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How the ‘reality-distorting machinery’ of the election campaign delivered sub-par journalism

'Reality-distorting machinery': The nightly television news coverage of the 2022 federal election was among the most juvenile and uninformative in 50 years.

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How the 'reality-distorting machinery' of the federal election campaign delivered sub-par journalism

The nightly television news coverage of the 2022 federal election was among the most juvenile and uninformative in 50 years.

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Wages and women top Albanese's IR agenda: the big question is how Labor keeps its promises

Industrial relations issues were front and centre when federal Labor last won office from opposition in 2007. The backlash against John Howard’s “Work Choices” reforms cost both his government and his own seat. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s detailed “Forward with Fairness” policy provided a blueprint for the Fair Work…

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Hang On, Exactly How Much Are We Paying Ex-PM Morrison Now He’s Been Booted Out?

Buy your bucket and fill it too.

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Federal election: Labor two seats away from majority as counting continues — as it happened

Labor edges closer to an outright majority in the lower house with projected victory in the seat of Richmond, taking the party's tally to 74.

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Did Australia just make a move to the left?

Political commentators often use the idea of a political spectrum from left to right as shorthand for understanding political ideologies, parties and programs. Derived from the arrangement of the National Assembly in the French Revolution, it has been a remarkably resilient form of political shorthand.

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Labor's Jerome Laxale snatches Liberal stronghold seat of Bennelong

The Labor Party claims the Liberal stronghold seat of Bennelong in Sydney's north shore with a significant swing.

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A new dawn over stormy seas: how Labor should manage the economy

Labor has inherited an economy with a pretty full “head of steam”.

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Alan Kohler: This was Julia Gillard’s election victory

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

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Stoking fear and hatred held the Coalition in power – finally Australia had enough

For the first time in a decade the logjam to change the country’s politics may be shifting

The Guardian - AU

‘Definitely difficult’: Liberal Party suffers crushing election defeat

Liberal faithfuls watched on with blank disbelief as their leader Scott Morrison conceded the end of a decade-long Coalition reign.

The New Daily

Labor, Anthony Albanese make history with 2022 federal election victory

The Labor Party has made history with their 2022 federal election win, securing more seats than the Coalition for the first time in 15 years.

ABC News

Following Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese around Australia in 2022 federal election campaign

Six weeks of campaigning. Six weeks of images. While some could argue there was a lack of policy ideas in the 2022 election campaign, there were plenty of photo opportunities.

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Morrison’s whistle-stops span the nation, but five MPs were left to fight their own battles

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conspicuous absence from five battleground seats has underscored his greatest challenge this election.

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Morrison first recent Australian leader to survive 3 years

Scott Morrison has become the most successful Australian prime minister in years just by standing for reelection on Saturday

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Julia Banks: We can’t take another three years of same old, same old

Rather than having to “stick it out” with the same leadership for another three years, our nation needs to breathe a sigh of relief.

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Madonna King: We deserve more from our leaders than a tussle between two brands of timid

Whichever of our leaders takes the Treasury benches tomorrow night, they need to wake up on Sunday morning and abandon the small-target approach.

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Morrison is hoping for an election surprise but 'uncommitted' voters rarely turn things around in the final week

The number of voters the Coalition is attempting to sway in the final days of the campaign varies widely, depending on how the targeted voters are defined. But the historical precedent for success to which commentators refer isn’t persuasive.

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Exhumed Corpse John Howard Is Sending Aussies Voicemails Like Some Wicked Call From The Dead

"HellOoOoOo it's JoOoOoOohn HoOoOoOoward."

The Guardian - AU

‘Hello it’s John Howard calling’: former PM says Liberal party asked him to ‘campaign extensively’

The current prime minister is unpopular in city marginal seats, so the Coalition is banking on robocalls and letterbox drops from Howard to sway voters

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The Coalition says Labor has a plan to introduce a 'sneaky carbon tax'. Is there any evidence?

The Coalition has been running a campaign to convince you that Labor plans to introduce a 'sneaky carbon tax'. But is there any evidence to their claims, or is it just a scare campaign?

The Conversation

State of the states: six politics experts take us around Australia in the final week of the campaign

In the first week of the campaign, we journeyed around the country with six politics experts to examine the key seats and issues affecting different parts of the Australia.

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The flinty pragmatist who will now be Aussie PM

He's set to be the next Australian Prime Minister. So who is Anthony Albanese? Paul Strangio, Professor of Politics at Monash University, profiles a man on the cusp of history.

The Guardian - AU

Five housing policies that wouldn’t drive up prices in Australia

If reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax are a bridge too far, how about tackling supply?

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‘His beating heart is a focus group’ - What makes Morrison tick

Veteran Australian political writer Michelle Grattan weighs the factors ranged against PM Scott Morrison winning again in the election this Saturday

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