7 December 2023

The ALP and NZs U-turn on Indigenous affairs

The Voice referendum dominated the national discourse for much of this year. The result was a major setback for the government.

23 December 2022

The Liberal Party a broad church or a house divided?

The results of the ANUs 2022 Australian Election Study confirm that the Coalition was undone by the pandemic, the economy, and a highly unpopular Prime Minister. However, they also suggest that the Liberal Partys broad church is an increasingly untenable edifice.

9 October 2022

Political self-interest is killing economic ideology

Australia has a problem. In recent years Labor and the Coalition have become more focussed on the politics of economics than on economic ideology. Both are now torn between what wins elections and what they believe in.

27 July 2022

Ross Stitt: 2022 - a tipping point for preferential voting?

The rise in support for minor parties and independents may have reached a tipping point that signals trouble ahead for Labor and the Coalition under the federal preferential voting system.

26 July 2022

Peter Dutton - Liberal Party saviour or nemesis? Perhaps a Steven Bradbury!

The Liberal Partys problem is the crumbling of its liberal base. Its difficult to see how the leadership of Peter Dutton a political Steven Bradbury can fix that problem.