Just societies should be measured on their ability to care for their most vulnerable members. On that, we have failed.
Mark Riley
Here’s an idea that might just encourage Gen Z - and others aged under 65 - to think about voting Liberal.
New data shows wages, inflation and jobs are improving, but Labor didn’t want to say voters were ‘better off’ until after the election.
The better approach for Sussan Ley would be to out-Albanese the Prime Minister — to adopt his more constructive, consensus-style approach and weaponise it against him.
Liberal campaign volunteers are reporting a perceptible change in the attitudes of voters answering their doors to them this week in Perth’s outer suburbs, but is it too late?
Donald Trump's announcement of a pause on tariffs has effectively killed off Anthony Albanese’s strongest defence to the economic tirade, writes Mark Riley.
MARK RILEY: Who can best manage Australia’s relationship with Donald Trump will be the key foreign policy question in the coming election campaign.
Journalists aren’t the only people curious about how the cyclone’s arrival might affect Albanese’s thinking on whether to visit the Governor-General on Sunday or Monday to call an election for April 12.
If the crossbench’s primary consideration is to honour the will of the people, then it would be easy to argue that their will was to remove Labor from power.
The economic data tells us Australians are actually better off than they were in 2022. Good luck getting voters to believe it
Labor Premier Steven Miles has run the better campaign. It probably won’t matter. The groundswell for change has been building for two years.When Queensland swings, it swings hard.
MARK RILEY: A fallen tree trunk halfway up a vertiginous mountain in the crippling humidity of the PNG jungle turns out to be the perfect place to engage in a bit of a deep and meaningful with two PMs.
The Parliament is acting like a giant funnel this week in a manner that has left many observers scratching their heads.
In just eight days, the voters of Dunkley will go to a by-election that will act as a litmus test for the Albanese Government.
Former Labor cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon was renowned for his straight talking. It frequently got him into trouble. Often with his own side.
A new measure has appeared in the preponderance of polling that takes the temperature of the Australian electorate.
Government strategists often talk of establishing ‘political frames’. It is an important part of what they do.
To paraphrase the late, great astrophysicist Carl Sagan ‘there is no such thing as a stupid question’. There are only bad answers.
Things are beginning to turn for the Albanese Government. The impression it has built of controlled authority is looking shaky.
The nature of the political contest changed on Wednesday. Irrevocably. The clash of leaders has become nasty, ugly, visceral.
Anthony Albanese’s visit to Beijing’s famous Temple of Heaven this week was a moment rich in metaphor and symbolism. But not everyone was thrilled.
Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations wasn’t just the best speech he delivered in office, it was one of the best by any prime minister since federation.
Somewhere along the line, someone realised that having two world leaders doing the Rock Lobster on the White House lawns while bombs rained down on Gaza might not be a good look.
Labor backbenchers tell me even their rusted-on supporters are getting uncomfortable with the amount of time the Prime Minister is spending abroad.
