Paul Bongiorno
There’s plenty more to worry about besides byelections
Malcolm Turnbull has his mind on far more than the results of the Super Saturday byelections in three weeks’ time. Win or...
The silver lining in a horror fortnight for Bill Shorten
Losses for Labor in the seats of Longman and Braddon at the Super Saturday byelections may trigger a move against Labor leader...
Class war has Turnbull scrambling for the high ground
The truce of the last election that saw Labor leave Malcolm Turnbull’s wealth alone and the Prime Minister ignore Bill Shorten’s union...
Tax face-off takes voters for mugs
The take-it-or-leave-it proposition the government is putting to the Senate on personal income tax cuts is so brazen as to be breathtaking....
Barnaby Joyce runs interference again
Barnaby Joyce is back on the campaign trail. The former deputy prime minister has spectacularly inserted himself into the political maelstrom by...
Barnaby bushwhacks the government – and himself
Barnaby Joyce is finished. That’s the firm view of colleagues in his Nationals party room in Canberra. Sunday night’s supposed tell-all paid...
Why Shorten can still bank on company tax cuts
It will take a lot more than a controversial opinion poll to bump Bill Shorten off his campaign against big company tax...
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....