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Fairfax Ipsos gives Labor another win on two-party preferred, albeit with weird primary vote numbers, while the Labor party in Victoria has another poll win just over two months ahead of the state election.
Politics podcast: Wayne Swan on Labor’s byelection victories and beyond.
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Incoming national president and outgoing MP Wayne Swan dismissed the notion that party reform is on that agenda saying there "is no issue ... my priority is winning the battle of ideas.”
History warns us to beware of the fickleness of polls taken mid-term, which tend to be a snapshot rather than a deep reading of the electoral mood.
'Super Saturday' had positive spin-offs for both federal leaders, but substantially more for Bill Shorten than Malcolm Turnbull.
The failure to wrest Batman is a big setback for the Greens.
The reality is that Bill Shorten is, in many ways, a garden-variety centre-left leader.
The Liberals went from a losing position in Tasmanian polls months ago to a comfortable victory on election day.
Labor’s pledge injects much-needed funds into education research, but it problematically evokes a biomedical model of research and teaching practice.
A new ABC documentary presents a nostalgic but compelling overview of one of Australia's most successful prime ministers.
Even with the most favourable laws, unions will still need to confront the reality of a dramatic transformation in the world of work.
We are paying more for our health insurance because we are using it more. No crude, short-term measures to restrict premium growth will deal with this fact.
The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
Setting targets is one way to attain more female MPs, but it must be accompanied by cultural change.
While both parties may have set out to modernise and renew their ideologies, the ALP's and Labour’s attempts to marry the old and new instead precipitated two separate identity crises.
In a nation labelled secular, many of our elected representatives have strong religious ties, and this affects they way they the country is run.
If we ban all donations from individuals and corporations, funding for political campaigns must come from elsewhere.
For Bill Shorten, cuts to Sunday penalty rates could become a pale version of WorkChoices.
Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention…
Here's why Labor’s figure for school funding is too high.
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