Political

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.

BEN HARVEY: The RBA is supposed to be an economic Terminator, it can’t be bargained with and can’t be reasoned with.

HAYDEN NELSON: Locals may be toasting South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas as the man who pulled the steel town from the brink, but there is still a long hard road ahead for the Whyalla steelworks.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is winning the perception race as a stronger leader, but who has the coveted position of the political underdog ahead of the election? A leading body language expert explains.

ANDREW CARSWELL: With three words, Peter Dutton threw caution to the wind and revealed the Coalition’s bold election tactic - but I wouldn’t write him off just yet.

CAMERON MILNER: Albo can’t blame his polling free fall on misinformation and disinformation spread by political enemies when it’s the truth of his deeds that has voters wanting to see him gone.