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Election 2019
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
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
What a difference three years makes
Peter Brent
18 April 2019
Labor’s attempt to win government faces much greater obstacles this time round
National affairs
Campaign calculus
Mike Steketee
17 April 2019
The Coalition’s return to the debt-and-deficits theme invites scepticism
National affairs
Big-end blues
Carol Johnson
16 April 2019
Despite moderating its rhetoric, Labor once again faces concerted campaigning from business groups
National affairs
One path to victory
Peter Brent
15 April 2019
On the evidence so far, the election will be closer than expected
Podcasts
Fit for purpose?
Jennifer Doggett, Lesley Russell & Peter Clarke
15 April 2019
Australia’s last big healthcare reform was in the 1970s. As the election campaign gets under way, two analysts discuss urgently needed changes with
Peter Clarke
National affairs
Over the top with Scott
Tim Colebatch
11 April 2019
If a fair go means anything, the Coalition is heading for a bracing judgement from voters
National affairs
More polls, but still no election
Peter Brent
8 April 2019
Do today’s figures tell us anything at all about how the parties are faring?
National affairs
Not the real budget?
Tim Colebatch
3 April 2019
The architecture is sound, the decor not so good, but the outlook for future budgets is worrying
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