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Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Anthony Albanese is suffering from severe “meloncholia”. His only silver cloud is that One Nation’s rise is doing even more damage to Angus...

03.09.2026 10

WA Today

Niki Savva

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Anthony Albanese is suffering from severe “meloncholia”. His only silver cloud is that One Nation’s rise is doing even more damage to Angus...

03.09.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Anthony Albanese is suffering from severe “meloncholia”. His only silver cloud is that One Nation’s rise is doing even more damage to Angus...

03.09.2026 20

The Age

Niki Savva

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Earth to Albo: your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes

Anthony Albanese is suffering from severe “meloncholia”. His only silver cloud is that One Nation’s rise is doing even more damage to Angus...

03.09.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Bending the knee: Why Andrew Hastie is set to abandon the Liberal Party

On the day Andrew Hastie vowed to die before kneeling to One Nation, Angus Taylor was squirming over whether he supported multiculturalism or...

02.07.2026 30

WA Today

Niki Savva

Bending the knee: Why Andrew Hastie is set to abandon the Liberal Party

On the day Andrew Hastie vowed to die before kneeling to One Nation, Angus Taylor was squirming over whether he supported multiculturalism or...

02.07.2026 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Bending the knee: Why Andrew Hastie is set to abandon the Liberal Party

On the day Andrew Hastie vowed to die before kneeling to One Nation, Angus Taylor was squirming over whether he supported multiculturalism or...

02.07.2026 30

The Age

Niki Savva

Bending the knee: Why Andrew Hastie is set to abandon the Liberal Party

On the day Andrew Hastie vowed to die before kneeling to One Nation, Angus Taylor was squirming over whether he supported multiculturalism or...

02.07.2026 30

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Abbott’s ineptitude meant he didn’t last two years as PM. Now he’s back, with four new slogans

There are so many angry, frustrated, pessimistic voters in Australia that One Nation, a party whose defining credo is racist and bigoted, will end up...

04.06.2026 70

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Abbott’s ineptitude meant he didn’t last two years as PM. Now he’s back, with four new slogans

There are so many angry, frustrated, pessimistic voters in Australia that One Nation, a party whose defining credo is racist and bigoted, will end up...

04.06.2026 40

The Age

Niki Savva

Abbott’s ineptitude meant he didn’t last two years as PM. Now he’s back, with four new slogans

There are so many angry, frustrated, pessimistic voters in Australia that One Nation, a party whose defining credo is racist and bigoted, will end up...

04.06.2026 30

WA Today

Niki Savva

Abbott’s ineptitude meant he didn’t last two years as PM. Now he’s back, with four new slogans

There are so many angry, frustrated, pessimistic voters in Australia that One Nation, a party whose defining credo is racist and bigoted, will end up...

04.06.2026 40

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Thanks to Trump, the national mood has seldom been bleaker. Over to you, Chalmers

It is rare outside of a federal election for the fortunes of all political leaders, their parties and the non-aligned to be broken, restored or...

07.05.2026 50

WA Today

Niki Savva

Thanks to Trump, the national mood has seldom been bleaker. Over to you, Chalmers

It is rare outside of a federal election for the fortunes of all political leaders, their parties and the non-aligned to be broken, restored or...

07.05.2026 50

The Sydney Morning Herald

Niki Savva

Thanks to Trump, the national mood has seldom been bleaker. Over to you, Chalmers

It is rare outside of a federal election for the fortunes of all political leaders, their parties and the non-aligned to be broken, restored or...

07.05.2026 40

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Thanks to Trump, the national mood has seldom been bleaker. Over to you, Chalmers

It is rare outside of a federal election for the fortunes of all political leaders, their parties and the non-aligned to be broken, restored or...

07.05.2026 40

The Age

Niki Savva

Pauline Hanson is out to obliterate the Coalition. These two MPS are standing up to her

Andrew Hastie is the most persistent, most outspoken and most lethal critic of Trump in Australian politics. He fully expects Gina Rinehart to spare...

02.04.2026 60

The Age

Niki Savva

Pauline Hanson is out to obliterate the Coalition. These two MPS are standing up to her

Andrew Hastie is the most persistent, most outspoken and most lethal critic of Trump in Australian politics. He fully expects Gina Rinehart to spare...

02.04.2026 150

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Pauline Hanson is out to obliterate the Coalition. These two MPS are standing up to her

Andrew Hastie is the most persistent, most outspoken and most lethal critic of Trump in Australian politics. He fully expects Gina Rinehart to spare...

02.04.2026 100

WA Today

Niki Savva

Pauline Hanson is out to obliterate the Coalition. These two MPS are standing up to her

Andrew Hastie is the most persistent, most outspoken and most lethal critic of Trump in Australian politics. He fully expects Gina Rinehart to spare...

02.04.2026 50

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 50

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 60

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 60

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 60

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 50

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 50

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 70

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 60

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 50

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 50

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 40

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 50

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva

Keating on the malevolence and brutality of The Dismissal

14.11.2025 60

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 40

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 50

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 60

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 50

Brisbane Times

Niki Savva