Once the election hype settles, Labor must deliver on its promises. And, of course, these policies will ultimately have to be paid for.
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We’ve been here before - a state Labor government on the nose, a federal election looming, and federal Labor desperate to minimise the damage in Victoria.
The surge of successful independent MPs at the 2022 election shows no sign of changing – and in fact may grow more powerful still.
Anthony Albanese must use his talented front bench to convince voters that inside his government there’s a better one waiting to break out.
The most successful coalitions oversees have been formed using a similar model – Australia should do the same.
As expected, Labor lost ground from its extraordinary result in 2021, but those votes did not necessarily go to the Liberals.
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today, and the ones that fell by the wayside.
The biggest changes to the electoral donations laws in 40 years risk undermining democracy by favouring the major parties over independents.
While there’s plenty of information in the latest data disclosure, Australians are still in the dark about exactly who funds our political parties at election time.
\Albanese is playing godfather again, hoping that in Tasmania a clever choice of candidate might help in Tasmania.
Two Labor heavyweights examine where the party has come from, and where it might be heading.
The former Labor Senator, now independent, plans to contest the Senate in every state.
As a person with a severe physical disability, my life, like that of so many others in Australia, has been transformed by the NDIS.
The argument that we need to protect sports gambling ads to look after the interests of giant media brands has little merit. Losing this revenue would hurt, but the industry would be able to adapt.
The prime minister has made changes that will strengthen his team ahead if the next election, though not as many as he might have, given factional constraints.
Cabinet ministers Linda Burney and Brendan O'Connor will be standing down from the frontbench, opening vacancies for Anthony Albanese to reshuffle his ministry.
Labor’s solidarity pledge is effective and necessary - and has been so for more than 100 years. But it only works properly if MPs can freely voice their concerns and disagreements in caucus.
The Western Australian senator will sit on the crossbench after refusing to accept party solidarity on the Gaza war.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has crossed the floor to support a motion backing a Palestinian state against members of her own party.
In a sensible bit o forward planning Albanese told caucus it should be focused on crafting an offer for the second term, evidence of how politics is now in what’s dubbed the “permanent campaign”.
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