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Election 2019
Books & arts
Always within striking distance of losing
Dominic Kelly
6 April 2020
Books
| The latest analysis of Labor’s defeat last May relies on all the wrong people
National affairs
How the polls mapped a road to victory
Rodney Tiffen
11 September 2019
Did misleading numbers influence how the federal campaign was fought?
National affairs
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
Queensland, and other polling problems
Peter Brent
29 May 2019
What went wrong for Australia’s best-known pollsters?
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
National affairs
Clearing the scrub
Frank Bongiorno
20 May 2019
Labor’s next leader faces the job of rebuilding the party in a low-growth world
Essays & reportage
Warringah’s win
Sara Dowse
20 May 2019
Saturday night’s result revealed the power of a grassroots movement
National affairs
Wrong-target strategy
Peter Browne
20 May 2019
Comparisons between this weekend’s result and the 1993 election miss an essential point
National affairs
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
National affairs
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
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
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
National affairs
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?
National affairs
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
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
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
Essays & reportage
Something’s afoot in Warringah
Sara Dowse
7 May 2019
Election 2019
| Our correspondent detects a pattern in the local reaction to Zali Steggall’s campaign
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
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