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As Labor goes through the painful process of examining what went wrong at this year’s election and how it might win the next, there are 10 key lessons to be learnt.
Morrison’s new team mixes stability with dashes of innovation, box ticking, and the rewarding of friends.
The new charges are much more serious than the computer misuse charge in the initial US extradition request. Will the Australian government intervene?
In an interview with The Conversation, Frydenberg refused to be drawn on what the government would do if unable to get the whole bill through.
If Boris Johnson becomes PM, the most likely outcome is a no-deal Brexit leavened with the rhetoric of past and future glories of the UK. There are better candidates for the job.
Geoff Crisp speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics.
With the AFL’s indigenous round about to take place, it’s important to recognise the full history of Indigenous involvement in the sport, including the many obstacles players faced.
Successful policy accomplishments are rarely considered newsworthy, but there are plenty of cases where government policy has improved our lives for the better.
Escalating tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir border are a stark reminder that the subcontinent is one of the world’s likeliest nuclear flashpoints.
Labor needs to better tune into middle suburbia, yet it can’t afford to turn its back on the issues that concern its more progressive supporters. It will be a tricky balancing act.
Modi has been given an overwhelming mandate to continue his reform agenda in India, but he faces many challenges in his second term as prime minister.
Policies aimed at reducing youth suicide will fail if they don’t acknowledge the cumulative effects of history, associated intergenerational trauma and ongoing violence towards Indigenous Australians.
While polls have been patchy for some years, analysis shows they have been particularly out of whack since Morrison became prime minister.
Labor supporters despairing of the result of Saturday’s election would do well to recall 2004 – it’s the closest parallel with what we have just seen.
Jim Chalmers, from the right of the Labor party, has been receiving support from those who believe the party needs generational change.
New data published by the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council show that prison sentences for sex offences are getting longer in the state, and will probably continue to increase.
Queensland has a proud place in Labor history. But the 2019 election shows the federal Labor Party no longer understands the issues that matter to Queensland voters.
Many trafficked victims are female. But what happens when the perpetrator is also female, and was once a victim herself?
New Zealand’s terrorism law has never been prosecuted successfully since it was enacted nearly 20 years ago. So, why are prosecutors bringing a terrorism charge against the Christchurch shooter?
This election showed that Australia is stuck with an increasingly polarised media, a highly concentrated media ownership landscape and no apparent way to do anything about it.
Witnessing violent media reporting about women politicians can deter women from entering politics at a time when we should be striving toward gender parity.
The leadership will be decided by ballots of the party membership and the caucus, with a 50-50 weighting.
The first great power rivalry of the 21st century has begun – and it’s unlike any rivalry the world has ever seen.
You could compare election opinion polls to penalty shoot-outs at a World Cup final: there’s huge pressure to get it right and we remember the big misses most of all.