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Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Getting the breaks going your way is an often-underappreciated factor in a politician’s success or failure.

yesterday 5

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Getting the breaks going your way is an often-underappreciated factor in a politician’s success or failure.

yesterday 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Getting the breaks going your way is an often-underappreciated factor in a politician’s success or failure.

yesterday 4

The Age

Shaun Carney

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Albanese is a politician who has relied on luck. Finally he seems to be making his own

Getting the breaks going your way is an often-underappreciated factor in a politician’s success or failure.

yesterday 4

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Her behaviour is bonkers, but the Liberal Party’s rank and file can’t get enough of Jacinta Price

Price’s political persona is built entirely on her grim-faced certainty about everything. Her rapid rise since entering the Senate in 2022 owes much...

10.09.2025 10

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Her behaviour is bonkers, but the Liberal Party’s rank and file can’t get enough of Jacinta Price

Price’s political persona is built entirely on her grim-faced certainty about everything. Her rapid rise since entering the Senate in 2022 owes much...

10.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Her behaviour is bonkers, but the Liberal Party’s rank and file can’t get enough of Jacinta Price

Price’s political persona is built entirely on her grim-faced certainty about everything. Her rapid rise since entering the Senate in 2022 owes much...

10.09.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

Her behaviour is bonkers, but the Liberal Party’s rank and file can’t get enough of Jacinta Price

Price’s political persona is built entirely on her grim-faced certainty about everything. Her rapid rise since entering the Senate in 2022 owes much...

10.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Sussan Ley’s efforts are in vain. The Coalition is grimly marching towards doom

The chilling thing in observing the Coalition in this second term of opposition is to see how resistant it is to the conclusions most voters reach...

28.08.2025 10

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Sussan Ley’s efforts are in vain. The Coalition is grimly marching towards doom

The chilling thing in observing the Coalition in this second term of opposition is to see how resistant it is to the conclusions most voters reach...

28.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Sussan Ley’s efforts are in vain. The Coalition is grimly marching towards doom

The chilling thing in observing the Coalition in this second term of opposition is to see how resistant it is to the conclusions most voters reach...

28.08.2025 40

The Age

Shaun Carney

Sussan Ley’s efforts are in vain. The Coalition is grimly marching towards doom

The chilling thing in observing the Coalition in this second term of opposition is to see how resistant it is to the conclusions most voters reach...

28.08.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Albanese is ignoring Trump’s demands – it will change our place in the world

The prime minister goes out of his way not to make a big deal of it and never wants to look like he’s undermining Donald Trump, but the signs of the...

13.08.2025 7

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Albanese is ignoring Trump’s demands – it will change our place in the world

The prime minister goes out of his way not to make a big deal of it and never wants to look like he’s undermining Donald Trump, but the signs of the...

13.08.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Albanese is ignoring Trump’s demands – it will change our place in the world

The prime minister goes out of his way not to make a big deal of it and never wants to look like he’s undermining Donald Trump, but the signs of the...

13.08.2025 8

The Age

Shaun Carney

Albanese is ignoring Trump’s demands – it will change our place in the world

The prime minister goes out of his way not to make a big deal of it and never wants to look like he’s undermining Donald Trump, but the signs of the...

13.08.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Albanese can make roundtable work for him, no matter where he sits on it

The government needs to seize the opportunity given to it by the 8,553,231 Australians who voted for it. Doing so once before paid dividends for the...

09.08.2025 6

The Age

Shaun Carney

Their founder now calls them unlikeable and authoritarian. Can the Greens change their spots?

The Greens have 10 senators and the balance of power. But leader Larissa Waters has a task ahead of her with a party split over transgender rights and...

30.07.2025 7

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Their founder now calls them unlikeable and authoritarian. Can the Greens change their spots?

The Greens have 10 senators and the balance of power. But leader Larissa Waters has a task ahead of her with a party split over transgender rights and...

30.07.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Their founder now calls them unlikeable and authoritarian. Can the Greens change their spots?

The Greens have 10 senators and the balance of power. But leader Larissa Waters has a task ahead of her with a party split over transgender rights and...

30.07.2025 8

The Age

Shaun Carney

Their founder now calls them unlikeable and authoritarian. Can the Greens change their spots?

The Greens have 10 senators and the balance of power. But leader Larissa Waters has a task ahead of her with a party split over transgender rights and...

30.07.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Albanese is being pressured to choose Trump or Xi. Why not both?

It’s shocking to consider that as awful as the Chinese government is, at least we know what we are dealing with. Can we really say the same about...

17.07.2025 20

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Albanese is being pressured to choose Trump or Xi. Why not both?

It’s shocking to consider that as awful as the Chinese government is, at least we know what we are dealing with. Can we really say the same about...

17.07.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Albanese is being pressured to choose Trump or Xi. Why not both?

It’s shocking to consider that as awful as the Chinese government is, at least we know what we are dealing with. Can we really say the same about...

17.07.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

Albanese is being pressured to choose Trump or Xi. Why not both?

It’s shocking to consider that as awful as the Chinese government is, at least we know what we are dealing with. Can we really say the same about...

17.07.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies...

03.07.2025 10

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies...

03.07.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies...

03.07.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies...

03.07.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Albanese is pulling away from the US – and Australians seem to love it

When the prime minister talks about “an Australian way” of doing things and highlights his deeper engagement with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea,...

19.06.2025 9

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Albanese is pulling away from the US – and Australians seem to love it

When the prime minister talks about “an Australian way” of doing things and highlights his deeper engagement with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea,...

19.06.2025 40

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Albanese is pulling away from the US – and Australians seem to love it

When the prime minister talks about “an Australian way” of doing things and highlights his deeper engagement with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea,...

19.06.2025 50

The Age

Shaun Carney

Albanese is pulling away from the US – and Australians seem to love it

When the prime minister talks about “an Australian way” of doing things and highlights his deeper engagement with Indonesia and Papua New Guinea,...

19.06.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

The Liberals are not just going through a phase – this is a full-blown identity crisis

The party is not in good health. Sussan Ley’s main challenge is to ensure the party understands just how much trouble it is in.

04.06.2025 10

WA Today

Shaun Carney

The Liberals are not just going through a phase – this is a full-blown identity crisis

The party is not in good health. Sussan Ley’s main challenge is to ensure the party understands just how much trouble it is in.

04.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

The Liberals are not just going through a phase – this is a full-blown identity crisis

The party is not in good health. Sussan Ley’s main challenge is to ensure the party understands just how much trouble it is in.

04.06.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

The Liberals are not just going through a phase – this is a full-blown identity crisis

The party is not in good health. Sussan Ley’s main challenge is to ensure the party understands just how much trouble it is in.

04.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

The Coalition believed it was Australia’s anointed leader - now it has no plan B

The Nationals may have pulled the trigger on ending the Coalition arrangement, but the Liberals had helped fashion the bullet.

22.05.2025 8

WA Today

Shaun Carney

The Coalition believed it was Australia’s anointed leader - now it has no plan B

The Nationals may have pulled the trigger on ending the Coalition arrangement, but the Liberals had helped fashion the bullet.

22.05.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

The Coalition believed it was Australia’s anointed leader - now it has no plan B

The Nationals may have pulled the trigger on ending the Coalition arrangement, but the Liberals had helped fashion the bullet.

22.05.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

The Coalition believed it was Australia’s anointed leader - now it has no plan B

The Nationals may have pulled the trigger on ending the Coalition arrangement, but the Liberals had helped fashion the bullet.

22.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Dutton captained a ship of fools – and they let him sink it

When he assumed the Liberal leadership in 2022, Peter Dutton told his MPs exactly what they wanted to hear: there was no need for a serious internal...

07.05.2025 20

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Dutton captained a ship of fools – and they let him sink it

When he assumed the Liberal leadership in 2022, Peter Dutton told his MPs exactly what they wanted to hear: there was no need for a serious internal...

07.05.2025 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Dutton captained a ship of fools – and they let him sink it

When he assumed the Liberal leadership in 2022, Peter Dutton told his MPs exactly what they wanted to hear: there was no need for a serious internal...

07.05.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

Dutton captained a ship of fools – and they let him sink it

When he assumed the Liberal leadership in 2022, Peter Dutton told his MPs exactly what they wanted to hear: there was no need for a serious internal...

07.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

Dutton’s angry-man mistakes leave Albanese looking the better devil

The Coalition’s reliance on anger and resentment at the government’s inadequacies looks to have backfired. With every day of the campaign, poll...

23.04.2025 10

WA Today

Shaun Carney

Dutton’s angry-man mistakes leave Albanese looking the better devil

The Coalition’s reliance on anger and resentment at the government’s inadequacies looks to have backfired. With every day of the campaign, poll...

23.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Shaun Carney

Dutton’s angry-man mistakes leave Albanese looking the better devil

The Coalition’s reliance on anger and resentment at the government’s inadequacies looks to have backfired. With every day of the campaign, poll...

23.04.2025 10

The Age

Shaun Carney

Dutton’s angry-man mistakes leave Albanese looking the better devil

The Coalition’s reliance on anger and resentment at the government’s inadequacies looks to have backfired. With every day of the campaign, poll...

23.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Shaun Carney

The Allan key: Has the state government unlocked fortress Victoria for the Libs?

Victoria has long been Labor’s progressive citadel, an electoral stronghold across state and federal politics. But the red wall may be crumbling.

19.04.2025 20

The Age

Shaun Carney