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

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...

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The New Daily

Kos Samaras

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

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...

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Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

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

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...

previous day 10

Pearls and Irritations

Kos Samaras

One Nation now speaks for a generation politics ignored

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...

monday 10

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 10

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 10

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 10

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Why the Coalition can’t win without losing itself

28.10.2025 10

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 10

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 10

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

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

02.07.2025 10

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 10

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 10

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 10

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

Why backlash against woke capitalism is good for Peter Dutton

The working class and working poor have become a volatile “new swinging” group of voters. Major political parties are beginning to target these...

04.02.2025 20

Financial Review

Kos Samaras