Two state elections don’t offer a lot of insight into possible federal outcomes. But Pauline Hanson’s party has two leaders looking over their shoulders.
The former treasurer is not the first former treasurer to urge spending restraint he never practised.
The declaration often heard in focus groups echoes back: it is time to blow the place up. Goulburn seems to have decided that Pauline Hanson is the one to do it.
Appeasing the One Nation vote days before a critical WA byelection looked good from Sydney. The vote-whispering fell into the ALP’s long-perfected racism trap.
Existing data collections provide a much richer picture for policymakers. We should be grateful governments don’t interrogate them as we are already taxed enough.
It’s time to admit homelessness is not about homes, but about complicated lives.
As NSW Premier Chris Minns has given into public sector unions on wages, it’s no wonder there is less money for case workers to identify more children at risk.
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson’s chances of becoming premier may well come down to one rogue MP, Moira Deeming.
If it keeps dancing around Pauline Hanson’s party instead of fighting the industrial relations changes, the Coalition will condemn its business base to bankruptcy.
The battle over the cutbacks highlights the severe electoral risks for any government trying to rein in spiralling recurrent expenditure and demand-driven schemes.
Anna Cody’s recent declaration that trans women can be considered potentially pregnant had every hairdresser talking, and not in a way that was good for her.
Just as One Nation was the political beneficiary of the Bondi massacre, so it is also likely to be the beneficiary of Labor’s tax changes.
Even if intergenerational wealth inequity were a thing, building a budget based on doubtful savings and greater taxes on capital will not solve it.
The Liberal and National Parties would be smart to support Mark Butler’s reforms, rejecting the opportunity for a short-lived friendship with disability advocates.
Independent members representing Australia’s most affluent seats are acting like populist protest parties by ignoring the nation’s spiralling debt.
Perversely, in Australia’s preferential systems, One Nation will continue to elect Labor governments they do not want until the centre-right lifts its game.
Rebuilding Australia’s lost sovereignty will take serious money, either through subsidy, strategic deregulation or regulatory incentives.
Anna Cody has been ridiculed for not knowing what a biological man is; she should now lead an informed and agnostic inquiry into what it is to be a woman.
The party’s decision to block the release of its election review will disappoint many. They cannot learn from past mistakes if they do not know what they are.
It would be a great pity if the millions of people around the world reading the latest instalment concluded merely that the British royal family needed an overhaul.
