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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Reged Ahmad |Lenore Taylor |Mike Ticher |Karishma Luthria |Miles Herbert |Miles Martignoni | +1 more
Over a few hours on Saturday night we saw Labor achieve a historic win and the Coalition a comprehensive defeat. Editor Lenore Taylor and Election editor Mike Ticher join Reged Ahmad to dissect what this means.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Lenore Taylor
Predicting election results is a game for pollsters or mugs, particularly in a contest where complicated preference flows will determine the winner in many electorates. But published polls suggest a minority government is possible after 3 May. The prime minister flatly refuses to contemplate the prospect.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Lenore Taylor
In the current torrent of international news, it can seem as though Australians are living on a different planet. We read stories about how Europeans are being advised to pack a 72-hour survival pack because of the increasing threat of war, or that the US is contemplating the clearly illegal idea of routinely deporting its own citizens to be incarcerated in El Salvador. Trillions have been wiped off stock markets by tariffs that make no sense.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Bridie Jabour |Lenore Taylor |Mike Ticher |Karishma Luthria |Daniel Semo |Miles Herbert | +1 more
The unofficial election campaign is about to intensify, with a pre-election budget just days away. With political messaging coming thick and fast, both parties will be trying to sell their vision to the public. But with Australian society becoming increasingly fragmented, will the same campaign strategies cut through? Bridie Jabour talks with editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and head of newsroom Mike Ticher about what is dividing voters, and how these fractures are shaping our politics
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Lenore Taylor
I don’t often agree with Matt Canavan on matters to do with global heating. But when the senator labelled the Coalition’s nuclear plan a “political fix” last year, I think he was speaking the truth.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Bridie Jabour |Mike Ticher |Lenore Taylor |Miles Herbert |Camilla Hannan |Bertin Huynh
Acts of hate, antisemitism, as well as Islamophobia, are on the rise. For months, the Coalition has accused the Albanese government of making the country less safe for Jewish people. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has written to Anthony Albanese, calling for urgent action to tackle Islamophobia. Pre-existing dividing lines are being inflamed by our politicians, and by the media, leaving the country further polarised.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Bridie Jabour |Lenore Taylor |Patrick Keneally |Miles Herbert |Camilla Hannan |Bertin Huynh
This week, Anthony Albanese faced his first Trump test. The prime minister tried to carve out an exception for Australia from Trump’s promised 25% tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. And while Trump is giving the request ‘great consideration’, it won’t be the last time the Albanese government will be subjected to the whims of what has already been a chaotic and volatile presidency.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Bridie Jabour |Lenore Taylor |Mike Ticher |Miles Herbert |Camilla Hannan |Bertin Huynh
The perks of public office were cast into the spotlight this week after the NSW transport minister, Jo Haylen, was forced to resign. The Labor veteran used her ministerial driver as a chauffeur over the Australia day long weekend. But Hayden is not the first state or federal member of government to lose their job over the use of the public purse.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Bridie Jabour with |Mike Ticher |Lenore Taylor
For many Australians, as the cost of living continues to bite, it’s easy to feel like everything is going backwards. But are things really as bad as they seem? On many measures things are actually improving, and the sense that the world is in a time of unprecedented crisis does not always match up with the data.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Lenore Taylor
Indigenous Australians were always “fighting the wrong fight” with a voice to parliament, the former prime minister Paul Keating has said, and the failure of the referendum has now “ruined the game” for a treaty that could have properly acknowledged prior Indigenous ownership and dispossession.
