Our working lives are about to change. Time,and the PM,will tell if we’re better off

The Albanese government showed it is willing to redistribute money. Will it take on the task of redistributing time as well?

  • Sean Kelly

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A GetUp protest interrupted Pauline Hanson’s speech at the National Press Club last week.

Help or hindrance? GetUp’s gamble on fighting One Nation

Dismissed by critics as a mere stunt,the activist group’s viral prank has galvanised its network for a long-term campaign against Pauline Hanson’s party.

  • Rob Harris
Pauline Hanson is due to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference next week.

If Hanson fades,this four-week stretch will be remembered for the mistakes that brought her down

Hardline comments on childcare,abortion and wages are still reverberating online and in community forums,according to major party hardheads tracking public sentiment.

  • Paul Sakkal

PM got Bushie-whacked,but it’s daft to ask a powerful man to objectify real women

Cliches may create controversy,but they’re also boring.

  • Julia Baird
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie.

Andrew Hastie signs book deal to set out political convictions

The MP for Canning updated his register of interests on Friday to disclose payments relating to a writing project from publisher Allen& Unwin.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Peter Beattie,Gladys Berejiklian and Steve Bracks

Some of Australia’s most successful leaders never made it to Canberra. Oh,what might have been

Maybe a Beattie,a Berejiklian or a Bracks could have been an Australian Andy Burnham. We’ll never know.

  • Nick Bryant
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‘Eternity of pain’:Angus Taylor’s clearest attack on Pauline Hanson

A keynote speech from the Coalition leader comes as Hanson appears on a podcast with Tommy Robinson,whose appearance with Karl Stefanovic led to the broadcaster’s departure from Nine.

  • Paul Sakkal

The right-wing media is carrying the Liberal Party to its death

Unfortunately for media outlets prosecuting the case against the budget and the government with relentless vigour,the signs that their efforts are bearing fruit are somewhere between microscopic and non-existent.

  • Shaun Carney
NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane says anyone who votes for One Nation in the March 2026 state election will be helping to re-elect Labor.

Kellie Sloane came in to tidy up the NSW Libs. She’s going to need a bigger broom

The NSW Liberal Party was already facing a mammoth task in the forthcoming state election. Then along came the ICAC’s Operation Rosny.

  • Michael McGowan
Nigel Farage and Pauline Hanson

Farage scandal is a warning for Hanson – and a chance for the Coalition

Pauline Hanson was set to meet the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in London this week. The scandal engulfing him has some lessons for Australian politics.

  • Paul Sakkal