Can Dutton do it?

Can Peter Dutton flip Labor voters to rewrite electoral history and unseat a first term government?

Will Albanese hang on?

The Albanese government has a fighting chance of winning the 2025 election, but will need to achieve in five weeks of campaigning what it hasn’t in three years in office.

They’re off!

After weeks of speculation and false starts, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called for a general election on the 3rd of May, with the cost of living shaping to be the central battleground

New kids on the block

Gen Z and other relatively young Australians who feel they owe little to major parties are an unpredictable voting force heading into the 2025 federal election.

Back to the future

The left leaning votes of women and young people helped swing the last Federal election to Labor, so will this trend continue this time around?

Albanese hits the campaign trail

Anthony Albanese has hit the campaign trail ahead of the forthcoming Federal election, although the election date has not been announced and no sitting Prime Minister has won re-election since John Howard.

A reader’s guide to the US election

Understanding the 2024 election isn’t easy, given the withdrawl of the sitting President and Donald Trump’s promise that if he wins in November, Americans will never have to vote again, so what are the best books and podcasts to make sense of it all?

Biden leaves the stage

Given mounting concern about his prospects of re-election, Joe Biden has withdrawn his candidacy and urged Democrats to back Vice-President Kamala Harris instead.

Should Biden bow out?

Despite his bombastic attempt to overthrow American democracy and a string of criminal convictions, Donald Trump is proving a strong challenger to Joe Biden, so should the ageing President bow out of the campaign?

A history of violence

Political assassination attempts are nothing new, and the bullet which almost took Donald Trump’s life could prove a turning point in the American election.

How the media lost the election

While the Murdoch press campaigned stridently for Morrison, the rest of the media failed to cover the election properly, focusing on meaningless photo-ops with the leaders rather than the issues they didn’t want to talk about – such as climate change, integrity, local concerns and women’s issues.

What now for the Liberal party?

The brash qualities, political nous and single minded aggression which won Scott Morrison his ‘miracle’ victory in 2019 proved liabilities in 2022, and he leaves a party which has abandoned its heartland seats and moral core.