Election 2016: Comment & Analysis
Medi-scare and porous borders: who not to believe?
Mark Kenny 8:31 PM Daily, the bitter 2016 race is putting a new twist on a familiar saying: You made this election, so feel free to lie in it. Of course, the use of the word "lie" here has a darker meaning than mere repose. And lying, quite frankly, is what both sides seem to be doing with reckless abandon about each other's intentions.
Same-sex marriage re-enters election campaign
Liz van Acker 6:51 PM Marriage equality has been ushered under the election spotlight in recent days.
You've been told Labor can't win - but they can
Mark Kenny 4:17 PM If Bill Shorten wins, many will be forced to admit that the signs of a public shift had been wilfully ignored.
Breakthrough breast cancer find
Latika Bourke 4:47 AM Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Malcolm gets by with help from Howard, Jones
Michael Gordon 7:18 AM Malcolm Turnbull more than held his own on Q&A; by channelling his inner John Howard, intimidating Tony Jones and passing the buck on the issue of marriage equality.
Hopelessness of life on Nauru is painfully clear
Michael Gordon 7:38 AM "They are certainly living better than the Nauruans, I would say," David Adeang asserted on A Current Affair's exclusive report on Nauru.
Beached as: Labor and Coalition ignore the big issues
Nicholas Stuart 12:00 AM There was a startling development at last week's Defence debate at the National Press Club.
How the federal government is already privatising Medicare
Jenna Price 11:19 AM I love it when I get a phone call from a pollster. I have things to say and people to whom I want to say them. When I say people, I mean politicians.
Brexit campaigning resumes as Nigel Farage's Breaking Point poster is likened to Nazi propaganda
Latika Bourke Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Shorten's three-quarter time address
Michael Gordon It wasn't so much a campaign launch as a coach's three-quarter-time address, imploring a team written off for most of the season to believe that a famous victory is within its grasp.
Shorten cannot be all things to all people
Peter Hartcher Bill Shorten began the Labor leadership as a Faceless Man, but he has now completed the shift to become Everyman.
Shorten's best shot, but will it be enough?
Mark Kenny Labor does better stories, has better stories, believes better stories. Even when they're only partly true.
Rudd gets short shrift from Shorten in roll call of leaders
Tony Wright Bill Shorten's ambition to be the next Labor Prime Minister requires the honouring of the last. It is the mark of our age that such a ritual has been awkward for quite some years now.
Liberals are already dividing the spoils
Mark Kenny The polls point to a narrow Coalition victory but either side could yet crash and burn.
Nick Xenophon is political enemy number one
Peter Hartcher He's unconventional, and so is his relationship with his onetime wife.
Even the best-case scenario a worry for Turnbull
Michael Gordon Two weeks out from polling day, the latest Fairfax Ipsos Election Poll suggests three possible outcomes that were not anticipated by Liberal MPs when they installed Malcolm Turnbull as leader last September.
Labor cannot pop champagne corks
Mark Kenny At first blush, Labor will be delighted to be favoured in the polls within a fortnight of polling day. Who would not want to lead at this late stage?
How Shorten is managing to outflank Turnbull
Jack Waterford Bill Shorten appears to have grown in stature during the election campaign. Malcolm Turnbull seems diminished.
British MP shot and killed while meeting constituents
Latika Bourke Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Xenophon has foisted upon us a dishonest Senate system
Malcolm Mackerras Senator Nick Xenophon, The Greens and the Turnbull Liberals presently occupy the same political sewer. That's a challenging statement – so let me justify it.
Trump to meet NRA in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting
Latika Bourke Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Behind the battlelines there's surprising agreement on climate change
Peter Martin Every so often elections matter. The last one mattered big-time for carbon emissions.
Broadband bravado: NBN does it again
Mark Kenny It was a typically aggressive denial which didn't disprove the original insult so much as compound it.
Obama rips into Trump over Muslim immigration ban
Latika Bourke Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Orlando gunman was a 'homegrown' terrorist
Latika Bourke Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Why Turnbull is right about the Greens
Peter Reith However important the minor parties may think they are, the truth is that they remain minnows.
Young voters should form their own party
Liam Lenten With the election campaign now into its second half, it is apparent there will be little in the offering for younger voters.
Sputtering towards more of the same
Mark Kenny If Malcolm Turnbull wins the election he will claim his big gamble was brilliant. But that would be spin.
'Act of terror, act of hate' Obama condemns Orlando mass shooting
Latika Bourke Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
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