Books & arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
National affairs
14 May 2021
The former prime minister is playing an intriguing role in a closely watched by-election
National affairs
30 April 2021
Josh Frydenberg has moved further from Coalition orthodoxy on budget deficits
National affairs
21 April 2021
Why are Victoria’s Liberals stuck on a controversial project twice rejected at the ballot box?
National affairs
14 April 2021
Is Scott Morrison the prime minister to win the next election?
National affairs
31 March 2021
Will a dysfunctional party organisation in his home state block Josh Frydenberg’s path to the Lodge?
Books & arts
19 March 2021
Books | Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?
National affairs
12 March 2021
Faced with the outsized power of a minority within the parliamentary party, small “l” Liberals are finally getting organised
From the archive
5 March 2021
Those eleven years of government certainly had an impact, but not the one the Liberal PM is usually credited with
From the archive
4 March 2021
David Kemp’s multi-volume history of Australian liberalism continues into the Menzies era
National affairs
2 March 2021
How different a prime minister is Scott Morrison from John Howard, who won office a quarter-century ago?
National affairs
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
National affairs
18 October 2020
Labor and the Greens have swept to victory in Canberra • New postscript 23 October
National affairs
18 September 2020
Joe Biden’s climate policy would have big repercussions in Australia
Books & arts
20 July 2020
Books | Christopher Pyne’s memoir reveals more than he might have intended about the state of Australian politics
National affairs
3 June 2020
Labor’s chances of winning the closely watched seat have improved — but don’t bet your house on it
Essays & reportage
25 May 2020
A young masters student talks to figures at the centre of the Liberal Party’s growing instability in the mid 1960s
National affairs
18 May 2020
A year after its re-election, the Coalition is riding high. But how long will that last?
National affairs
14 February 2020
Scott Morrison will always have 18 May 2019, but is that enough?
National affairs
30 January 2020
The National Party minister has become the scapegoat for systemically poor administration
National affairs
22 January 2020
The NSW environment minister wasn’t speaking only on his own behalf
National affairs
23 October 2019
The figures reveal a less than stellar performance in the state that most disappointed Labor
National affairs
4 October 2019
The prime minister’s style has proved effective so far, but does it contain the seeds of its own failure?
National affairs
19 September 2019
Tetchy relations between business and the Liberal Party are far from new
National affairs
4 September 2019
Hawke and Keating showed the way — but not how you (and Paul Keating) might think
Books & arts
26 July 2019
Books | Why does Niki Savva empathise with some of Australia’s least attractive politicians?
National affairs
13 June 2019
The longstanding conflict between the Liberal Party’s conservative and liberal wings continues
National affairs
22 May 2019
Strategies that pander to the party “base” have been thoroughly discredited
National affairs
12 April 2019
The one-time Liberal senator was back in the news this week after cash-for-access revelations involving home affairs minister Peter Dutton
National affairs
25 March 2019
Two different elections took place on Saturday, and the opposition won neither of them