Poll
Anne Summers
It's a woman's right to choose, not a man's to try to control
Anne Summers If Tony Abbott was hoping he could tiptoe to an election win without having to take a stand on abortion, he was wrong.
Marginal difference in national sphere
Michael Gordon Ted Baillieu's shock resignation is a morale boost for Labor in Victoria that has few implications for the federal election that Julia Gillard has called for September 14.
Last stand at Rooty Hill or can Gillard find a way to win the west?
Jacqueline Maley The diverse communities of western Sydney hold the key to the election.
Indonesia's democracy at a crossroads
Peter Hartcher Indonesia is hailed as an outstanding success story of the modern world. Suharto's military dictatorship transformed into a vibrant democracy; it's a Muslim-majority country where the extremists are...
Free-for-all on foreigners as leaders chase votes
Katharine Murphy So that's where we are. We need to ''stop foreign workers being put at the front of the queue''. We need ''behavioural protocols'' for ''illegals'' so we all know whether undesirables are lurking...
Anne Summers
PM's critics make a mockery of political debate
Anne Summers On Q&A last Monday night Malcolm Turnbull described how it felt when he lost the Liberal Party leadership in December 2009. It was "very, very gut-wrenching, it was devastating", he said.
Hating Kevin, loving the saviour
Peter Hartcher If you haven't already seen the Liberal Party's new anti-Rudd attack ad on YouTube, you need to know that it is a staccato collation of soundgrabs of the Gillard government's damnations of Kevin.
Anne Summers
It's a woman's right to choose
Anne Summers If Tony Abbott was hoping he could tiptoe to an election win without having to take a stand on abortion, he was wrong.
Gillard an ineffectual campaigner
Peter Hartcher Julia Gillard has spent the past month campaigning energetically as she approaches the election. What difference has it made to Labor's standing with the people? None, according to Monday's Nielsen...
Paul Strangio
It's getting tougher at the top in a judgmental electorate
Paul Strangio Before the unfortunate Ted Baillieu, the last Victorian premier to fall on his sword was John Cain in August 1990.
Michael Gordon
Worlds apart, but the pain's the same when the axe falls
Michael Gordon Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott agree on something. There are no parallels between the political assassination of Kevin Rudd in 2010 and Ted Baillieu's decision to fall on his sword this week.
Analysis
No time for Napthine to smell roses
Josh Gordon Denis Napthine might take a measure of comfort knowing that voters have - more or less - backed his party's decision to make him leader.
Analysis
Get the message?
Peter Hartcher Would it help if a skywriter blazed the message in huge letters across the Canberra skies?
Money makes debate go round
Mark Kenny While much of the world reeled from the banking and related property sector meltdown in 2008-09, swift stimulatory action in Australia, and our good fortune in being a major commodity supplier to...
Clear message from the west is that Rudd is the only hope
Peter Hartcher Would it help if a skywriter blazed the message in huge white letters across the Canberra skies?
Odds shorten on PM's little mate
Paul Sheehan The media's obsession with Kevin Rudd may be missing the point. Shorten may be the better bet.
Judith Ireland
Polls apart: Gillard gets taste of good, bad, ugly
Judith Ireland You can picture the scene. A new day has just dawned in the national capital. The Prime Minister has barely opened an eye - not even had time for a cup of tea - as an adviser hovers nervously: ''PM,...
The media must embrace reform to survive
Katharine Murphy Should we be surprised when it comes to media reform that most of the protagonists are working an angle?
On the QT
Indiana Gillard gets out of tight spot
Judith Ireland You don't need a PhD in political genius to know federal Labor is in a special kind of trouble right now.
Hard slog for PM to get Labor back into the game
Michael Gordon It is a measure of Labor's predicament that the good news for the government in the latest Age/Nielsen poll is that Julia Gillard's - and the party's - standing did not take another hit after yet...
