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Karen Middleton

The Guardian

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Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

The prime minister cancelled his MPs’ summer holidays and told them to work. But they want to know – what’s the agenda for the rest of the term?

28.11.2025 8

WA Today

Karen Middleton

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

The prime minister cancelled his MPs’ summer holidays and told them to work. But they want to know – what’s the agenda for the rest of the term?

28.11.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Karen Middleton

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

The prime minister cancelled his MPs’ summer holidays and told them to work. But they want to know – what’s the agenda for the rest of the term?

28.11.2025 7

The Age

Karen Middleton

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

Holidays for pollies? Nope, the nation can no longer be led from a caravan on the coast

The prime minister cancelled his MPs’ summer holidays and told them to work. But they want to know – what’s the agenda for the rest of the term?

28.11.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Karen Middleton

Doctor, Doctor, there’s a problem with my planet

06.12.2024 5

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Lifeline has offered a solemn reality check. Money worries are high – so what will the government do?

At a fundraising event for Lifeline Canberra on Monday night, general manager Adam Miller opened with a brief and distressing reality check on the...

06.12.2024 4

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Martin Rowson on Russia’s hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine – cartoon

22.11.2024 20

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Hasty decisions and backroom deals betray Labor’s dire need for a decent story

What story is this government is trying to tell, exactly? Rounding the bend to an election, its final parliamentary sitting fortnight for the year...

22.11.2024 5

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Praised by Dutton, the man who almost led Australia says he leaves politics with failures that became the best of him

When a political fighter leaves the arena, it’s often an enemy who confers the highest praise. As Bill Shorten farewelled the parliament just three...

21.11.2024 10

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Is Donald Trump TV’s greatest showman?

15.11.2024 3

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Trump shouldn’t decide Rudd’s future – but the US president-elect is no ordinary leader

Eight years ago, almost to the day, Japan’s then-prime minister Shinzo Abe flew to New York to become the first foreign leader to meet with US...

15.11.2024 3

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

How the abortion bandwagon has proved a useful vehicle for political advantage

When politicians start talking about abortion law, it’s often more about the politics than the law. When this occurs in the heat of an election...

25.10.2024 2

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

With many Australians facing a fractured future, Albanese faces a problem much bigger than his $4.3m house

Man buys house. Big deal. That’s the end-of-week take among some in the upper quarters of the Labor party on the prime minister’s decision to buy a...

18.10.2024 2

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

The Marles-Tarnawsky dispute shows parliamentary workplace is still far from perfect

There’s a lot of complicated details surrounding the allegations that the deputy prime minister’s chief of staff has levelled against her boss....

12.10.2024 10

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Peter Dutton needs reminding that rights we hold dear don’t come with a caveat

When he was elected Liberal leader after the 2022 election, Peter Dutton vowed he’d keep his party true to its values. Values were important to...

04.10.2024 3

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

What goes up must come down: lesson for Labor as negative gearing balloon goes adrift

Sometimes political leaders send up a test balloon on a policy idea to gauge public reaction. The news that Treasury officials have been working on...

27.09.2024 3

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Dutton’s truth-sounding nuclear power arguments are for generating impressions, not information

It was nothing if not audacious. In a speech that avoided answering one of the biggest questions hanging over his policy to build nuclear reactors...

23.09.2024 3

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Labor urged to boldly go where policy hasn’t gone before – just as long as it’s not too far

It stung a few in the Albanese government this week that Hawke-Keating era union leader and Labor hero Bill Kelty had declared them “mired in...

20.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

McPhillamys stoush is perfect seam for Dutton to mine for disaffected Labor votes

There’s a clue to the double-edged nature of resources politics buried in the share-price red and green of the Australian Stock Exchange. Since...

13.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Labor’s spectacular census own goal hands Dutton a double victory

There’s an empirical test for divisiveness. If something appeases one section of the community and enrages another, it would seem to fit the bill....

30.08.2024 2

The Guardian

Karen Middleton

Albanese playing with fire as he crab-walks away from makarrata promise

Australians understand fire. We know it as dangerous and destructive when it’s uncontrolled. We fear it, prepare for it and try to prevent it....

09.08.2024 4

The Guardian

Karen Middleton