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Shaun Carney

Shaun Carney

Shaun Carney is a regular columnist, an author and former associate editor of The Age.

Reality is coming fast for Angus Taylor. The next step for the Liberals is extinction

When a majority of voters have considered the Coalition, they’ve found it difficult to determine what it is they’d be supporting. In other words, based on past performance, what’s the plan?

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There’s a reason people are voting One Nation. Those who sneer at them are missing the larger picture

The upswell in support for the polarising party is a remarkable phenomenon that threatens to destroy the two-sided political model that has endured since the early years after federation.

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In these bizarre times, fury is being directed at the opposition. The Liberal legacy is collapsing

Pass the smelling salts: an Australian government has used a budget to reorganise the economic system and, by implication, society.

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The know-it-alls pouring scorn on Labor have easy answers. They deserve more scepticism

The Albanese government will soon deliver the most highly anticipated budget in its four years in office. But economic experts probably aren’t going to like it.

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Cluelessness is bringing an era to an end. We won’t call them the major parties much longer

“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Pauline?” began as a novelty ditty, but has become a death metal banger for Labor and the Coalition. For too long they have let too many people down.

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This madness has gone on for too long. Australia can no longer rely on Trump’s America

The essential truth about Donald Trump is that he does not do alliances or even friendships. He’s turned on NATO, on Ukraine, Canada, Denmark. Wait around long enough and he’ll find a reason to go after us.

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Enter Canavan, hyper-nationalist, coal enthusiast and protector of jokes around the barbie

The National Party should be placed in its proper context. Out of the nation’s 226 federal parliamentarians, only 18 identify as National Party MPs. That’s enough to require nothing bigger than a minibus to take them around.

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Australia is demanding bold changes. If Albanese doesn’t deliver, he will have failed us

If the government doesn’t seize this opportunity, take a big risk and invest its political capital in fixing the generational inequity diminishing our society, it will have wasted its moment.

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The rise of Taylor and Hume is improbable. It’s also farcical

As the opposition’s chief economic policymakers and advocates in the lead-up to the election just nine months ago, Taylor and Hume contributed mightily to the Coalition’s landslide defeat. But let’s face it: who hasn’t made a mistake or two at work?

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If the Liberals think Angus Taylor will save them, they’re in for a shock

Polls suggest support for the Liberals is disturbingly close to the level of backing for the Greens, which consistently hovers around 12 per cent. I’m in my fifth decade of writing about Australian politics, and I never expected to write those words.

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