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Niki Savva

The Age

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One Nation may well win Sussan Ley’s seat – that would be terrible for all of us

Smart Liberals believe the coming Farrer byelection could be a two-horse race, with neither horse wearing Liberal or National colours. That would be...

05.03.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

One Nation may well win Sussan Ley’s seat – that would be terrible for all of us

Smart Liberals believe the coming Farrer byelection could be a two-horse race, with neither horse wearing Liberal or National colours. That would be...

05.03.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

One Nation may well win Sussan Ley’s seat – that would be terrible for all of us

Smart Liberals believe the coming Farrer byelection could be a two-horse race, with neither horse wearing Liberal or National colours. That would be...

05.03.2026 20

WA Today

Niki Savva

One Nation may well win Sussan Ley’s seat – that would be terrible for all of us

Smart Liberals believe the coming Farrer byelection could be a two-horse race, with neither horse wearing Liberal or National colours. That would be...

05.03.2026 20

The Age

Niki Savva

Fury in the Liberal Party meant there was no time for protection rackets

The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and or naive in the...

03.03.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Fury in the Liberal Party meant there was no time for protection rackets

The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and or naive in the...

03.03.2026 10

The Age

Niki Savva

Fury in the Liberal Party meant there was no time for protection rackets

The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and or naive in the...

03.03.2026 20

WA Today

Niki Savva

Fury in the Liberal Party meant there was no time for protection rackets

The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and or naive in the...

03.03.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Ley is toast and the Coalition isn’t just on a break. This bust-up is serious

A growing number of Liberal MPs privately concede the differences within and between the parties are intractable and irreconcilable, so entrenched...

04.02.2026 10

WA Today

Niki Savva

Ley is toast and the Coalition isn’t just on a break. This bust-up is serious

A growing number of Liberal MPs privately concede the differences within and between the parties are intractable and irreconcilable, so entrenched...

04.02.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Ley is toast and the Coalition isn’t just on a break. This bust-up is serious

A growing number of Liberal MPs privately concede the differences within and between the parties are intractable and irreconcilable, so entrenched...

04.02.2026 10

The Age

Niki Savva

Ley is toast and the Coalition isn’t just on a break. This bust-up is serious

A growing number of Liberal MPs privately concede the differences within and between the parties are intractable and irreconcilable, so entrenched...

04.02.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Keating on the malevolence and brutality of The Dismissal

14.11.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Niki Savva

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s...

06.10.2025 10

WA Today

Niki Savva

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s...

06.10.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s...

06.10.2025 20

The Age

Niki Savva

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s...

06.10.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door

Richard Marles was warned that if he proceeded to knife Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic, there would be grave repercussions. Initially, he appeared to take...

14.05.2025 10

WA Today

Niki Savva

Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door

Richard Marles was warned that if he proceeded to knife Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic, there would be grave repercussions. Initially, he appeared to take...

14.05.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door

Richard Marles was warned that if he proceeded to knife Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic, there would be grave repercussions. Initially, he appeared to take...

14.05.2025 10

The Age

Niki Savva

Marles is deluded. In a world where merit mattered, he would be shown the door

Richard Marles was warned that if he proceeded to knife Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic, there would be grave repercussions. Initially, he appeared to take...

14.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory

Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.

01.05.2025 20

WA Today

Niki Savva

Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory

Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.

01.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory

Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.

01.05.2025 20

The Age

Niki Savva

Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory

Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.

01.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

‘The knives are out’: Dutton has to win over voters, and win back his party

If Peter Dutton loses the election, this past weekend will be seen as a key moment of the campaign, when one of his allies drove a nail into the...

15.04.2025 10

WA Today

Niki Savva

‘The knives are out’: Dutton has to win over voters, and win back his party

If Peter Dutton loses the election, this past weekend will be seen as a key moment of the campaign, when one of his allies drove a nail into the...

15.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

‘The knives are out’: Dutton has to win over voters, and win back his party

If Peter Dutton loses the election, this past weekend will be seen as a key moment of the campaign, when one of his allies drove a nail into the...

15.04.2025 10

The Age

Niki Savva

‘The knives are out’: Dutton has to win over voters, and win back his party

If Peter Dutton loses the election, this past weekend will be seen as a key moment of the campaign, when one of his allies drove a nail into the...

15.04.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Wakey, wakey: Dutton looks shaky as his aptitude is put to the ultimate test

This is the opposition leader’s first federal election campaign, possibly the first time in his political life that he will face sustained national...

02.04.2025 20

WA Today

Niki Savva

Wakey, wakey: Dutton looks shaky as his aptitude is put to the ultimate test

This is the opposition leader’s first federal election campaign, possibly the first time in his political life that he will face sustained national...

02.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Wakey, wakey: Dutton looks shaky as his aptitude is put to the ultimate test

This is the opposition leader’s first federal election campaign, possibly the first time in his political life that he will face sustained national...

02.04.2025 10

The Age

Niki Savva

Wakey, wakey: Dutton looks shaky as his aptitude is put to the ultimate test

This is the opposition leader’s first federal election campaign, possibly the first time in his political life that he will face sustained national...

02.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Teals set to seize balance of power in sink-or-swim election

Against a backdrop of Trump-driven global chaos, a group of mostly female MPs will decide which major party forms a minority government at the coming...

05.03.2025 10

WA Today

Niki Savva

Teals set to seize balance of power in sink-or-swim election

Against a backdrop of Trump-driven global chaos, a group of mostly female MPs will decide which major party forms a minority government at the coming...

05.03.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Teals set to seize balance of power in sink-or-swim election

Against a backdrop of Trump-driven global chaos, a group of mostly female MPs will decide which major party forms a minority government at the coming...

05.03.2025 10

The Age

Niki Savva

Teals set to seize balance of power in sink-or-swim election

Against a backdrop of Trump-driven global chaos, a group of mostly female MPs will decide which major party forms a minority government at the coming...

05.03.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Trump’s re-election has enabled Dutton the chance to play his role of a lifetime

The Coalition’s failure to release a single fully costed, credible policy shows just how lucky Peter Dutton believes himself to be.

05.02.2025 20

WA Today

Niki Savva

Trump’s re-election has enabled Dutton the chance to play his role of a lifetime

The Coalition’s failure to release a single fully costed, credible policy shows just how lucky Peter Dutton believes himself to be.

05.02.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Trump’s re-election has enabled Dutton the chance to play his role of a lifetime

The Coalition’s failure to release a single fully costed, credible policy shows just how lucky Peter Dutton believes himself to be.

05.02.2025 10

The Age

Niki Savva

Trump’s re-election has enabled Dutton the chance to play his role of a lifetime

The Coalition’s failure to release a single fully costed, credible policy shows just how lucky Peter Dutton believes himself to be.

05.02.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva