A new government tactic to avoid scrutiny just dropped Some advice for public servants ahead of budget estimates. The Canberra Times · May 24
Who is Angus Taylor and could he cut it as opposition leader? Angus Taylor has all the on-paper qualifications to be opposition leader. But there are big questions over how well he could do the job, when a miracle worker is needed to lift the struggling Liberal Party from its existential crisis. The Conversation · Feb 11
The Coalition has a much-needed chance to hold Labor to account – if they can stop talking about themselves With the Coalition rift ostensibly patched up, a strong week grilling the government could buy Sussan Ley more time. But Angus Taylor has yet to declare his hand The Guardian - AU · Feb 8
One Nation surges into second place in two polls, but Labor remains well ahead after preferences Five federal polls have been released in the last week, with three of them having some fieldwork after the Coalition split on January 22. One Nation is in second place on primary votes in the YouGov and DemosAU polls, leading the Coalition by five points in YouGov and three points… The Conversation · Jan 28
Grattan on Friday: could the Liberals make a fight of industrial relations without courting disaster? It’s near-universally agreed that opposition policy development under Peter Dutton was too thin and too late. Now the Sussan Ley opposition is under pressure to produce policy that could arguably be premature. The Conversation · Dec 4, 2025
Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal Come dance with me! That was Environment Minister Murray Watt’s invitation to the opposition as he prepared to push through his reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The Conversation · Nov 27, 2025
View from The Hill: fractured Liberals drown net zero and themselves in a torrent of verbiage Here is a statistic that tells you what a self-defeating funk the federal opposition is in. On Monday alone, as it wallowed in the crisis over energy policy, its parliamentarians indulged in more than 35 media appearances. The Conversation · Nov 4, 2025
Labor retains big lead in Newspoll and all other federal polls Labor retains a large lead in three new national polls including Newspoll, while many more voters thought Labor’s 2035 emissions reduction target too ambitious rather than not ambitious enough. The Conversation · Oct 5, 2025
Afternoon Update: Trump blames ‘radical left’ for Kirk shooting; Ley apologises to Indian Australians; and Queensland’s historic AFL final Australian leaders condemn killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with the deputy PM saying there is no place for political violence The Guardian - AU · Sep 11, 2025