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National affairs James Walter 2 May 2023 ScoMo, Teflon Dan and the democratic deficit
National affairs Peter Brent 22 June 2020 Have we been missing the prime cause of the leadership instability that set in ten years ago? National affairs Sam Roggeveen 25 November 2019 Loss of confidence in political parties could translate into disengagement from our region National affairs Graeme Orr 30 August 2019 A Victorian judge has gone against a quarter-century’s treatment of political parties National affairs Mike Steketee 15 May 2019 Election 2019 | If the banks can change, imagine the scope for cultural reform in politics
National affairs Rodney Tiffen 13 May 2019 Inside Story’s guide to seventy years of parties, polling and politics
National affairs Peter Brent 21 September 2018 Are the old days of majority government coming to an end? National affairs Rodney Tiffen 28 August 2018 A dive into political history suggests the Coalition will have difficulty recovering from last week’s events National affairs Joo-Cheong Tham 23 May 2018 Much-anticipated changes to Victoria’s political finance laws favour the big parties and fall short of full transparency National affairs Tim Colebatch 21 May 2018 On the figures, a sympathetic majority in the upper house seems unlikely after the next election
National affairs Peter Brent 25 April 2018 Newspoll’s revised figures suggest that Malcolm Turnbull did better last year than we thought. It’s another reason to give up our obsession with polls
National affairs Peter Brent 19 April 2018 What went wrong when Family First was absorbed by the Australian Conservatives — and what does it say about how people vote? National affairs Marija Taflaga 26 February 2018 Can the big political parties regain a sense of legitimacy, or have the conditions that sustained them come to an end? National affairs James Murphy 16 February 2018 A looming court case is further evidence of a deep divide within a once-powerful election-winning machine National affairs Rob Manwaring 26 January 2018 To call Nick Xenophon a populist is to miss the reasons for his remarkable rise
National affairs Norman Abjorensen 28 July 2017 Conservative Catholics left Labor in the mid 1950s – and we now know they were bound for the Liberal Party
National affairs Peter Brent 25 May 2017 Although poll predictions are unusually hazardous at the moment, the centre generally holds National affairs Norman Abjorensen 9 May 2017 Mark Latham isn’t the first Australian politician to journey across the political spectrum National affairs Tim Colebatch 11 July 2016 It’s not only Labor whose primary vote is at historic lows, writes Tim Colebatch. And there’s no mystery about why From the archive Jonathan Malloy 10 May 2016 A political scientist spends four months in the Australian capital
International Lesley Russell 20 April 2016 Discriminatory rules, long queues, gerrymandered boundaries: the decentralised US election machinery doesn’t serve voters well
Books & arts Norman Abjorensen 8 April 2016 Books | The Australian prime ministership was created out of almost nothing during the first five decades of the twentieth century, writes Norman Abjorensen National affairs Peter Brent 3 March 2016 The government’s voting legislation has been significantly improved, writes Peter Brent. But that doesn’t mean we know how it will work in practice National affairs Norman Abjorensen 1 March 2016 Elected prime minister twenty years ago this week, John Howard transformed Australia as few leaders have, writes Norman Abjorensen National affairs Marian Sawer 29 February 2016 A new controversy over a program that benefits the major Australian political parties reveals a paradoxical lack of transparency, writes Marian Sawer
Essays & reportage Anne Tiernan 3 February 2016 Why do parties have so much trouble learning from past successes and failures, asks Anne Tiernan
National affairs Norman Abjorensen 26 November 2015 History and his government’s record suggest it won’t happen, writes Norman Abjorensen National affairs Rodney Tiffen 15 September 2015 Leadership coups have become an increasingly common feature of Australian politics, writes Rodney Tiffen, but the electoral results aren’t always encouraging National affairs Stephen Mills 5 December 2014 Labor’s campaigning in Victoria had a lineage stretching back to community activist Saul Alinsky via Barack Obama, writes Stephen Mills National affairs Peter Brent 21 November 2014 The challenges of dealing with a fragmented Palmer United Party are a reminder that the major parties are struggling with low levels of primary support, writes Peter Brent