results in, the electoral landscape is looking challenging for the federal opposition
National affairs
Ripe for revival
David Clune
30 May 2019
Mark Latham’s plan for the NSW upper house sidesteps rather than confronts parliament’s problems
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Queensland, and other polling problems
Peter Brent
29 May 2019
What went wrong for Australia’s best-known pollsters?
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Victoria: where black is always in
Tim Colebatch
28 May 2019
A state budget that’s somehow in surplus still plays the wrong kind of politics with infrastructure
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Housing boom, housing bust. What comes next?
Tim Colebatch
24 May 2019
The government must make clear that it doesn’t want any more booms
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Next up, a budget ambush?
Rodney Tiffen
24 May 2019
The Coalition won the political battle, but will it fall into the same trap that blighted previous governments?
National affairs
Scott Morrison’s poisoned chalice
Adam Triggs
24 May 2019
As the economic challenges mount, has the government given itself enough room to act?
National affairs
It’s time — for the Palmer electoral law
Scott Hamilton & Stuart Kells
23 May 2019
This year’s election exposed deep flaws in campaign finance rules
National affairs
The better part of valour
Peter Brent
22 May 2019
For Labor leadership aspirants, this might be a good contest to sit out
National affairs
For both parties, the lessons of the election are clear
Michael Gill
22 May 2019
Strategies that pander to the party “base” have been thoroughly discredited
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Clearing the scrub
Frank Bongiorno
20 May 2019
Labor’s next leader faces the job of rebuilding the party in a low-growth world
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Wrong-target strategy
Peter Browne
20 May 2019
Comparisons between this weekend’s result and the 1993 election miss an essential point
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The great divide
Tim Colebatch
19 May 2019
Election 2019
| What exactly happened around Australia yesterday?
National affairs
A lesson twice learnt
Peter Brent
19 May 2019
Election 2019
| A fearful voter can be an unpredictable thing
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Can you feel it?
Peter Brent
18 May 2019
Election 2019
| Will the skittish commentariat be vindicated tonight?
National affairs
It could be a long night
Tim Colebatch
17 May 2019
What does the latest evidence say about the likely election outcome?
National affairs
Bracing times for true believers
Peter Brent
17 May 2019
What was the secret of Bob Hawke’s electoral success?
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A matter of preferences
John Quiggin
17 May 2019
Election 2019
| The two-party-preferred count is a relic of an era in which the major parties were overwhelmingly dominant
National affairs
Getting it right when the time is right
Joannah Luetjens, Paul ’t Hart and Michael Mintrom
16 May 2019
How do policy successes like plain-packaging laws or tighter gun controls come about?
National affairs
Victoria: where preferences whisper the name Hinch
Tim Colebatch
16 May 2019
Election 2019
| Glenn Druery is working his magic again, this time in his boss’s home state
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Beyond the political duopoly
Mike Steketee
15 May 2019
Election 2019
| If the banks can change, imagine the scope for cultural reform in politics
National affairs
Careful what they wish for
Peter Brent
15 May 2019
Election 2019
| Is a change-oriented campaign helping Labor over the line — and would the polls know either way?
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