At the 2025 federal election, the Albanese Labor Government won over 55% of the two-party preferred vote. The two-party preferred vote, called 2PP, measures whether Australians preferred their Labor candidate or their Liberal–National Coalition candidate. 55% of the 2PP is the party’s best result since 1943. This high 2PP vote disguises a relatively low first-preference

Nearly a quarter of all seats in the federal parliament are now “non-classic” seats, where first and second is no longer a fight between the two major parties.

While the May election result was remarkable for the low vote share going to the major parties, it was just the most recent of a very long trend.

The Government’s Safeguard Mechanism is supposed to limit emissions; instead, it just lets companies cheat.

The debate over the superannuation changes are dominated by lies and exaggerations, so let’s set the record straight.

A large crossbench might seem unusual, but before WWII they were commonplace in Australia.

The arguments against the government’s changes to the taxation of superannuation are nothing more than lies and fear.

Book prices haven’t increased with inflation – good for readers; terrible for writers and publishers.

The Tasmanian salmon industry is one where the revenue earned keeps going up while the tax paid falls to zero.

Retail trade in the first 3 months of this year makes it clear the RBA should have cut rates in April.

University is expensive and many are falling behind.

Junior rates make life harder for young Australians than it should be.

The debate on defence ignores that Australia already spends more than it should.

For most people in Sydney – if you had started saving for a house a decade ago, you would be further away from your goal.

Migration is not to blame for house prices rising. And neither are Australia’s borders out of control.

The amount committed by both political parties to preventing domestic and family violence suggests they believe there are other, more important, priorities.

When one company exports more than is consumed in NSW, Victoria and South Australia combined, there is clearly no gas shortage.

The announced funds are an exercise in dodgy budgeting and do nothing to properly tax Australia’s mining and gas companies.

Australia’s beleaguered university sector is never far from the headlines these days. Former Labor leader and current University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten probably doesn’t envy his former ministerial colleagues who are currently on the campaign trail, but nonetheless, he’s in the news today. The Canberra Times reports that Shorten is announcing a new voluntary

Right now, the government and the opposition are moving to increase the amount the government spends on its military aka its defence budget, and this is happening without the public having any say – nor any great choice in the upcoming election.

Halving the fuel excise is bad for the environment and for most Australians won’t deliver the cost-of-living benefits that are being spruiked.

The changes to industrial relations show that bold policy delivers good outcomes.

In 2023-24 tax from the PRRT was less than an quarter the amount raised by HECS/HELP debts repayments.