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Gluing the bench back together
Michelle Grattan | May 25, 2025The fall-out from the Liberals-Nationals split and potential reconciliation continues as David Littleproud and Sussan Ley jockey for supremacy and policy control.
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The end of the affair
Linda Botterill | May 21, 2025The Nationals have pulled out of their long-standing coalition agreement with the Liberals in a potentially historic schism on the right-side of Australian politics.
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Ley, Lady Ley
Blair Williams | May 20, 2025The Liberal’s election of a moderate woman as leader signals a shift back toward the centre-right as well as increasing their appeal to female swing voters.
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A long road back for the Liberals
Frank Bongiorno | May 15, 2025Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss but the Liberals will need to think differently to take power again.
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The Liberals turn to Ley
Michelle Grattan | May 14, 2025Sussan Ley added an “s” to her name as a joke when she was young, and has now added the leadership of the Liberal party to her list of accomplishments.
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The strange death of Liberal Australia
Frank Bongiorno | October 11, 2022The Liberals’ weakness in Canberra is self-evident and, especially at the state level, part of a long-term change in the country’s electoral politics.