The numbers from the 2025 election are not yet final — as I write this, the AEC has counted just over 75 per cent of votes — but we do know that the pollsters’ figures all fell on the right side of ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

The reason for this apparent incongruity must lie in the “OTH” group, and particularly the absence of Clive Palmer’s UAP ...

The Nightly piece does, however, posit a much more realistic 75 per cent flow from far-right parties. But while it rightly points out that One Nation’s polling numbers have greatly improved, it ...

National affairs Queensland to the rescue? Peter Brent 7 February 2025 History suggests Labor’s state election loss in the Sunshine State last October might — just might — work in Anthony Albanese’s ...

Among Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s lecturing duties in Melbourne University’s history department, where she worked from 1938 to 1962, was a first-year course concerned mainly with the England of the ...

Essays & reportage White lies, archival truths and R.J.L. Hawke Michael Piggott 17 October 2024 What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond ...

The recurring themes of early news photography are all there — people engaged in ordinary tasks, working hard, building ...