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Essays & reportage Olympic origins Jock Given 20 March 2024 Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have National affairs Queensland and Victoria: which is really the odd state out? Tim Colebatch 6 April 2023 Recent election results tell a story Peter Dutton doesn’t want to hear National affairs The turn of the electoral cycle could be a long time coming Tim Colebatch 27 January 2023 Labor is riding high across Australia, and the Greens are doing better than most observers acknowledge. Where does that leave the Coalition? National affairs Shock turns to surprise Norman Abjorensen 26 July 2021 The fallout from Queensland’s Liberal–National merger continues with the resignation of former premier Campbell Newman

National affairs Queensland: a final note on preferences Tim Colebatch 14 December 2017 The detailed figures are out at last, and they confirm that One Nation’s preferences barely mattered National affairs Queensland resolved at last, with national implications Tim Colebatch 11 December 2017 With four state elections and a national poll on the horizon, it’s worth looking more closely at what happened north of the Tweed National affairs In Queensland, the count continues Tim Colebatch 1 December 2017 A Labor government is certain, but beyond that it’s Brisbane versus the rest National affairs What Queensland tells us about the future Peter Brent 27 November 2017 A shift in voting patterns interacted with compulsory preferences to produce a dramatic election count. Is this what we should expect in future federal elections?

National affairs Polls and preferences: the new challenge for election watchers Tim Colebatch 24 February 2015 Elections in Victoria and Queensland have caught the pollsters wrong-footed, writes Tim Colebatch. Are unexpected preference flows making Australian elections harder to predict? National affairs Should Queensland go back to the future? Brian Costar 23 February 2015 Campbell Newman’s premiership was an object lesson in the dangers of untrammelled power, writes Brian Costar. Queensland needs an upper house to keep governments… National affairs Queensland’s waiting game nears its end Graeme Orr 11 February 2015 The final composition of the Queensland parliament is likely to be delayed by court action over an ineligible candidate in Ferny Grove. But that doesn’t mean the LNP should… National affairs Queensland: why the pollsters (and most pundits) were wrong Peter Brent 5 February 2015 State-specific factors are part of the story, writes Peter Brent. But there's also a longer-term pattern