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The big question now is how this new media-politics-money combination will form an effective force on the right of Australian politics.
On the back of her party’s recent success, Pauline Hanson’s confidence is soaring - and she’s backing herself for the top job.
New Liberal federal president Tony Abbott has sought to rally the party, pitching a new direction for the Liberals.
The moderate Liberal, who lost his seat last year, said his party was now ‘fighting for its existence’ – and can’t ignore the need to work with One Nation.
The former prime minister has been nominated unopposed.
John Howard was fond of saying good policy is good politics. Medicare’s survival through his government and others, seems to prove that point.
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
The former Liberal prime minister says he wrote a new history book ‘to help contemporary Australians think better of themselves’.
The Labor federal government will be the most diverse in history, driven by the influx of women members who outnumber the men in both caucus and cabinet.
A network of Australian Christian groups have adapted the language of global right-wing populism to amplify their influence on Australian politics.
The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.
There’s a popular belief that a good leader will win an election for their party, while a bad one will lose it. The numbers show this isn’t necessarily true.
And, for the first time, this cabinet paper release contains records from the national security committee, a powerful subgroup of cabinet.
Unlike former President Joko Widodo, who launched a war on drugs, Prabowo Subianto wants to be seen as an outward-looking leader eager to improve Indonesia’s international standing.
In assessing Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
Arguably, the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison era represents a nadir when it comes to the history of Australian national leadership.
The 2003 Cabinet papers, released today by the National Archives of Australia, reveal the machinations over Australia’s entry into the Iraq war.
The referendum has highlighted what many have previously overlooked or denied: that Indigenous Australians (like other Australians) aren’t of one political mind
Many Liberal politicians have been passionate about redressing Indigenous disadvantage, but have come unstuck by the pitfall of ‘settler liberalism’.
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