While the major parties play the traditional, convenient, presidential-style blame games, and the media placidly comply, a growing number in the electorate are clamouring for politics to be done differently. Old stuff is not...
Independents versus a broken system
John Hewson
Despite the efforts of the media to discredit the independents’ movement, attempting to tag them as “fake independents” and otherwise minimising their coverage, there should be little doubt that...
Libs spin in Debts and Dragons
SMH's Peter Hartcher writes
If you stand in front of Old Parliament House in Canberra, looking across Lake Burley Griffin, you’ll see that there’s an unobtrusive yet serious-looking office...
DODGING QUESTIONS
Voters and Liberal Party members were kept waiting more than 45 minutes to meet controversial candidate Katherine Deves last night as advisers schemed for her to avoid the media waiting at the Forestville...
Could the 2022 election result in a hung parliament? History shows Australians have nothing to fear from it
AAP/Mick Tsikas
Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University and David Lee, UNSW Sydney
The first two weeks of the 2022...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Andrew Wilkie, MP for the Tasmanian seat of Clark, has “lived”...