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National affairs Right winner, wrong margin Murray Goot 5 May 2025 The pollsters tipped the win but not its size. So why did they toe the same line? National affairs Notes on a landslide Peter Brent 5 May 2025 The signs were there but the size of the swings still came as a shock National affairs Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? Frank Bongiorno 4 May 2025 The party is taking a long time to understand its plight National affairs Day of reckoning Peter Brent 3 May 2025 With the final polls published, what do we and don’t we know?

International Mark Carney’s slipstream campaign Jonathan Malloy 21 April 2025 Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border National affairs Sowing doubt in Dutton’s Dickson Karen Middleton 18 April 2025 Targeting the opposition leader’s seat serves more than one purpose for Labor National affairs The Coalition makes the case for negative gearing reform Peter Mares 15 April 2025 Peter Dutton’s housing announcement exposes the inconsistency in the opposition’s thinking Essays & reportage Which are the polls to watch? Murray Goot 14 April 2025 Does the national two-party vote tell us whether Labor will finish with the most MPs, or will it come down to 150 seat-by-seat swings?

National affairs Pre-election giveaways Karen Middleton 28 March 2025 The last week of parliament exposed where the tensions lie on both sides of politics National affairs State of exception Peter Brent 25 March 2025 Taswegians tend to go their own way at national elections, and that can matter when the results are close International “I’m most useful in a crisis. I’m not that good in peacetime.” Jonathan Malloy 11 March 2025 Can a former central banker use Donald Trump’s threats to pull off a shock win for Canada’s Liberals? National affairs A poll that answers Dutton’s dreams… Murray Goot 10 March 2025 … winning without defeating any teals or Greens