"How parties and candidates frame their messaging and identify with voters in the first stages of the federal election will have a significant bearing on the final result," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles on Canberrans with a story. This week he meets a familiar TV news face who's gone from writing fact to fiction.
"We have seen an upsurge in far-right politics that has been heavily based on the refugee and immigration issue, but it will affect many people other than refugees," writes JOHN MINNS.