It is a global phenomenon that voters are looking for change. I have to ask, change to what? In this increasingly challenging world, on recent experience, it’s best to be careful what you wish for.
Gina Rinehart’s latest foray into media ownership is part of a longer strategy of political influence she has been shaping since she started cultivating student politicians in the 1970s.
Although the government was prepared for a debate over housing following its budget, it was blindsided by a meme war over capital gains and a non-existent ‘death tax’.
Donation reforms and the rapid rise of One Nation have rekindled a conversation about whether community independents of all stripes should form a party.
Labor strategists are treating One Nation as the party to beat in the 2028 federal election, with a plan honed for a fundamentally altered political landscape.
EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with The Saturday Paper, NDIS Minister Mark Butler concedes that the scale of fraud used to justify sweeping new legislation is worth only a fraction of the targeted savings.
Tony Abbott’s run to become the Liberal Party’s federal president is just the first step in returning to a lower house seat, possibly on the Central Coast or in Melbourne.
