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Dennis Shanahan

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Lights off in Parliament House as the gods curse ‘Blackout Bowen’

27.11.2025 10

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Dennis Shanahan

Power trip: Libs turn up heat on ‘part-time Chris’ as energy bills bite

26.11.2025 10

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This was Ley’s most important QT performance

25.11.2025 10

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Richo mastered the detail, kept score and ‘read faces’ like no other

08.11.2025 8

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Liberals are quietly withdrawing support from Sussan Ley, hoping she’ll quit

07.11.2025 6

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Emissions narrative that could give Libs a path forward

07.11.2025 10

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The Liberals are the worst political performers I’ve seen in 40 years

06.11.2025 10

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‘Grim Jim’ hit with yet another blow

05.11.2025 10

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Labor goes soft on Ley amid Coalition’s struggles

04.11.2025 10

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PM’s style: more python than cobra

02.11.2025 6

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Globe-trotting PM untarnished by opposition’s barbs

29.10.2025 10

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Albanese winging it on global diplomacy

28.10.2025 10

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Embrace your inner rebels, Nationals elders tell Ley

11.10.2025 10

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Coalition picks and chooses hot-button topics

09.10.2025 9

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Ill-prepared Ley left stranded and outwitted

09.10.2025 6

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Change of tone as house remembers

08.10.2025 10

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‘Ghostbuster’ Paterson is Libs’ top performer – and in wrong chamber

07.10.2025 10

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Libs beware: Hastie is the most dangerous politician in parliament

05.10.2025 10

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Lazy election analysis fails history test

19.05.2025 30

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Delulu of Bandt’s victory declaration and how Libs could seal Greens’ irrelevance

06.05.2025 20

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PM in best, most powerful position of all modern-day Labor leaders

05.05.2025 20

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Dutton is denied the ecstasy but at least he’s spared some of the agony

04.05.2025 10

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Spectre of malcontents has spooked both sides

03.05.2025 7

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No counting votes before the night for Albanese and Dutton

02.05.2025 5

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What counts as success this election? It’s all in the Seat-o-Meter

02.05.2025 8

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PM circles around all the important campaign questions

01.05.2025 9

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Brutal reality in major parties’ poll plunges

29.04.2025 3

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Serious people are not buying ALP’s Loch Ness nonsense

27.04.2025 10

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Pope’s passing denies Dutton an uninterrupted platform for revival

22.04.2025 9

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Three-term Albo? A bit of banter hoists PM on his own curtain rod

15.04.2025 7

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Why Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek are ghosting each other

14.04.2025 2

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Circus was next door, but plenty of elephants at Peter Dutton’s launch

13.04.2025 10

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Move over, millennials: debunking the election’s biggest myth

12.04.2025 20

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Moment of truth: One was a clear winner with the audience

09.04.2025 10

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Dutton needs to get in the game, as PM schools him on campaigning

02.04.2025 7

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PM trying to have it both ways on broken energy promise

31.03.2025 8

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Time for one last salvo of cheers, jeers, insults and cliches

28.03.2025 10

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Dutton unleashes inner Howard with excise cut

27.03.2025 6

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Chalmers draws a long bow evoking Chifley

24.03.2025 2

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Who will be our next PM? Next week will help Australia decide

22.03.2025 10

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The deadly political question voters are asking themselves about Albanese

15.02.2025 20

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Treasurer prepared to bend rules to win

12.02.2025 10

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AFP bungle puts PM in clear, but comms trip him up

06.02.2025 10

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Albanese’s bomb denial may blow up in Labor’s face

05.02.2025 20

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Free lunch troubles expose Liberals’ experience problem

04.02.2025 10

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This PM doesn’t want to talk anti-Semitism, or an early election

04.02.2025 8

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Albanese in danger of bombing out from public perception

03.02.2025 10

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Christians tackle crisis with force, heart, logic

20.01.2025 10

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All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’

18.01.2025 10

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‘Give nothing, expect everything’ approach marks PM’s disdain for Greens

25.11.2024 10

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