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Phillip CooreyFinancial Review |
Thanks to an ill-timed stunt at the Press Club by activist group GetUp, the One Nation leader got exactly what she came for.
Voters flocking to One Nation, for now at least, don’t care about policy details or Pauline Hanson’s ability to run the country in this age of...
The Albanese government must resist the temptation to roll out more largesse to stave off the One Nation threat.
The budget’s breach of trust with voters appears to outweigh its stated attempt to repair social cohesion.
If Labor launches what would be its third term with yet another summit under the guise of consultation, then buyer beware.
The breakdown of the two-party political system is all well and good – until someone gets hurt.
Their starting point is there should be no CGT discount at all and nothing should be grandfathered. They won’t get that, but they are pushing for...
For Labor, this is the real deal, fulfilling a longstanding agenda. Meanwhile, the Coalition, especially the Liberal Party, believes it has been...
Every argument being made now and in the next few weeks could have been made before the last election – and carried.
The focus of the two major parties in the aftermath of Farrer was each other, as if Pauline Hanson was still an aberration.
No one is expecting a miracle. But the reply speech gives Taylor a golden opportunity to put what will be a defeat in Farrer behind him and start...
When former opposition leader Peter Dutton proposed a very similar plan a year ago, he was mocked. Our political masters really do treat us like...
Last year we thought the party was a has-been, then came Bondi. Now Pauline Hanson is Australia’s most favoured political leader.
Once upon a time governments owned and fought for their intentions. Not this one.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has become the gold standard for reform. For all the wrong reasons.
Given the debate over oil reserves, the government can thank its lucky stars it “lost” the bid to hold this year’s UN climate change summit in...
A similar thing happened almost 30 years ago during the referendum on whether Australia should become a republic, when Abbott belittled his own kind...
Labor’s vote is holding, but the Coalition’s is in free fall: Why you’d still rather be Anthony Albanese than Angus Taylor.
It’s not as though we haven’t been warned before – in 2012, politicians from both sides were calling for the nation to shore up its fuel supply.
Four years ago, the Treasurer made a political virtue out of outspending. Now he’s looking to make “substantial savings”.
In this case, he appears to have unleashed something he cannot control; a conflagration across the entire region, culminating in a global energy and...
Matt Canavan is the best weapon the Coalition has against One Nation. And he likes to think he has already rankled Pauline Hanson.
Australia has endorsed Mark Carney’s view that the rules-based order is dead and that its chief architect bears much of the blame.
More than 40 years later, Bill Kelty is still regarded as an authority on the economy. Today’s union movement should take heed.
Given the high level of disillusionment among One Nation voters, it is of little surprise that the firewall protecting the progressive vote might be...
Don’t be surprised if the prime minister dials it back a touch next week, regardless of how hard his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, may lean in.
Appearing before an inquiry into the CGT deduction for investors, Treasury assistant secretary Shane Johnson has rejected industry assertions about...
A focus on the economy should at least play the opposition back into form. Maybe even win a few waverers back from Pauline Hanson.
While he has extensive experience, Angus Taylor is saddled with being a poor communicator and, like fellow Rhodes scholar Malcolm Turnbull, poor at...
Angus Taylor may be a reluctant conscript for a leadership battle this early in the year, but if he wants the job he can’t wait for someone to hand...
The future of Sussan Ley’s leadership and the strength of the Coalition remain as tenuous as ever, despite the latest kiss and make up.
The 50 per cent discount looks indefensible, given Labor’s focus on intergenerational equity. A few carve-outs will help ease its removal.
Question time laid bare the madness of what the former Coalition parties have done to themselves in one short fortnight.
In November, one in four Gen X men supported One Nation. Two months later, it’s one in four of all voters.
The Liberals, with or without the Nationals, have scant chance of winning the next election, but they owe it to the nation to be a half-decent...
The hatred between the Liberals and the Nationals is at a level last seen in 1987 and Sussan Ley’s leadership is as good as terminal.
The third separation in the alliance’s history has a whiff of long-termness about it, such is the rancour between the two partner parties.
Anthony Albanese planned to use January to cement his government’s ascendancy. He has achieved quite the opposite.
This is a government that applies a crass political calculus to almost every action. Mostly it works. Not this time.
Everything the prime minister and Tony Burke said on Thursday could have, and should have, been said two weeks ago.
The reasons put forward by the government for rejecting such an inquiry are the same they used with COVID-19. It all reeks of political protection,...
The government did act to ward off “the long shadows of the past” for Jews, but not enough. And for that, it is exposed.
For all the parties, there are big signs in little shifts in the latest poll for The Australian Financial Review.
The government’s lack of empathy over the entitlements scandal has been notable, and speaks to a broader mindset that shows increasing disdain for...
A lot is starting to go wrong for the government, but it is being masked by the Coalition’s own struggles.
The EPBC deal was a missed opportunity for the opposition and a win for the minor party, which helps it return to core business.
Australia had the support of 27 of the 28 countries to host COP and Turkey just one. Yet Australia blinked. Why?
On climate and now immigration, the Liberal Party is chasing One Nation more than Labor. New poll numbers suggest that approach isn’t working as...
The opposition’s shambolic attempts to carve out a position on net zero have turned into a rolling catastrophe - in sharp contrast to Anthony...
Like a cork on the ocean, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley chose to give everyone a say. By late Wednesday, net zero was as good as dead.
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