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Greg Hunt’s zeitgeist problem
James Murphy
14 May 2019
Election 2019
| Chill winds have been buffeting the health minister from all sides
National affairs
If franking credits and negative gearing didn’t exist, no one would invent them
Brendan Coates & Danielle Wood
14 May 2019
Election 2019
| Turn the argument around the other way, and the defenders of the status quo are on even shakier ground
National affairs
Helping first homebuyers, and other misdirected pledges
Tim Colebatch
14 May 2019
Election 2019
| Two parties, three promises, three problems
National affairs
A close election draws closer
Paul Rodan
14 May 2019
Election 2019
| If the polling consensus is right, each winnable seat will count for Labor
National affairs
Hitting the spot
Katie Attwell
14 May 2019
Vaccination campaigns need careful shaping to avoid alienating the can’ts and the won’ts
National affairs
Getting the numbers
Rodney Tiffen
13 May 2019
Inside Story
’s guide to seventy years of parties, polling and politics
National affairs
Labor’s bottom line
Tim Colebatch
11 May 2019
Election 2019
| There’s not much for the government to attack in Labor’s taxing and spending plans
National affairs
Do the times suit the Greens?
Shaun Crowe
9 May 2019
Election 2019
| Labor’s momentum has posed a challenge for the other party of the left
National affairs
Labor on the edge
Mike Steketee
8 May 2019
Election 2019
| With ten days to go, an unconventional campaign has turned into a nailbiter
National affairs
The art of the deal
David Clune
8 May 2019
Election 2019
| New South Wales has some lessons for the Senate
National affairs
Why has the Darling dried up?
David Lewis & John Langford
8 May 2019
“Watergate” is the tip of a much bigger scandal in the Murray–Darling’s northern basin
National affairs
Labor’s nightmare (and other preference puzzles)
Peter Brent
7 May 2019
Election 2019
| Voters’ rankings could count in ways that aren’t clear in the polls
National affairs
Public service, private interests
Paddy Gourley
7 May 2019
Cut short by the election, a parliamentary inquiry was beginning to probe the hidden costs of contracting out of government functions
National affairs
How much will it cost to deal with climate change?
John Quiggin
6 May 2019
The government’s latest figures show there’s at least one wrong answer — and the same mistakes have been made before
National affairs
Australia’s student visa blowout
Tim Colebatch
6 May 2019
Tonight the ABC opens up an issue both major parties — and the universities — are reluctant to talk about
National affairs
How to be a discriminating voter
Jeremy Gans
3 May 2019
Election 2019
| There’s plenty to keep curious voters — and the High Court — busy in the candidates’ disclosures about their ancestry
National affairs
On a roll with the AEC
Peter Brent
3 May 2019
Election 2019
| The Australian Electoral Commission’s success in boosting voter enrolments has created its own problem
National affairs
The war within
Peter Browne
3 May 2019
How the Liberal right found its enemy, why the High Court could be busy this year, and why you might worry about early voting
National affairs
Confidence cliffhanger
Mike Steketee
1 May 2019
Election 2019
| Faced with the temptations of negative campaigning, can the parties respond to a steep fall in voter trust?
National affairs
Voters are back in charge in the Senate
Tim Colebatch
30 April 2019
A smaller crossbench and a few surprise wins are the likely result of the new voting system’s first half-Senate outing
National affairs
How migrants’ parents became an election issue
Peter Mares
29 April 2019
Election 2019
| Labor is outbidding the Coalition in an attempt to win the votes of recent migrants
National affairs
Will this underdog have his day?
Peter Brent
29 April 2019
Election 2019
| Whether it’s on 48 or 49 per cent, the Coalition is looking competitive
National affairs
It’s not what you ask, it’s how you ask it
Peter Brent
27 April 2019
Election 2019
| An odd decision by Newspoll has shifted the dynamics of the campaign — but by how much?
National affairs
Second-class surnames
Jeremy Gans
26 April 2019
Election 2019
| Section 44 has already cast its baleful shadow over the federal poll
National affairs
The next global downturn could be a nasty one
Adam Triggs
26 April 2019
But governments can act in advance to minimise its size and duration
National affairs
Whose climate policy is that?
Mike Steketee
24 April 2019
Election 2019
| Labor’s plans are conservative in the full sense — just look where some of its key ideas came from
National affairs
Warringah rises up
Sara Dowse
24 April 2019
Election 2019
| Our correspondent reports from the sensible centre of Tony Abbott’s hotly contested seat
National affairs
Brickbats and bouquets
Frank Bongiorno
23 April 2019
Election 2019
| Twitter has changed the landscape of political reporting, and there’s no going back
National affairs
Fights of our lives
Peter Browne
23 April 2019
How trust cuts both ways, how a British psephologist observed Australia, and how the tabloids are losing their power
National affairs
The revenge of Billy Hughes
James Panichi
23 April 2019
A century after the one-time attorney-general’s legislation was shot down by the Privy Council, Australia’s new criminal cartel law is up and running
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