Amy Remeikis

Brisbane

Federal Political Reporter at The Guardian Australia

Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her "Closet capitalist" 🇱🇹🇦🇺 @pyjamapolitics [email protected]

Articles

Liberal party is lost in the wilderness of irrelevancy

6 days ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

Winners have parties. Losers have meetings. And there have been a lot of meetings in Canberra this week. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, than we are in for another rough three years. There are always set pieces to election wash-ups. Finger pointing. Re-writing of history. People who were silent suddenly expressing ‘long held’ concerns. Everyone knew all along what was happening, but can only express it once the votes are counted.
Australia rejected the Dutton-Murdoch agenda, now we’ll see if Labor does the same

1 week ago | australiainstitute.org.au | Amy Remeikis

We are about to see who the Australian Labor Party really is, in 2025. The Coalition is done. As far as repudiations go, it doesn’t get much more brutal than what the nation delivered on Saturday night. The worst result for the Liberal party since Menzies. Its leader turfed out of the Parliament along with most future leadership candidates.
Australia rejected the right's agenda, we'll see if Labor do the same

1 week ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

We are about to see who the Australian Labor Party really is, in 2025. The Coalition is done. As far as repudiations go, it doesn’t get much more brutal than what the nation delivered on Saturday night. The worst result for the Liberal party since Menzies. Its leader turfed out of the Parliament along with most future leadership candidates.
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1 week ago | open.substack.com | Amy Remeikis

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If the Albanese government is re-elected, it needs to do more

2 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

If the polls, the trend, and the vibe are all right, then voters are about to give the Albanese government another chance. But you can feel the reluctance. The only question that seems to remain is whether Labor will govern in its own right or as a majority. From the moment he became Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese planned on becoming the first prime minister since John Howard to be re-elected. He wants three terms.
Live with Sarah Wilson and Amy Remeikis

2 weeks ago | sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Amy Remeikis

, and many others for tuning into my live video with! I do these Live podcast chats each Tuesday…to get the alerts and join in make sure you have the Substack App downloaded:Australia is just days out from the Federal Election and I have had concerns. I am not seeing the leaders talking the big geopolitical issues of our moment and ma…
The Coalition’s campaign has now become synonymous with fiasco

2 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

“I haven’t flip-flopped. I said no originally, then I said yes, then I have said no and I’ve stuck to it!”Pauline Hanson’s 2018 ‘Schrödinger’s denial’ that she ‘flip flopped’ on supporting the Turnbull government’s proposed company tax cuts exists on the outer rim of the collective memory of Australian politics. Both known and unknown, and so humorously expected it barely rates remembering. It has, however, also been the guiding principle for how the Coalition has handled this election campaign.
Dutton is asking voters to look backward. That's the wrong question

3 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

In October 1980, before almost half the people voting in this election were born, US president Ronald Reagan posed what became one of the defining questions of modern politics:Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Reagan would go on to beat Jimmy Carter in the election that year and, along with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, usher in the neo-liberal era to western democracies. It’s been a standard in campaigns ever since.
In Europe we're being told to prepare a World War lll "survival kit". In Australia? Crickets.

1 month ago | sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Amy Remeikis

The European Commission has just told its 450 million residents to assemble a 72-hour survival kit. The kit should include matches, three days worth of food and water, a torch, a Swiss army knife, and card games (cute) etc, in preparation for the “challenges that cannot be ignored”, namely war, natural disaster, pandemics and civil unrest.
Voters lose out as Dutton implodes and Albanese coasts

1 month ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

The 2025 election Coalition campaign is now about how many seats Peter Dutton has to win in order to maintain his leadership and our national debate could not be poorer for it. The number Liberal party figures were floating late in the week was 65. That would mean winning about a dozen. At one point, maybe even as recently as January, that was a considered the minimum. At this point in the campaign, it’s a high watermark.