Geoff Crisp speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics.
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In the event, the federal election turned out to be more about the economy than the environment. But there are steps the Coalition government can take to help conservation and boost the economy too.
While polls have been patchy for some years, analysis shows they have been particularly out of whack since Morrison became prime minister.
Jim Chalmers, from the right of the Labor party, has been receiving support from those who believe the party needs generational change.
The Queensland Labor government still must approve two outstanding environmental management plans for the Adani mine to go ahead.
Queensland has a proud place in Labor history. But the 2019 election shows the federal Labor Party no longer understands the issues that matter to Queensland voters.
Under cover of a speech from the Reserve Bank governor, the Prudential Regulation Authority has moved to make it 10% easier to borrow.
This election showed that Australia is stuck with an increasingly polarised media, a highly concentrated media ownership landscape and no apparent way to do anything about it.
The Australian Labor Party’s economic agenda seems to have overlooked three fundamental principles of behavioural economics.
You could compare election opinion polls to penalty shoot-outs at a World Cup final: there’s huge pressure to get it right and we remember the big misses most of all.
Australia needs to rein in the ever-increasing role of private money in federal elections with caps on political advertising and donations.
The Tasmanian seats of Bass and Braddon were always going to be key elements of a Coalition victory – and so it proved to be.
Monday’s share market surge was a pure as any a test of what the market thought.
People expect financial institutions to serve them better in the wake of the royal commission. There’s reason to believe they won’t, for long.
Labor’s finance spokesman Jim Chalmers confirmed he is considering standing for leader, which would put him up against leftwinger Anthony Albanese, who is already campaigning hard for the position.
Election data suggests the Coalition’s victory wasn’t so surprising after all – long-term trends pointed toward a Labor loss, given the various factors in play in this election.
Frydenberg and Morrison will have to switch from boasting about the economy to fixing it, quickly.
Observers will lament that Saturday’s result shows it is impossible for an opposition to win with a robust change agenda. It might, however, be the case that just too much was piled into it.
Especially in Queensland, right-wing populist parties like One Nation and United Australia Party had a significant impact on how seats played out, and especially taking votes from Labor.
Labor’s defeat revives a familiar problem in Australian political history: the left’s inability to show how its policies can improve people’s material conditions.
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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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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer of Australian Politics, Murdoch University
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Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland, Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland