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      Growing bananas at the South Pole
    
    
      Stephen Wilks 
    
    
      2 October 2025    
    
      The great tariff clash shows how the Coalition manages to survive deep differences of opinion
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      The Senate’s status seekers
    
    
      Karen Middleton 
    
    
      30 May 2025    
    
      Having lost Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Liberals, the National Party has tried to entice at least one senator from the crossbenches
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Labor’s Trump card goes missing
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      27 May 2025    
    
      A key factor in Labor’s election win was forgotten once the postmortems began
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      How Peter Dutton misread the electorate
    
    
      Karen Middleton 
    
    
      2 May 2025    
    
      A misconceived election strategy’s long history
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Queensland to the rescue?
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      7 February 2025    
    
      History suggests Labor’s state election loss in the Sunshine State last October might — just might — work in Anthony Albanese’s favour
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      A long goodbye?
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      12 December 2024    
    
      The signs aren’t great for Labor, but the Coalition has its vulnerabilities too — and the election is still months away
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      The turn of the electoral cycle could be a long time coming
    
    
      Tim Colebatch 
    
    
      27 January 2023    
    
      Labor is riding high across Australia, and the Greens are doing better than most observers acknowledge. Where does that leave the Coalition?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Time out for a rural moderate
    
    
      Brett Evans 
    
    
      1 October 2021    
    
      What drives Darren Chester, the Nationals MP who has boycotted his own party room?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Malcolm’s war of independents
    
    
      Brett Evans 
    
    
      14 May 2021    
    
      The former prime minister is playing an intriguing role in a closely watched by-election
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The budget’s still-narrow gender lens
    
    
      Carol Johnson 
    
    
      12 May 2021    
    
      The government has made significant concessions, but a fundamental change in attitude is needed
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Have the times suited them?
    
    
      Carol Johnson 
    
    
      2 March 2021    
    
      How different a prime minister is Scott Morrison from John Howard, who won office a quarter-century ago?
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      The moderates’ revenge
    
    
      Robert Milliken 
    
    
      12 February 2021    
    
      Craig Kelly is just the latest hardline conservative to cause trouble within the Liberal Party, and he’s unlikely to be the last
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Labor’s unlikely climate saviour
    
    
      Tristan Edis 
    
    
      27 November 2020    
    
      Has the NSW Coalition provided a winning formula for Anthony Albanese and his colleagues?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Sound and fury, light and shade
    
    
      Jane Goodall 
    
    
      28 August 2018    
    
      Television | With just days to gather its material, Four Corners found a way to explore the human impact of power
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Post-coup blues
    
    
      Rodney Tiffen 
    
    
      28 August 2018    
    
      A dive into political history suggests the Coalition will have difficulty recovering from last week’s events
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Secret Coalition business
    
    
      Brett Evans 
    
    
      27 August 2018    
    
      Will we ever know what Scott Morrison promised Michael McCormack?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
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