Political

JENI O’DOWD: The Albanese Government is doing everything it can to pretend things are under control. But voters aren’t stupid. They know exactly what’s going on — and they aren’t buying it.

ANDREW CARSWELL: If you’ve already locked in your vote for the 2025 Federal election, brace yourself for some bad news. Others will be deciding the final outcome on election night.

KATE EMERY: Happiness is the thing everyone wants, too few of us have and that Australian politicians so rarely mention. Maybe it’s time to change that.

KATINA CURTIS: A more proportional split in grants allocations than the Coalition’s egregious pork-barrelling doesn’t mean Labor’s cash splash shouldn’t be scrutinised.

AARON PATRICK: Victoria has finally decided to act, but evidence that the CFMEU is rapacious, amoral and unreformable has persisted for decades.

MARK RILEY: Who can best manage Australia’s relationship with Donald Trump will be the key foreign policy question in the coming election campaign. 

ELLEN RANSLEY: Standing up to the ‘bully’ and making the case that a surplus was in Washington’s interests may have worked for Turnbull in 2018, but Trump is determined to be far more ruthless this time.

CAMERON MILNER: Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have both had shockers in the past few weeks. But it’s a behind-the-scenes stoush that will really determine the outcome of the Federal election.

BEN HARVEY: Every politician in Australia will be eyeing the WA election on Saturday, and not because they’re interested in who wins.

MARK HUMPHERY-JENNER: At first glance, the economy looks rosy. It looks like unemployment is low, GDP is growing, and there have been surpluses. However, if you scratch beneath the surface, it is not so pretty.

KATINA CURTIS: I’m just a voter standing in front of a politician asking for some new policy options.

OPINION: What happened in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was something that has never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country.

CAMERON MILNER: There’s a time and place for negative attack ads and messages in every political campaign, but Labor’s desperate attack on Peter Dutton is doomed to fail.

Fatima Payman’s Iranian endorsement lets down millions of Muslim women who live under theocracies that arrest and sometimes murder women who chose not to wear the hijab.

While commentators watch the tumbling polls for Albo, Labor’s next leadership hopefuls are prowling the savannah, positioning for the inevitable ALP leadership challenge that’s to come.