Dutton raises white flag on working from home
Election Diary: Dutton backs down on working-from-home crackdown after outcry threatens to cost votes, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Politics
Political news and analysis from the ACT and Federal Parliaments
Trying too hard for a special tariff deal with Trump could be the wrong way to go, says political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Election diary: Dutton tries to shake off Trump dust and avoid being trapped on wages, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN takes a cheeky look at one couple's response to election campaigning!
Political commentary
How far could Dutton get on changing ‘woke’ education?
Dutton flags intervention in what he sees as ‘woke’ education, but how much could he actually do, asks political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Political commentary
Framing those first impressions matter to winning
"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.
Political commentary
Why won’t Labor fix democracy on Norfolk Island?
" Norfolk Island has, to Australia’s enduring shame, joined Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands as non-self-governing territories, or in other words, as colonies," writes columnist JON STANHOPE.
Energy is in the foreground – but climate change is ‘in the shadows’, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"It is critical for elected members to distinguish between a motion framed to be a strong opinion versus a much more serious issue such as misleading, incompetence, corruption or lack of integrity," writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
Dutton has questions to answer on gas; Albanese has a supermarket answer still hunting for the problem, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Uncertainty and pessimism abound. Will fear be enough to push Dutton into office, asks FRANK BONGIORNO.
Amid the excitement of an election announcement, cartoonist PAUL DORIN is nonplussed.
Labor’s in with a fighting chance, but must work around an unpopular leader, writes CHRIS WALLACE.
Can Peter Dutton flip Labor voters to rewrite electoral history? It might just work, writes MARK KENNY.
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN sets the election scene saying the prospect of uninspiring leaders, stressed voters and the shadow of Trump make for an uncertain contest.
"The Commonwealth's largesse is a bad deal in that it foists a project on the ACT that we, quite clearly, cannot afford." JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED reveal how the federal government is pork barreling the tram. But why?
PAUL DORIN aims his cartoon at the lot of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
A ‘modest’ tax bribe, delivered against dark clouds of Trump-induced uncertainty is how politcal columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN sees the federal budget.
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN lists the five things economist Chris Richardson says to look for in the budget – and explains why we really need another budget soon.
