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Taylor may have just sent scores of voters to Labor

Taylor may have just sent scores of voters to Labor

The trick at the heart of Angus Taylor’s budget reply is that it punishes a group that cannot vote. Strip the NDIS, Jobseeker, Youth Allowance and...

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The New Daily

Kos Samaras

Angus Taylor may have just created half a million new Labor voters

Angus Taylor may have just created half a million new Labor voters

The Coalition’s plan to strip welfare access from non-citizens could accelerate a surge in citizenship and voter enrolment across migrant-heavy...

21.05.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.

15.05.2026 10

WA Today

Kos Samaras

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.

15.05.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kos Samaras

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.

15.05.2026 20

The Age

Kos Samaras

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Angus Taylor just alienated families like mine – and doomed the Liberal Party

Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.

15.05.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Kos Samaras

The second-last budget reply – delivered by a Liberal MP

The second-last budget reply – delivered by a Liberal MP

The Coalition’s plan to strip permanent residents of access to welfare payments risks detonating support across Australia’s outer-suburban migrant...

15.05.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

This budget is pitched at the under-45s bloc keeping Labor in power

The government has understood what those voters require in exchange: seriousness, structural touch, an acknowledgement the Band-Aids are over.

12.05.2026 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Farrer exposed a political divide the Liberals cannot bridge

The Farrer by-election revealed a deep political realignment, with One Nation consolidating support in regional Australia while multicultural and...

12.05.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

A decade of dog-whistles and lost voters

The Coalition’s path back to government runs through roughly 25 seats. The overwhelming majority of them sit in greater Sydney and greater...

08.05.2026 30

The New Daily

Kos Samaras

A decade of dog-whistles and a decade of lost voters

05.05.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

Polls keep bouncing, destination doesn’t change

One Nation is up. One Nation is down. What the weekly polling movements are actually telling us and what they are not. In a single week, three...

28.04.2026 20

The New Daily

Kos Samaras

The polls keep bouncing. The destination doesn’t change

24.04.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

Voters no longer want managers - they want fighters

There is a word that gets used a lot in political commentary right now - realignment - and like most words deployed too frequently, even by me, it is...

18.04.2026 30

Canberra Times

Kos Samaras

Chasing ghosts, losing votes

New research shows immigration is not driving voter anger, yet the Coalition is targeting it anyway – risking further losses in the diverse, urban...

17.04.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

Voters want fighters — not managers

Across Western democracies, voters are abandoning consensus politics in favour of leaders willing to fight, name enemies and prosecute a cause – a...

16.04.2026 20

The New Daily

Kos Samaras

Voters no longer want managers – they want fighters

Across Western democracies, voters are abandoning consensus politics in favour of leaders willing to fight, name enemies and prosecute a cause – a...

14.04.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

Fuel crisis won’t save the Coalition, it might end it

Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...

02.04.2026 10

The New Daily

Kos Samaras

The fuel crisis won’t save the Coalition. It might finish them

Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...

31.03.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

The fuel crisis won’t save the Coalition. It might finish them

Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...

31.03.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

One Nation now speaks for a generation politics ignored

The rise of One Nation among Australia’s working- and middle-class battlers is a story of economic decline and political abandonment by Labor and...

30.03.2026 30

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Starmer’s foreign policy is about politics – and a warning for Australia

When establishment parties are genuinely destabilised by their flanks in Australia, the economic consequences will be felt well beyond the ballot box.

10.03.2026 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Howard battlers turning to One Nation is risky for business

Alienated Coalition voters are walking out the door. But the message they are sending to Canberra is one corporate Australia would be wise to heed.

15.02.2026 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

The big warning for Albanese in Mamdani’s win

Centre-left parties that built post-war success on broad coalitions are being hollowed out from the left; Labor must offer radical solutions that show...

07.11.2025 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Why the Coalition can’t win without losing itself

28.10.2025 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

Why the Coalition can’t win without losing itself

The Coalition faces not a messaging challenge but a structural impossibility. Voters abandoning them won’t be satisfied by marginally tougher...

26.10.2025 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

The 3 demographic shifts sealing the Coalition’s fate

Australia’s unique political forces – migration, education, compulsory voting – are reshaping the nation, but the Liberal Party has failed to adapt.

12.09.2025 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

From globalisation to AI: Why history is about to repeat itself

02.07.2025 20

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

AI flips the script on globalisation. We need a plan for the fallout

In the age of automation, leadership will not be defined by who adopts AI the fastest but by who protects their people the best.

30.06.2025 30

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

The Liberals are fundamentally mismatched with modern Australia

The party is ignoring the realities, identities, and aspirations of the people who will determine its electoral future.

07.05.2025 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Forget Boomers. Gen Z are smashing the old political playbook

The party that fails to understand the mindset of younger voters risks irrelevance in a political landscape that is far more complex.

22.04.2025 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras