Australian politics
Australian party politics and leadership when they are the subject: the major parties, their leaders and leadership contests, and election campaigns.
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‘A pattern of corrosive misconduct’: Andrews government under scrutinyTicker · 5 August 2026Jacinta Allan’s resignation could reshape Victoria, Labor and the LeftTicker · 29 July 2026Zali Steggall’s new party: What it means for Australian politicsTicker · 21 June 2026Pauline Hanson overtakes Albanese as preferred PMTicker · 14 June 2026Sussan Ley faces leadership pressure amid coalition turmoilTicker · 9 February 2026Liberal Party turmoil sparks coalition decline and One Nation surgeTicker · 2 February 2026Conspiracy Theories Dismissed (Again)The Looking Forward Podcast · 15 July 2020Is Tony Abbott Our Biggest National Security Threat?The Looking Forward Podcast · 13 November 2019
The Centre-Right Is Alive And WellThe Looking Forward Podcast · 14 August 2019Special Episode: Troy BramstonThe Looking Forward Podcast · 15 July 2019A Time for Mainstream AustraliansThe Looking Forward Podcast · 22 May 2019What would a liberal vision for Australia look like?The Looking Forward Podcast · 17 April 2019Trump and French on Campus Free SpeechThe Looking Forward Podcast · 3 April 2019What Will Conservatism Look Like After Trump?The Looking Forward Podcast · 27 March 2019Was Federation A Mistake?The Looking Forward Podcast · 13 March 2019Will We Regret Trump’s National Emergency?The Looking Forward Podcast · 20 February 2019Commentary 117
A Run on the BanksIPA Review · 12 Dec 2025Jim Chalmers’ spray at the RBA is embarrassingCrikey · 5 Sep 2024Sober liberalSpectator Australia · 13 Apr 2018Are Australians ready to embrace libertarianism?The Conversation · 12 Apr 2018The end of liberalism?IPA Review · 1 Jul 2017Is reform hopeless in an era of disillusion?IPA Review · 1 Aug 2016Where did it go wrong for Turnbull? The budgetABC The Drum · 5 Jul 2016Perverse small-target strategies leave voters guessingABC The Drum · 28 Jun 2016Why we’re seeing less pork barrelling this electionABC The Drum · 31 May 2016The ghosts of deficits past, present and future haunt this electionABC The Drum · 10 May 2016From Markets To Speech, Libertarians Straddle Political DivideThe Australian · 2 May 2016Turnbull’s Policies Aren’t Liberal, They’re IncoherentABC The Drum · 26 Apr 2016Turnbull’s Only Real Option Was Bluff And BravadoABC The Drum · 22 Mar 2016The Dries Have It: The Past And Future Of Economic ReformABC The Drum · 28 Dec 2015Malcolm Turnbull Should Avoid The Seductive Trap Of An Early ElectionABC The Drum · 3 Nov 2015Turnbull Can Learn From Gillard’s TransitionABC The Drum · 29 Sep 2015Without Economic Nous, Abbott Was DoomedABC The Drum · 15 Sep 2015The Abbott Government’s Real Problem Is That It’s Not Ideological EnoughABC The Drum · 8 Sep 2015There’s Nothing Conservative About Using The Constitution As A Political TrickABC The Drum · 15 Aug 2015Let’s Be Honest, Question Time Makes Everyone Look StupidABC The Drum · 11 Aug 2015
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The Weight Of History Bears Down On ShortenABC The Drum · 23 Jun 2015Things Get Messy When Popularity Trumps PolicyABC The Drum · 2 Jun 2015Labor Can Stop Beating The Inequality DrumABC The Drum · 29 Apr 2015Shorten Must Start Thinking About Life After OppositionABC The Drum · 14 Apr 2015Abbott’s Strategy Just A Blast From The PastABC The Drum · 10 Feb 2015Conservatives Turn Their Critical Eye On AbbottABC The Drum · 3 Feb 2015When Is Tax ‘Reform’ Actually Just A Tax Grab?ABC The Drum · 20 Jan 2015Testing times make for great (and awful) leadersABC The Drum · 30 Dec 2014Fixed Terms Made A Farce Of Victorian PoliticsABC The Drum · 2 Dec 2014Election Campaign A Time For Politicians To Promise What They Can’t DeliverThe Age · 25 Nov 2014Victoria’s Transport Policies Ruled By The Heart, Not The HeadThe Age · 17 Nov 2014Labor Party Reluctant To Ditch Union Ties In VictoriaThe Sunday Age · 9 Nov 2014Gimmick Items Dominate Victorian CampaignsThe Sunday Age · 2 Nov 2014Romanticising Reform: We’ve Set The Bar Too HighABC The Drum · 10 Sep 2014The repeal of the carbon taxIPA Review · 10 Aug 2014Abbott Needs To Hit The Reset ButtonABC The Drum · 5 Aug 2014Hockey: The Moderate Man Forced To Be DryABC The Drum · 29 Jul 2014The Lessons Abbott Should Learn From VictoriaABC The Drum · 15 Jul 2014Star Wars Cantina: Patronising Politics Strikes BackABC The Drum · 8 Jul 2014Tides To Turn For Shorten On Debt, Boats And TaxABC The Drum · 26 Jun 2014Expelling MP Geoff Shaw Should Not Be The Only Way Out For The Napthine GovernmentThe Age · 9 Jun 2014Budget Won’t Slow Government SpendingThe Age · 16 May 2014Tony Abbott’s culture challengeIPA Review · 1 May 2014Election Promises Are There For The BreakingABC The Drum · 22 Apr 2014Micro-Parties Tap Into DissatisfactionABC The Drum · 8 Apr 2014Qantas Ball Now In Labor’s CourtABC The Drum · 4 Mar 2014Divining The Meaning Of Elections Is A Mug’s GameABC The Drum · 12 Feb 2014There Is No Such Thing As Reform Without RisksABC The Drum · 7 Jan 2014The Coalition’s Budget Decisions Are All Its OwnABC The Drum · 17 Dec 2013A Reputation For Competence Must Be EarnedABC The Drum · 26 Nov 2013Never Trust The ‘Diary’ Of A Political SpinnerABC The Drum · 5 Nov 2013Broadband Is Just The Start Of Turnbull’s MinefieldABC The Drum · 22 Oct 2013It’s About Muckraking, Not KingmakingABC The Drum · 15 Oct 2013Teaching The Public Service To Obey Its New MastersABC The Drum · 10 Sep 2013Foreign Investment Is Always A Two-Faced PolicyABC The Drum · 7 Sep 2013‘On Track’ For A Surplus? Not Good EnoughABC The Drum · 3 Sep 2013Behold The Dance Of The Travelling SalesmenABC The Drum · 20 Aug 2013Not The Time To Convince Us Of Economic ProwessABC The Drum · 6 Aug 2013Politicians Are Powerless Over Australia’s EconomyABC The Drum · 30 Jul 2013Dumping The Carbon Tax Without Dumping AnythingABC The Drum · 11 Jul 2013Abbott Should Welcome A Debate On The EconomyABC The Drum · 9 Jul 2013The GFC Debate We Never HadABC The Drum · 2 Jul 2013In Defence Of PollingABC The Drum · 18 Jun 2013Labor’s End: Out With The Old, In With The RenewedABC The Drum · 11 Jun 2013If By A Miracle Labor Wins The Poll, It Must Deal With The TreasurerThe Sunday Age · 19 May 2013Immigration Election: We’ve Been Here BeforeABC The Drum · 5 Mar 2013If It Looks And Smells Like A Campaign, Then It’s A CampaignABC The Drum · 5 Feb 2013This Mindless Pursuit Of Scandal Belongs To The PastThe Sunday Age · 30 Dec 2012Losing Interest In Our Rate ObsessionABC The Drum · 11 Dec 2012Liberals’ Legacy Of Mass Migration Is At StakeABC The Drum · 27 Nov 2012The Coalition’s Impressionist Platform Paints The Wrong PictureThe Sunday Age · 18 Nov 2012Don’t believe the Asian century hypeABC The Drum · 31 Oct 2012Rose-Coloured Glasses Make For Sentimental FoolsThe Sunday Age · 14 Oct 2012Is navel-gazing our fastest growing industry?ABC The Drum · 11 Sep 2012WorkChoices Demon Used To Fire Up The Labor BaseABC The Drum · 28 Aug 2012Be like Gough: 75 Radical Ideas To Transform AustraliaIPA Review · 5 Aug 2012Abbott Should Focus On His Second Day As PMABC The Drum · 3 Jul 2012Gillard Plays The Unedifying ‘Small Australia’ CardABC The Drum · 29 May 2012Reward Welfare A Recipe For Entitlement CultureABC The Drum · 24 Apr 2012O’Farrell’s Campaign Finance Reforms Are AbominableABC The Drum · 22 Feb 2012What’s Wrong With ‘No’?ABC The Drum · 10 Jan 2012Prime Ministerial Musical ChairsABC The Drum · 14 Sep 2011Liberty Gets The ChopThe Sunday Age · 11 Sep 2011Abbott Chases Working Votes Even Menzies ForgotABC The Drum · 1 Jun 2011Why Bad Policy Can Be Good PoliticsABC The Drum · 19 Apr 2011Gillard’s Government Balancing ActABC The Drum · 28 Dec 2010Staring Through The Greens’ Populist PrismABC The Drum · 17 Nov 2010Economic Populism: A Minefield For The LiberalsABC The Drum · 26 Oct 2010Savaging a popular policy a tricky task for TurnbullThe Sunday Age · 19 Sep 2010Life under Gillard could be an expensive businessThe Sunday Age · 5 Sep 2010Moving forward mantra Gillard’s biggest mistakeABC The Drum · 20 Aug 2010Budget honesty charter corruptedThe Sunday Age · 15 Aug 2010Telling it like it isABC The Drum · 10 Aug 2010Greens find growing up is hard to doThe Sunday Age · 8 Aug 2010Talking the talk on walking the beatThe Sunday Age · 1 Aug 2010Greens’ population policy no better than the othersABC The Drum · 26 Jul 2010Spending cuts in the obvious placesABC The Drum · 22 Jul 2010Rudd is gone, but he’s still the focusThe Sunday Age · 18 Jul 2010Chasing the xenophobic voteABC The Drum · 29 Jun 2010Coup is good news for WhitlamThe Sunday Age · 27 Jun 2010It’s alive, after a fashionThe Sunday Age · 13 Jun 2010The Blame Game Is All Canberra’s FaultThe Sunday Age · 18 Apr 2010Who Should Run The Biggest Business In The Country?ABC The Drum · 7 Apr 2010Liberal Leadership AftershocksABC The Drum · 30 Mar 2010Follow The LeaderThe Sunday Age · 21 Mar 2010The Ghost Of Liberals PastABC The Drum · 16 Mar 2010Debunking The Mummy Party Vs Daddy Party Theory Of PoliticsABC Unleashed · 15 Dec 2009Here’s What Isn’t HappeningCrikey · 30 Nov 2009Keeping up with Kevin: Kevin Rudd’s testosterone technocracyIPA Review · 1 Mar 2009IPA Review Editorial, November 2008IPA Review · 1 Nov 2008Not Fascist At AllOverland · 21 May 2008IPA Review Editorial, May 2008IPA Review · 1 May 2008Rudd’s Super Summit Puts The Con Into ConsensusThe Sunday Age · 10 Feb 2008What next? Liberalism after the Howard governmentIPA Review · 1 Jan 2008Where The Liberals Went WrongGeelong Advertiser · 13 Dec 2007Religious Right? Have A Little Faith In The ProcessThe Sunday Age · 11 Nov 2007Aunty Will Be Proud Of Maxine’s CandidacyThe Australian · 27 Feb 2007