It’s not like the dark cloud of Kevin Rudd over Julia Gillard in 2013 but Tony Abbott’s shadow is hovering over Malcolm Turnbull’s campaign. It was there ominously on Wednesday, when the Prime Minister…
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Talk of a Labor-Green coalition brings with it images of Julia Gillard and Bob Brown signing the agreement that helped usher in her minority government.
Chris Bowen’s budget response set the framework for this campaign - now for the detail.
The Greens are set to play a significant role in the election campaign and the new parliament. They are looking for gains in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
A 2014 memo from the RBA is being used like a political football in the current election campaign, but this was never its intended purpose.
Both the Liberal and Labor parties focused their very first television ads of the 2016 campaign on Labor leader Bill Shorten.
Many of the most commonly used election terms have a long linguistic history, stretching from ancient Rome to modern-day America and Australia.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is not the only senior politician having conniptions about his seat. Anthony Albanese was in his New South Wales electorate of Grayndler on Monday, the first full day…
The recent history of elections in Australia is a varied one, with some spectacular crashes and own goals along the way.
As the 2016 election campaign formally begins, new polling shows Scott Morrison’s budget has failed to inspire and the government and Labor are locked in a close race. The Fairfax Ipsos poll has the Coalition…
What is a double-dissolution election? How does it differ from an ordinary election? And why the rush after the budget?
What are the key policy issues on which the 2016 federal election will be fought?
Eight weeks of deadlines, debates, press releases, public appearances and handshaking. What should politicians and their teams do to stay healthy and sane?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is going to Government House to obtain a double-dissolution poll on July 2.
The government’s economic narrative began to emerge more clearly this week when it handed down its first budget.
Ever since Malcolm Turnbull declared he’d call an election for July 2 if the Senate defied him, we’ve been counting down towards Sunday’s formal announcement of the start of a marathon campaign.
In his budget reply, Bill Shorten avoided the government’s traps and wisely stressed his party’s traditional strengths: health, education and social policy.
Bill Shorten has claimed savings of $71 billion over ten years – most of it from rejecting almost all the budget’s company tax cut.
On the cusp of calling the election, Malcolm Turnbull sat down with Michelle Grattan to talk about the budget.
While the key Budget slogan is “jobs and growth”, there’s no detail on how and from where.
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