Paul Bongiorno
Sussan Ley runs her own government through a sheep dip
The inability of the Turnbull government to read the electorate never ceases to amaze. The latest example is the Prime Minister refusing...
Super Saturday has the government and opposition worried
Australia will see a super Saturday of five byelections probably in early July, but the results could be as confusing as the...
Budget 2018: Why this is Scott Morrison’s last roll of the dice
Forget all the disclaimers that Scott Morrison’s third budget, to be delivered on Tuesday night, is not the last before the next election....
PM, Treasurer counting on voter amnesia to sell the budget
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison will be relying heavily on the old dictum ‘a week is a long time...
Don’t forget what Turnbull and Abbott really thought about the banks
Malcolm Turnbull’s understatement from Berlin that it “would have been better for us politically” to have called a royal commission into the...
Embattled Malcolm Turnbull goes on a war footing
Before he jets off to discuss international security in London, Brussels and Berlin, Malcolm Turnbull has announced a new Australian Defence Force...
John Howard is Malcolm Turnbull’s silver lining
Malcolm Turnbull is a goner unless he can emulate John Howard’s Houdini-like skills by a mixture of shrewd backdowns, shameless vote-buying, ruthless opportunism...
Backbenchers deliver electric shock treatment to the Prime Minister
Outspoken Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly wants the nation to seriously believe he and at least 20 other Coalition MPs, including a former prime...
The protracted company tax debate is not helping Malcolm Turnbull
Some believe the government brought on the company tax debate to run interference as the 29th Newspoll was due. If that’s the...
Labor’s secret weapon in Batman win: Catholics
If you listen to the Prime Minister and his Treasurer, the weekend byelection in the Melbourne seat of Batman was a “race...