The secret poll that showed Turnbull would win the election
A big, concealed source of Liberal reassurance was a key finding about the intentions of voters.
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Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a Gold Walkley award winner, a former foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Washington, and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His latest book is The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away. His 2005 book, Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing Seven Trillion Dollars, foresaw the collapse of the US housing market and the economic slump that followed.
Australia can't afford to be smug about America's problems
Last week, we saw the convergence of three of America's great unsolved problems. But Australia isn't immune.
Turnbull's life-or-death juggling act
There's a high degree of difficulty, but a diminished Malcolm Turnbull still represents Australia’s best shot.
Does Australia even need a government?
Look around in Australia on the first business day after the country was supposedly rendered "ungovernable" by Saturday's election. On Monday the share market was up and so was the Australian dollar.
Two messages drew blood in the campaign
The underlying struggle was for the Liberals to build public trust in Turnbull, and for Labor to damage it.
The world is in danger of forgetting its history
The world is in danger of forgetting its history. We've seen this pattern before and it didn't end well.
Why Shorten still owes the unions
Would Bill Shorten be more than a handmaiden of the union movement as PM? So far, the omens are poor.
We cannot afford to follow the haters
It would be a dire mistake for Australia to import the anger, fear and hatred that's now running amok among our civilisational cousins.
Nick Xenophon is political enemy number one
He's unconventional, and so is his relationship with his onetime wife.
Why Turnbull says China won't get what it wants
The strategic pressures that threaten Australia's main commercial artery continue to build.
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