MARK RILEY: Who can best manage Australia’s relationship with Donald Trump will be the key foreign policy question in the coming election campaign.
Mark Riley
Journalists aren’t the only people curious about how the cyclone’s arrival might affect Albanese’s thinking on whether to visit the Governor-General on Sunday or Monday to call an election for April 12.
If the crossbench’s primary consideration is to honour the will of the people, then it would be easy to argue that their will was to remove Labor from power.
The economic data tells us Australians are actually better off than they were in 2022. Good luck getting voters to believe it
Labor Premier Steven Miles has run the better campaign. It probably won’t matter. The groundswell for change has been building for two years.When Queensland swings, it swings hard.
MARK RILEY: A fallen tree trunk halfway up a vertiginous mountain in the crippling humidity of the PNG jungle turns out to be the perfect place to engage in a bit of a deep and meaningful with two PMs.
The Parliament is acting like a giant funnel this week in a manner that has left many observers scratching their heads.
In just eight days, the voters of Dunkley will go to a by-election that will act as a litmus test for the Albanese Government.
Former Labor cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon was renowned for his straight talking. It frequently got him into trouble. Often with his own side.
A new measure has appeared in the preponderance of polling that takes the temperature of the Australian electorate.
Government strategists often talk of establishing ‘political frames’. It is an important part of what they do.
To paraphrase the late, great astrophysicist Carl Sagan ‘there is no such thing as a stupid question’. There are only bad answers.
Things are beginning to turn for the Albanese Government. The impression it has built of controlled authority is looking shaky.
The nature of the political contest changed on Wednesday. Irrevocably. The clash of leaders has become nasty, ugly, visceral.
Anthony Albanese’s visit to Beijing’s famous Temple of Heaven this week was a moment rich in metaphor and symbolism. But not everyone was thrilled.
Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations wasn’t just the best speech he delivered in office, it was one of the best by any prime minister since federation.
Somewhere along the line, someone realised that having two world leaders doing the Rock Lobster on the White House lawns while bombs rained down on Gaza might not be a good look.
Labor backbenchers tell me even their rusted-on supporters are getting uncomfortable with the amount of time the Prime Minister is spending abroad.
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, seemed nothing like the imposing figure I’d imagined as his bodyguards wheeled him into a room in northern Gaza, in October, 2000.
The comparisons at first sounded too wild to deserve serious consideration. “Albo and John Howard are very similar people,” the senior Labor figure told me. I scoffed. Naturally.
Like Andrews, Jacinta Allan is a member of the Socialist Left faction, though is regarded as more moderate, more of a pragmatic centrist. And she, like Andrews, is an utterly political animal.
Australians deserve answers on what worked, what didn’t work and how we can be better prepared when the next pandemic comes along. And the way that is done shouldn’t be overtly political.
The campaign to ingrain the principles of the Uluru Statement into the Constitution has shifted from the heart to the gut. And that is turning voters away.
Reading between the lines of Catherine King’s answers yesterday, Qatar might do better to apply for a smaller increase than the effective doubling of its slots.
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