Matt Canavan, who confirmed this week he'll seek to move from the Senate to the lower house, will be favourite to win the central Queensland seat of Capricornia, despite One Nation having a solid vote there before the party's national…
Councillor Carly Moore has been elected Mayor of Hume City for a record fifth term, becoming the first Mayor in metropolitan Melbourne to achieve five mayoral terms since modern record-keeping. The milestone cements Cr Moore's place as one of Victoria's…
Tasmanians paying for 13 years of Liberal waste Parliament returns this week after six weeks off, and the Liberals' mess has only grown while they've been away. Last week TT-Line reported a $723 million loss, with debt set to hit $1.15 billion. The…
Political Parties & Polarization Writing from Mussolini’s prison in 1930, the Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci observed of democracies in his era: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this…
The Crisafulli Government has delivered nation-leading reforms to strengthen Queensland's child safeguarding systems, with the Queensland Protection Commission Bill 2026 passing Parliament, fixing failures from the former Labor Government identified in the landmark In Plain Sight report. As recommended by In…
As the pitch of the election campaign intensifies in New Zealand, a very particular species of political phenomenon has emerged: so-called strategic (or tactical) voting and its potential consequence, a parliamentary overhang. Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Te Herenga Waka…
The Coalition is under pressure from One Nation, and its response is becoming increasingly clear. Angus Taylor is pushing a much harder line on immigration, borrowing language that echoes populist movements overseas. At the same time, One Nation is escalating…
Australian Labor Party (ALP): caucus updates, policy, and coalition dynamics.
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