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 building on each flank.
The building a few hundred metres to your left was created for...
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 RSL.
The event, with Liberal MP for Mackellar Jason Falinski, was billed as a ‘‘politics in...
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 election campaign have increased the possibility that neither of the two major parties will gain...
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” a hung parliament. In 2010, Wilkie did a formal “deal” to support Julia Gillard. When...
Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison fails the ‘character’ test posed by his Warringah candidate
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
For months there has been a great deal of debate about Scott Morrison’s “character”.
Now, in the controversy over Katherine Deves, the Liberal candidate for Warringah who Morrison refused to dump despite a...
I was there at the beginning. The moderate faction of the Liberal Party had its genesis at a meeting at Don Quixote Restaurant in Sydney, some time in the early 1980s. We saw ourselves as a vanguard in the party, a bunch of young turks eager to make our...
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing.
Distinguishing migrants from asylum...
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing.
Distinguishing migrants from asylum...
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing.
Distinguishing migrants from asylum...
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing.
Distinguishing migrants from asylum...