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Respecting the mandate is fine but you need to know what it is
What exactly is the mandate Malcolm Turnbull is seeking?
Laura Tingle writes on News specialising in Politics, Policy, Economy. Based in our Canberra newsroom, Laura has over 30 years experience as a reporter covering markets, economics and politics. Laura has won two Walkley awards and the Paul Lyneham award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism. She has been highly commended by the Walkley judges for investigative reporting.
What exactly is the mandate Malcolm Turnbull is seeking?
A two-point swing in the polls is both a movement within a poll's margin of error and, in the context of a tight election campaign, the psychological difference between winning and losing.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has expressed in-principle support for caps on election spending and donations.
The sense of weakness in the economy, and the continuing decline in incomes, lies at the heart of the economic battle of this election.
No matter what the issue is, an election campaign will always turn it into a debate about tax, writes Laura Tingle.
An MP who points out the positive latest national accounts will be thought mad, writes Laura Tingle.
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Labor has taken the sting out of government attacks over a supposed funding "black hole".
The federal election campaign descended this week in to a series of traffic accidents and slips of the tongue
The black hole debate trundles on, sucking in everything it finds along the way.
The government has destroyed its authority to critique Labor's budget numbers later.
Both sides of politics have ducked questions about whether a tax ruling that allows MPs to claim all of their second-residence costs – while...
It wouldn't be an authentic election campaign without outlandish claims of budget "black holes", writes Laura Tingle.
Labor's major promises will cost $8 billion over the next four years, raising the prospect it could leave the budget worse off in the short ...
The most interesting thing from this poll may be the answer to the question who do you think is actually going to win the election?
As the political spectrum drifted to the Left, boats largely sunk the week for the PM, writes Laura Tingle.
Labor has raised the spectre of imposing a domestic gas quota on future LNG projects.
What a relief to hear two leaders having a civilised and detailed discussion about policy issues, not engaging in dull slogans and simply at...
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