Is there really a continuing drift away from the major parties in Australian parties? Like many I have in recent years bought into the narrative that we live in an age of political disruption –...
How much Australia has changed over the past decade can be seen from the difference between what Kevin Rudd as Labor opposition leader said to get elected in 2007 and what Bill Shorten is saying...
The idea that Scott Morrison’s election policies should be decided according to what he thinks is popular in electorates such as Wentworth in Sydney and Kooyong in Melbourne is like Donald Trump...
In calling the election yesterday, Scott Morrison insisted there was a clear choice between the Coalition and Labor. Sadly, at their core, there is not as much of a difference between the two...
The disastrous showing of the Liberal Party at the Victorian state election has spawned the same number of theories as the total of seats the Liberals are likely to lose. The left wing of the...
The Liberals should stop trying to play identity politics. They’re not very good at it and they should leave that sort of thing to the Labor Party. The race/class/gender/religion card is a...
Blaming your problems on the previous government is poor form. But blaming your problems on something that another government did over 25 years ago is, to put it politely, taking the mickey. Yet...
Politics in a stable democracy should be boring, even relaxed and comfortable. Yet since the fall of the Howard government in 2007 Australian politics has been exciting– almost a blood sport. The...
When a politician promises to give you something in 10 years, you can bet it’ll never happen. Promised tax cuts in Tuesday night’s Budget won’t match expectations, and a Coalition government —...
