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Phillip CooreyFinancial Review |
Labor’s vote is holding, but the Coalition’s is in free fall: Why you’d still rather be Anthony Albanese than Angus Taylor.
It’s not as though we haven’t been warned before – in 2012, politicians from both sides were calling for the nation to shore up its fuel supply.
Four years ago, the Treasurer made a political virtue out of outspending. Now he’s looking to make “substantial savings”.
In this case, he appears to have unleashed something he cannot control; a conflagration across the entire region, culminating in a global energy and...
Matt Canavan is the best weapon the Coalition has against One Nation. And he likes to think he has already rankled Pauline Hanson.
Australia has endorsed Mark Carney’s view that the rules-based order is dead and that its chief architect bears much of the blame.
More than 40 years later, Bill Kelty is still regarded as an authority on the economy. Today’s union movement should take heed.
Given the high level of disillusionment among One Nation voters, it is of little surprise that the firewall protecting the progressive vote might be...
Don’t be surprised if the prime minister dials it back a touch next week, regardless of how hard his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, may lean in.
Appearing before an inquiry into the CGT deduction for investors, Treasury assistant secretary Shane Johnson has rejected industry assertions about...
A focus on the economy should at least play the opposition back into form. Maybe even win a few waverers back from Pauline Hanson.
While he has extensive experience, Angus Taylor is saddled with being a poor communicator and, like fellow Rhodes scholar Malcolm Turnbull, poor at...
Angus Taylor may be a reluctant conscript for a leadership battle this early in the year, but if he wants the job he can’t wait for someone to hand...
The future of Sussan Ley’s leadership and the strength of the Coalition remain as tenuous as ever, despite the latest kiss and make up.
The 50 per cent discount looks indefensible, given Labor’s focus on intergenerational equity. A few carve-outs will help ease its removal.
Question time laid bare the madness of what the former Coalition parties have done to themselves in one short fortnight.
In November, one in four Gen X men supported One Nation. Two months later, it’s one in four of all voters.
The Liberals, with or without the Nationals, have scant chance of winning the next election, but they owe it to the nation to be a half-decent...
The hatred between the Liberals and the Nationals is at a level last seen in 1987 and Sussan Ley’s leadership is as good as terminal.
The third separation in the alliance’s history has a whiff of long-termness about it, such is the rancour between the two partner parties.
Anthony Albanese planned to use January to cement his government’s ascendancy. He has achieved quite the opposite.
This is a government that applies a crass political calculus to almost every action. Mostly it works. Not this time.
Everything the prime minister and Tony Burke said on Thursday could have, and should have, been said two weeks ago.
The reasons put forward by the government for rejecting such an inquiry are the same they used with COVID-19. It all reeks of political protection,...
The government did act to ward off “the long shadows of the past” for Jews, but not enough. And for that, it is exposed.
For all the parties, there are big signs in little shifts in the latest poll for The Australian Financial Review.
The government’s lack of empathy over the entitlements scandal has been notable, and speaks to a broader mindset that shows increasing disdain for...
A lot is starting to go wrong for the government, but it is being masked by the Coalition’s own struggles.
The EPBC deal was a missed opportunity for the opposition and a win for the minor party, which helps it return to core business.
Australia had the support of 27 of the 28 countries to host COP and Turkey just one. Yet Australia blinked. Why?
On climate and now immigration, the Liberal Party is chasing One Nation more than Labor. New poll numbers suggest that approach isn’t working as...
The opposition’s shambolic attempts to carve out a position on net zero have turned into a rolling catastrophe - in sharp contrast to Anthony...
Like a cork on the ocean, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley chose to give everyone a say. By late Wednesday, net zero was as good as dead.
Fifty years on from the dismissal of Gough Whitlam and his government, there’s still plenty to learn from the sacked prime minister. Just ask...
Fifty years on from the dismissal of Gough Whitlam and his government, there’s still plenty to learn from the sacked prime minister. Just ask...
The Liberals and the Nationals say hosting next year’s COP summit is not worth the cost
Sussan Ley is at risk of joining Alexander Downer and Brendan Nelson as one of the Liberal Party’s short-lived leaders. She’s tough, but it’s...
The Nationals dumping of net zero is an attempt at product differentiation to preserve the party’s own territory while warding off the rising threat...
While the immediate challenge is to quell divisions within, convincing voters may be helped by support for net zero “at any cost” waning in the...
The former deputy prime minister’s two decades of travails are all self-inflicted, yet he manages to come across as the victim every time.
The latest bout of self-absorption is not constructive. As the May 3 election showed, there are no shortcuts back to government, just hard work,...
Regaining its reputation for lower taxes and smaller deficits won’t be easy as it will require telling a population which has lost its fear of debt...
Political fears ultimately forced Jim Chalmers to water down the super tax. It’s a lesson that when your own side tells you a policy is bad you...
While free marketeers clutch their pearls, separating the politics of saving jobs from the economic arguments is almost impossible.
Andrew Hastie’s decision to quit the Coalition front bench reflects a strategy Liberal politicians have been using since Malcolm Turnbull was torn...
The prime minister had been making a virtue of not weighing in to the domestic politics of other countries. Then he stood up at UK Labour’s annual...
Anthony Albanese’s approach appears to have paid off. He left New York with his integrity intact, and a long-awaited White House meeting locked in.
If what’s left of the Liberal Party can’t unite around economic management and budget sustainability, it may as well fold its tent.
The government is anxious to impress that Australia is doing more on defence than spending 2 per cent of GDP, ahead of a possible meeting with the US...
The Liberal Party has a simple objective but a difficult task. Attract more younger voters while retaining the traditional base.
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