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Jack WaterfordThe Sydney Morning Herald |
In 1971, Time magazine decided that it might do a friendly cover story on newly installed Liberal prime minister, Billy McMahon, and asked for co-...
In 1971, Time magazine decided it might do a friendly cover story on newly installed Liberal prime minister Billy McMahon, and asked for...
Here’s a sad prediction for 2025. By the end of next year, more states and territories will have dropped the age of criminal responsibility to 10,...
Here's a sad prediction for 2025. By the end of next year, more states and territories will have dropped the age of criminal responsibility to 10...
It goes almost without saying that much of the ordinary economic commentary ahead of the election, whether in the Murdoch media, the Fairfax media...
During the recent presidential election, Donald Trump invited Americans to ask themselves whether they felt better off now, after four years of Joe...
During the recent presidential election, Donald Trump invited Americans to ask themselves whether they felt better off now, after four years of Joe...
Dutton’s nuclear plans provide an opportunity for a campaign Labor could win. But it won’t be won without girding for war. The need for some...
The release of some Opposition nuclear policy detail, such as it is, will define the federal election. It represents an opportunity for an...
The Labor Party would like it to be understood that they would prefer that voters give their second preference to the Liberal Party or the National...
The Labor Party would like it to be understood that it would prefer that voters give their second preference to the Liberal Party or the National...
Not since Alaska has the US won a nation so cheaply. A friend joked to me recently that the best news Labor has had this week was being told that I...
A friend joked to me recently that the best news Labor has had this week was being told that I was thinking that Anthony Albanese could very well...
A friend joked to me recently that the best news Labor has had this week was being told that I was thinking that Anthony Albanese could very well...
The ALP is full of legends – of which many old party folk are defiantly proud – of political skullduggery. There have been stuffed ballot boxes,...
The ALP is full of legends - of which many old party folk are defiantly proud - of political skullduggery. There have been stuffed ballot boxes,...
Labor needs the Greens. It seems to calculate that the Greens have no choice about preferencing them. That might once have seemed logical, but it...
This week the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, let slip his last opportunity to call an election this year. With the statutory requirements of a...
This week the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, let slip his last opportunity to call an election this year. With the statutory requirements of a...
This was a mood election; It was not a referendum about Kamala Harris. Nor was it a referendum of Donald Trump’s character. Immediately after an...
Immediately after an election, journalists such as me write analysis and commentary explaining the result and what it says about the mood of the...
And the National Anti-Corruption Commission loses its appeal. Major General Paul Brereton would be doing well to plan a skilful retreat from utter...
Major General Paul Brereton would be doing well to plan a skilful retreat from utter disaster rather than gallant holding actions pending the...
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has recently issued its first substantial, if highly redacted report clearing a former Department of Home...
The menu for Anthony Albanese over the next few weeks provides good examples of Labor's problems in controlling the agenda and sticking to the...
This ACT election is not an election about policies. Nor, by itself, about significant changes to the style of government. Andrew Barr,...
With less than two months to go, voters may go to the American polls while their nation is at war. If they do, there is a significant chance that...
With less than two months to go, voters may go to the American polls while their nation is at war. Login or signup to continue reading If they do,...
With less than two months to go, voters may go to the American polls while their nation is at war. Login or signup to continue reading If they do,...
One should never feel sympathy for a politician caught in a rule-in rule-out game. Perhaps the period should be after the eighth word, but there is...
One should never feel sympathy for a politician caught in a rule-in rule-out game. Perhaps the period should be after the eighth word, but there is...
Irony does not seem to be the strong point of the Public Service Commissioner, Gordon de Brouwer. During the very moments while explaining why...
Irony does not seem to be the strong point of the Public Service Commissioner, Gordon de Brouwer. During the very moments while explaining why...
Kamala Harris was, to my mind, a clear winner of the first debate between herself and Donald Trump. As things stand, however, I reckon that Trump...
Kamala Harris was, to my mind, a clear winner of the first debate between herself and Donald Trump. As things stand, however, I reckon that Trump...
This week I was practising my argument about a feeling that Albanese Labor has by now left it too late to retrieve its position before the next...
This week I was practising my argument about a feeling that Albanese Labor has by now left it too late to retrieve its position before the next...
We can all be grateful that the acting auditor general Rona Mellor has decided to take at least a sideways glance into Commonwealth speculation,...
One of Lyndon Johnson's sage pieces of political advice was that one should never get into a piss fight with a skunk. Kamala Harris should take...
History has too stately a progress to be the guide to tactics. But those who make history that does not fit logically into a pattern of principle,...
History has too stately a progress to be the guide to tactics. But those who make history that does not fit logically into a pattern of principle,...
I do not expect that there would be an outbreak of existential angst, despair, or deep public sullenness, even among committed Labor voters, if...
I do not expect that there would be an outbreak of existential angst, despair, or deep public sullenness, even among committed Labor voters, if...