Most MPs are quietly shuffling pages or slouching and scrolling – until all hell breaks loose. Usually when schoolkids enter. And then all bets are off.
Some senior Liberals in Mackellar were convinced a female candidate was needed to take on teal MP Sophie Scamps. Instead,the party chose a man.
Gina Rinehart’s unbridled endorsement of Donald Trump’s agenda is depressing.
The exclusive findings also reveal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton gaining a big boost on his personal performance,drawing level with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as preferred leader.
Labor and the Coalition can both see the biggest lesson from Trump’s victory:do not be distracted from the cost of living.
The opposition leader has drawn a parallel between US and Australian voters. But MPs in his party see different points of attack from Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
Trump’s motto is America First,which means Australia will be put in its place. Albanese said of Trump in 2017:“He scares the shit out of me.”
Trump’s influence on the Australian body politic has been profound and malignant. Labor’s task now is to show Dutton would make life worse,not better.
The political bunfight broke out after Nationals and Opposition Leader Shane Love told a firearms and fisheries session in Bunbury last week his party would not form government with the Liberals unless they committed to scrapping regulations enforcing the Firearms Act changes.
Liberal National Party senator Matt Canavan says abortion won’t be an issue at the election,but he won’t withdraw his “born alive” bill.
In early counts of votes in the local government elections,there has already been clear political shifts in some key Melbourne councils.