Albanese at the Vatican plays to faith optics and domestic politics
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s presence at Pope Leo’s inauguration is shrewd politics. DARIUS VON GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI explains why.
Politics
Political news and analysis from the ACT and Federal Parliaments
Sussan Ley and David Littleproud have had a prickly relationship – political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN wonders if they they negotiate a smooth future for the Coalition.
JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED masterfully reveal the shocking reality of clinical priorities in ACT public hospitals being set by bureaucrats, not doctors, looking to save $27 million from the hospital budget.
Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss. But the Liberals will need to think differently, says FRANK BONGIORNO.
Political commentary
‘Unpreceded difficulty’: Ley walks the leadership tightrope
Sussan Ley makes history, but faces unprecedented levels of difficulty, writes MARK KENNY.
Political commentary
It goes wrong when parties think they know better
"There are just a few big things to get right in a federal campaign: leader, policies and messaging. It is simple. No, it is," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
Political commentary
Hot mess: Ley’s bittersweet milestone
New Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Liberals must ‘meet the people where they are’, but how can a divided party do that, asks MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"Delay after delay is not necessary. The issues are understood… table amendments to the VAD Act now and seek to have them passed in time to facilitate better legislation coming into effect in November," writes columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
PM Albanese shifts Tanya Plibersek from environment, in favour of ‘can-do’ Murray Watt. writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
One of Labor's most senior women has been shifted out of a key portfolio as the prime minister shakes up his cabinet after a landslide election win.
If Jacinta Nampijinpa Price became Liberal deputy it would be a wild ride, says political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Two ministers and the Nationals discover the limits of loyalty in politics, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
There's a bitter struggle among the Liberals for a likely poisoned chalice, as Jacinta Price defects from Nationals, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN wonders if we're seeing a a budding Trump-Albanese bromance.
Second-term Albanese will face policy pressure, devastated Liberals have only bad options, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Dutton and the Coalition did not do the work, and misread the Australian mood, writes political columnist MARK KENNY.
Labor routs the Coalition as voters reject Dutton’s undercooked offering, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN reveals the key markers on the bumpy road to the federal election.
Election Diary: post-election rate cut and phone call from Trump are in the pipeline, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
