Madonna King writes in Crikey
As much as this election is a story shunning Scott Morrison, it’s also a story about the rise of strong, savvy and professional women.
A story that began with Brittany Higgins and Chanel Contos and Grace Tame, and was carried on by their big sisters last...
Pete Fry writes in Pearls and IrritationsMany Australians see New Zealand’s MMP voting system as a complex German-based foreign contraption which has little to offer us. Pete Fry argues that for its users it is a simple responsive transparent process which could help to improve our trust in politics...
Independent Zali Steggall has retained her northern beaches seat of Warringah, increasing her margin over the Liberal Party as she fended off a challenge from Liberal candidate Katherine Deves, who shot to national attention as a result of her controversial views of trans people.
Steggall captured Warringah from former Liberal...
Kishor Napier-Raman writes in Crikey
Labor is well on track to form government in some form, despite recording a primary vote of just 31%.
That means that while tonight was a bloodbath for the Coalition all over the country, it was hardly a definitive victory for the opposition. Western Australia delivered...
Wendy Harmer writes in CrikeyIt’s 10pm, election night, and I’m waiting for my lift home from the Dee Why RSL. This is where the independent Dr Sophie Scamps team has gathered and scored a historic victory. They’re still partying upstairs in their sky-blue T-shirts.
Out the front, I’ve gathered one...
https://www.crikey.com.au/author/margotsaville/ Margot Saville writes in Crikey
When Antony Green first mentioned the Wentworth electorate at 7.24pm, saying that Spender and Sharma were at 59.5% and 40.5%, the Bondi Bowling Club erupted into ear-splitting cheers.
With 1200 volunteers on Spender’s team, about half that number — sweaty, exhausted and ecstatic, turned up...
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey
Anthony Albanese will be Australia’s next prime minister after a chaotic night of election results delivered government to Labor — though without it yet being clear whether it will govern in minority or majority.
The night saw a swing against both parties that delivered a...
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian
There will be plenty of time for postmortems of election campaigns after Saturday night. As the clock winds down to the closing of the polls, I’ve been processing the sum of the past three years.
Back in the middle of 2020, at the end of...
Robin Boyle writes in Pearls and IrritationsGovernment outsourcing in Australia occurs in many ways. It can provide the best outcome for the community. But at the other extreme, it could mean a case of outright corruption. If there is inadequate monitoring and accountability, the Australian public at large could...