The usual tensions between prime minister and treasurer, which simmer when the government looks cooked, could easily boil over. The danger signs are there.
Anthony Albanese is suffering from severe “meloncholia”. His only silver lining is that One Nation’s rise is doing even more damage to Angus Taylor and the Coalition.
On the day Andrew Hastie vowed to die before kneeling to One Nation, Angus Taylor was squirming over whether he supported multiculturalism or monoculturalism.
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 the official opposition. Enter Tony Abbott.
It is rare outside a federal election for the fortunes of all political leaders, their parties and the non-aligned to be broken, restored or enhanced in the space of a few days. They will be over the next week.
Andrew Hastie is the most persistent, most outspoken and most lethal critic of Trump in Australian politics. He fully expects Gina Rinehart to spare no effort or expense to destroy him.
Smart Liberals believe the coming Farrer byelection could be a two-horse race, with neither horse wearing Liberal or National colours. That would be bad enough. What would be worse, for everyone, is if One Nation won. That too is possible.
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 extreme, to think that it could be kept secret.
A growing number of Liberal MPs privately concede the differences within and between the parties are intractable and irreconcilable, so entrenched that neither leadership changes nor a re-formed Coalition can resolve them.
Anthony Albanese had kept Project Georgia a tightly held secret in the hope of forcing the opposition to make a mistake. As Niki Savva writes in an exclusive extract, the tactic succeeded beyond Labor’s wildest dreams.
