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Dennis Shanahan

The Australian

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Can Taylor’s new deal revive a fractured Liberal Party?

14.02.2026 10

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Dennis Shanahan

No matter who wins, the biggest challenge remains what the Liberal Party will offer voters

12.02.2026 3

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Dennis Shanahan

It’s finally on, but why do Taylor or Ley actually want to lead the Libs?

11.02.2026 7

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How the people were lost: truth behind One Nation poll vault

07.02.2026 4

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Ley and Littleproud must put pride to one side and listen to Howard

05.02.2026 6

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MPs try Art of War before sun sets on farce

05.02.2026 6

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Coalition had the rate rise, Labor had the last laugh

04.02.2026 8

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Best hour in weeks but it’s a long way back

03.02.2026 30

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It’s Christmas for Albanese: How One Nation became the ‘unofficial’ opposition

31.01.2026 10

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Every day without resolution is a clear win for leader Ley

30.01.2026 10

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Ex-PM offers a solution to Islam’s extremism problem

27.01.2026 10

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Poll pain for Albanese, partisan gain as Coalition implodes

23.01.2026 40

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Coalition chaos takes heat off PM’s failures

22.01.2026 20

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Hypocrisy and politicking rule in coward’s castle

21.01.2026 20

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Prime Minister’s promise is the coldest of comfort for shattered Jewish community

20.01.2026 10

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Last-chance saloon for ALP over shambolic response to terror

19.01.2026 10

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Questions raised over police rifts in Bondi aftermath

03.01.2026 10

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Albanese must seize moment to prepare us all for security threats

21.12.2025 10

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As Frydenberg seized moment, Albanese fluffed his chance at real leadership

17.12.2025 10

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

27.11.2025 10

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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 9

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

07.11.2025 9

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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 8

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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 10

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Ill-prepared Ley left stranded and outwitted

09.10.2025 10

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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 8

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

06.05.2025 10

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

05.05.2025 10

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

04.05.2025 8

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Spectre of malcontents has spooked both sides

03.05.2025 8

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No counting votes before the night for Albanese and Dutton

02.05.2025 7

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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 10

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Brutal reality in major parties’ poll plunges

29.04.2025 7

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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 10

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

15.04.2025 10

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Why Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek are ghosting each other

14.04.2025 3

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