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Peter Dutton could lose his seat if there’s a decent two-party-preferred swing to Labor, say 2.5 per cent or more, in ...
He assumes viewers have a basic awareness that Riefenstahl directed Triumph of the Will, the account of the Nazi party’s 1934 Nuremberg congress that begins with the figure of Hitler descending as if ...
Kleinhenz concludes her biography with the strange observation that not a great deal survives of Kathleen’s work as a research historian and writer. And yet Kathleen had published steadily throughout ...
Coalition insiders say supporters of small right-wing parties will overwhelmingly preference the Libs and the Nats. They’re wrong ...
Canada’s Liberals enter the final week of the election campaign with plenty of help from south of the border Four months ago the Liberal Party of Canada looked headed for disaster. After nine years in ...
America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF ...
Another big-time loser “Andrew,” says “the devil is in your hand” — a reference to his mobile phone. “There have always been Americans driven to ruin by gambling,” writes Cohen. “But never have so ...
The latest YouGov poll (11–15 April) has Labor on 53 per cent of the two-party vote, the latest Resolve poll (9–13 April) has Labor on 53.5 per cent, and the latest Morgan poll (7–13 April) has Labor ...
It’s accepted wisdom that incumbency counts in individual seats and forfeiting it has a cost. What’s less easy to quantify is precisely how much of a retiring MP’s margin is personal and exits with ...