Books & Arts
20 March 2024
Successfully or not, Peter Dutton stands in a long line of paternalistic leaders
Books & Arts
6 February 2024
Australia’s longest-serving prime minister emerges sympathetically from the first two of a projected four-volume survey
Books & Arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
National Affairs
11 August 2023
Morrison’s fall, the teals’ rise, Labor’s victory: the editors of a new post-election book survey the 2022 campaign
Books & Arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
National Affairs
6 April 2023
Recent election results tell a story Peter Dutton doesn’t want to hear
National Affairs
3 April 2023
As its first leader warned, the Liberal Party can’t win office as the “party of reaction”
National Affairs
2 April 2023
Life has just got a lot harder for Peter Dutton
Books & Arts
1 February 2023
For a remarkable quarter-century, Tony Eggleton was the power behind the Liberal throne
National Affairs
27 January 2023
Labor is riding high across Australia, and the Greens are doing better than most observers acknowledge. Where does that leave the Coalition?
National Affairs
23 January 2023
Plenty, in fact, so the government needs to avoid getting derailed by the Voice’s critics (and some of its friends)
National Affairs
23 January 2023
Have critics overlooked what the opposition leader didn’t ask?
Essays & Reportage
2 December 2022
Beer and scuffles open The Making of an Australian Prime Minister, the classic account of the 1972 election
Essays & Reportage
2 December 2022
Doomed to defeat in 1972, did prime minister William McMahon show more initiative than he’s given credit for?
National Affairs
27 November 2022
Dan Andrews’s government has cause for celebration — and plenty on its plate
National Affairs
7 October 2022
Will Victoria’s healthcare bidding war really benefit the opening bidder?
Essays & Reportage
5 September 2022
Long forecast, the party’s grim prospects reflect an unpopular ideological narrowing
National Affairs
3 December 2021
Despite the pandemic, Labor and the Coalition are embracing policies from the past
National Affairs
22 October 2021
South Australia’s Liberals have been creating national headlines for all the wrong reasons
National Affairs
3 October 2021
The distinctive political culture of New South Wales could reach its apogee — with national effects — when Dominic Perrottet takes the top job
Essays & Reportage
29 July 2021
Marise Payne has much to contend with as foreign minister in the Morrison government
Books & Arts
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Books & Arts
4 June 2021
Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
National Affairs
14 May 2021
The former prime minister is playing an intriguing role in a closely watched by-election
National Affairs
30 April 2021
Josh Frydenberg has moved further from Coalition orthodoxy on budget deficits
National Affairs
21 April 2021
Why are Victoria’s Liberals stuck on a controversial project twice rejected at the ballot box?
National Affairs
14 April 2021
Is Scott Morrison the prime minister to win the next election?
National Affairs
31 March 2021
Will a dysfunctional party organisation in his home state block Josh Frydenberg’s path to the Lodge?
Books & Arts
19 March 2021
Books | Was this Liberal prime minister his own worst enemy?
National Affairs
12 March 2021
Faced with the outsized power of a minority within the parliamentary party, small “l” Liberals are finally getting organised