With polling day just around the corner, six experts analyse the political movements across the country, and what it might mean electorally.
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Labor and the Coalition have both made some big housing policy announcements this election, but there are real problems going unaddressed.
Gen Z and Millennial women are more likely than men to be undecided voters. They’re also more likely to vote based on cost-of-living concerns.
Memes are the currency of the election campaign online. Here’s a report card on the Labor, Liberal and Greens efforts, from the good to the tone-deaf.
After an election campaign largely silent on women’s safety issues, the major parties have unveiled their policies. They fall well short of what is needed.
Young voters will decide who makes up Australia’s next government. Here’s how they might vote.
Politicians can make it hard to hold them to their promises. Here are some of the tactics they use.
The debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton had its moments, but viewers learned little more than they already knew.
From Anthony Albanese’s baby steps approach to reform to Peter Dutton’s policy about-face, who’s doing better on the campaign trail?
In what’s sure to be a closely fought election, every vote counts, but some seats will see particularly tight races. Which ones are most at play?
Anthony Albanese is improving in the preferred prime minister stakes, but the overall margins remain tight.
Polling shows the Democrat and Republican nominees remain in a tight race. The same can’t be said for the Queensland state election, where the LNP is polling strongly ahead of the Labor government.
The US presidential race continues to be tight, while the Coalition holds a narrow lead over Labor in one Australian federal poll.
The CLP has won majority government in an election that saw the Labor Chief Minister lose government and her own seat.
With polling day on Saturday, the incumbent Labor government is facing an uphill battle to stay in power, but neither major party is acknowledging the elephant in the room.
Polling indicates Kamala Harris’s candidacy has tightened the US presidential race. At home, the numbers are a mixed bag for the government.
Senator Fatima Payman, who quit Labor last week to sit as a crossbench independent, says she would advise Muslims not to form their own political party.
The most serious challenges for Australia’s political system and social cohesion are not the prospect of a Muslim party or political movement.
According to a report in The Australian, senior Labor figures are now raising questions about Payman’s eligibility to sit in parliament because she could be a dual citizen.
Senator Fatima Payman announced on Thursday she was quitting her party in a move that will leave divisions and wounds that will not be healed easily or soon.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer of Australian Politics, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor of Politics and Journalism, Griffith University, Griffith University
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