By Denis Bright Renee Coffey MP triumphed in Brisbane’s Southside electorate in a tight contest with the sitting Green’s Member Max Chandler Mather. Both progressive candidates had their appeal in different parts of the […]
Last Saturday, May 23, l wrote a piece about the future of the Liberal and National parties. After I had posted it, I had to revise it in light of the very public divorce that […]
Post 2025 Election – A Coalition of Convenience, A Party Without Principle By Sue Barrett The Liberal Party of Australia’s 2025 federal election campaign was a historic low, yielding their worst-ever result and exposing a […]
The Australian political landscape has served up a dish of irony so rich it could headline a satire festival. Jacinta Price, the Northern Territory senator who defected from the Nationals to the Liberal Party after […]
The Goldstein race was one of the closest in the 2025 election. Liberal candidate Tim Wilson reclaimed the seat, defeating the incumbent teal independent MP Zoe Daniel, who had won the seat from Wilson in […]
In the aftermath of the election, I noticed a lot of comments from people in the parties that used to be known as the Coalition about the need to keep fighting. Stupidly, I presumed that […]
The recent split between coalition partners, the Liberals and the Nationals, and the ensuing war of words, wasn’t entirely unexpected given their storied history of tension. Kaye Lee’s August 2022 article, republished below, highlights this […]
More from the series of political futures series from Denis Bright As a response to the crisis in Australia’s conservative leadership, high profile commentators have called for the return of enhanced policy fusions between the […]
What does one do with a political party ruthlessly knocked down after receiving a devastating blow from its rival? Out for the count was no exaggeration. The first rule of politics is to gain power. […]
Scene: A counsellor’s office. Counsellor – I’d like to welcome you both and start by saying that this is a great first step… David – I’d like to point out that this was her idea. […]
By Jim McIntosh Peter Dutton, the former opposition leader, frequently claimed a so-called ‘coalition’ existed between Labor and The Greens. This assertion is ironic, given his own Liberal Party’s long-standing alliance with the National […]
Now General Sedgwick can rest easy in his grave. His famous last words were: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”. However, after the landslide Labor win, Peter Dutton’s assertion that they were the […]
By Denis Bright Despite the absence of my favourite Swedish pear cider, I was almost compelled to prepare a short article after watching Michael Porttillo’s Long Weekend in Stockholm on SBS Television (19 May […]
Monash University Media Release Speaking on the split between the Liberals and Nationals Dr Zareh Ghazarian, Head of Politics and International Relations Discipline, Monash School of Social Sciences says that: “In effect, the dissolution of […]
The drama is heating up with the Goldstein seat turning into quite the rollercoaster. Tim Wilson, who confidently declared victory over teal independent Zoe Daniel after a tight count, is now sweating as postal votes […]
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