Analysis of the polls shows the deposing of Malcolm Turnbull made absolutely no electoral sense.
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The new deputy is the Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, 47, from Victoria, who won overwhelmingly, from fellow Victorian Greg Hunt and Queenslander Steve Ciobo.
Turnbull brought a Menzian style to his leadership, but the world has changed quite a bit since Robert Menzies.
Our revolving door prime ministers are the result of the politicians being too responsive to what we think, and there being too few of them.
Whether we end up with Prime Minister Turnbull, Dutton, Morrison or Bishop – it will not be sweetness and light among those who find themselves at the “out-group” when the dust begins to settle.
The Liberals who want to tear down Malcolm Turnbull claim they are in a battle for the heart and soul of the party - but where is this heart and soul, and how strong is it?
News Corp, Sky News and 2GB have contributed to the creeping ‘Foxification’ of Australian politics over the life of the Turnbull government.
Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership appears over, with senior ministers deserting him in favour of challenger Peter Dutton.
Whoever ends up the Liberal prime minister will need to articulate a more coherent economic policy to help everyday Australians.
Australians are angry about electricity prices and both the federal government and opposition are proposing to cap them. Will this approach work, and what are the risks?
In staying hostage to this right-wing lunge, rather than fighting to move it back to the mainstream, Turnbull erased his moderate face, destroying his only utility – electoral utility – to the Liberals.
It’s time Australian states took a lesson from US states when it comes to working around obstructive federal climate change policies.
Peter Dutton has a solid base on which to work to become Liberal leader. That’s the way it usually goes- wound the first time, kill the second.
The crowding of the centre-right is having profound consequences for Australian politics, not just Turnbull’s troubled time as prime minister.
The prime minister has survived a challenge from the conservative wing of his party- but the deep divisions remain.
Our penchant for overturning political leaders didn’t appear overnight. But it has been intensified through constant polls and, in the Liberals’ case, the fact that the party allows it.
We need to move past biased, opaque models for energy policies.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has abandoned the emissions-reduction component of his signature energy policy, in the latest chapter of a brutal decade-long saga for Australian climate policy.
The latest polls show the government’s internal divisions are taking their toll- and some of its members are seriously out of step with the general public on energy policy.
The prime minister has capitulated on his controversial energy policy in an attempt to quell the ring-wing uprising within his party.
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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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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Emerita Professor of Politics, Adelaide University
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne CSHE, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Senior Project Manager, Murdoch University
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, University of Canberra
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Professor of History and Politics, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology