Dennis Atkins
Dennis Atkins: Morrison lost an election he should not have lost. And he still doesn’t get why
Scott Morrison said at the beginning of this seemingly never-ending election campaign that Australia faced a choice and not a referendum. This...
Let’s face it – we’re addicted to polls, even if they’ve got things so wrong in the past
Despite having all but sworn off opinion polls three years ago, we have again hooked up to the drip and started running...
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison is reading off the Bob Hawke playbook. It’s not working
Even after 38 years have passed, everything about the 1984 federal election campaign feels completely unreal. It was, at 53 days, one...
Morrison needs a little bit of magic and a big stroke of luck, but both are in short supply
It’s clear Anthony Albanese and his Labor team are not out to create great art – as the precisely cautious campaign launch...
Sydney or the bush – and why Labor might need to win both to claim election
It’s the big conundrum inside election 2022. Can Labor win without picking up any regional seats in Queensland or Western Australia –...
Why spending a week out of the spotlight might not be such a bad thing for Albanese
In an election campaign where 12 hours can’t pass without someone getting their hair on fire, the end of the second week...
Oh, what a lovely war: Morrison’s strutting on national security is sure to carry a cost
As Scott Morrison’s war talk speech to the Lowy Institute on Monday made clear, the Prime Minister wants a May election framed...
Scott Morrison hopes for a miracle election win, but the polls suggest he’s dreaming
Behind the cacophony of Europe’s darkest days and nights since sunlight was let in at the end of the 1939 to 1945...
Dennis Atkins: For Scott Morrison, currying favour with voters just isn’t working
During an election campaign debate between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott in 2013, the ever-talkative incumbent prime minister delivered a programmatically specific...
Australian politics made a complete fool of itself in 2021, and there’s more fun on the way
Parliament has embarrassed itself to a standstill, politics in Australia has plumbed never-imagined depths of degradation and dishonour, and what passes for...