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Kos SamarasFinancial Review |
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...
The Coalition’s plan to strip welfare access from non-citizens could accelerate a surge in citizenship and voter enrolment across migrant-heavy...
Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.
Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.
Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.
Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals’ status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.
The Coalition’s plan to strip permanent residents of access to welfare payments risks detonating support across Australia’s outer-suburban migrant...
The government has understood what those voters require in exchange: seriousness, structural touch, an acknowledgement the Band-Aids are over.
The Farrer by-election revealed a deep political realignment, with One Nation consolidating support in regional Australia while multicultural and...
The Coalition’s path back to government runs through roughly 25 seats. The overwhelming majority of them sit in greater Sydney and greater...
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...
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...
New research shows immigration is not driving voter anger, yet the Coalition is targeting it anyway – risking further losses in the diverse, urban...
Across Western democracies, voters are abandoning consensus politics in favour of leaders willing to fight, name enemies and prosecute a cause – a...
Across Western democracies, voters are abandoning consensus politics in favour of leaders willing to fight, name enemies and prosecute a cause – a...
Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...
Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...
Cost-of-living pressure will not automatically shift votes to the Coalition, as culturally aligned voters begin drifting toward alternatives that...
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...
When establishment parties are genuinely destabilised by their flanks in Australia, the economic consequences will be felt well beyond the ballot box.
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.
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...
The Coalition faces not a messaging challenge but a structural impossibility. Voters abandoning them won’t be satisfied by marginally tougher...
Australia’s unique political forces – migration, education, compulsory voting – are reshaping the nation, but the Liberal Party has failed to adapt.
In the age of automation, leadership will not be defined by who adopts AI the fastest but by who protects their people the best.
The party is ignoring the realities, identities, and aspirations of the people who will determine its electoral future.
The party that fails to understand the mindset of younger voters risks irrelevance in a political landscape that is far more complex.