Anthony Albanese’s assessment that Labor’s management of inflation has been going according to a grand plan is political illusion that attempts to conjure optimism from the depths of household pain.

Labor is acutely aware of which headlines will hinder or help as we head into an election campaign while new polling reveals which electorates will be most vulnerable to change on polling day.

Even our lamb ads portray a fraying of national cohesion. From antisemitic terror to political polarisation, we’re not as relaxed as we like to imagine.

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A man accused of hurling antisemitic comments and abuse at a Canberra political organisation has been charged after he was tracked down in a coastal Victorian town. The 64-year-old man ...

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Political parties missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations in the last financial year as a crackdown on powerful consulting firms continued. Miriam Webber is a federal politics ...

Gender equality will become central to Australia's foreign policy, diplomacy, trade and aid programmers under a new ...

A Victoria man was charged Wednesday for calling a Canberra political organization office and making antisemitic comments, the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police announced in a joint ...

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell claims the expectation in Canberra is that there’ll be “no budget and an April ...

Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast. He writes a column every Sunday. Mark Kenny ...

Ms George sued the network in 2022 under the Fair Work Act, claiming the “toxic” culture at Ten’s Canberra bureau had reduced her “standing and reputation” as a journalist. The matter ...