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Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author, academic and regular columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

How Pauline Hanson’s One Nation can win the next federal election.

Why One Nation can win the next federal election

People keen to write off One Nation as the party of angry, old, white men are now demonstrably wrong in the same way Democrats were wrong about Donald Trump in 2024.

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Dionne Gain

The big, unspoken issue that drives our strong feelings about second-hand submarines

There is a fundamental frustration that AUKUS seems to be something that just happened. We woke up one morning and there it was. A surprise to the Australian people, a surprise to France, a surprise to Labor.

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Dionne Gain

Few would have expected this One Nation MP’s maiden speech. There’s a subtle shift in Hanson’s movement

Meet Jason Virgo, the One Nation MP whose closest friends are immigrants and who campaigned busily for same-sex marriage. Can Pauline Hanson’s protest party hold its diverse membership together?

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Dionne Gain

The budget fallout has Angus Taylor back in contention. But there’s something askew about this battle

Labor has delivered the most disruptive, controversial budget since at least Abbott’s 2014 offering. Labor is under siege, and yet the situation is deceptively complex.

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Jim Chalmers is a dramatist. He’s setting the stage for his big reveal

Our tax system tells you that if you earn money by working, you’re a fool. You should instead be earning it by owning an asset whose growth is basically guaranteed, and which requires you to do nothing much.

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Jim Chalmers

House prices are in decline. Is there a reason for the Albanese government to flat-out break a promise?

Labor enjoys a heroically dominant parliamentary position and the Coalition is in disarray. But the government has clearly detected an even bigger shift in the mood and hopes of the electorate.

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Australians have had it with mining companies. A gas exports tax is inevitable

When One Nation voters strongly support a policy backed by the Greens, Labor’s rank-and-file and the likely future leader of the Liberal Party, it might not happen overnight, but it will happen.

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Labor’s scheme was out of control. Lopping off a third of participants is the nuclear option

The NDIS was forecast to serve 900,000 people by the end of the decade. Instead, it will serve 600,000. That leaves a void that the anxieties of hundreds of thousands of people will fill – people for whom the stakes are extremely high.

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Taylor’s immigration policy points to a ban on one kind of migrant

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor’s comments and policy plans on immigration are reminiscent of Nigel Farage, Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson. The clear inference is that the migrants he describes as of “subversive intent” are Muslim.

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Simon Letch

Many have politicised the Roberts-Smith case. That temptation should be over

Former prime minister Tony Abbott and others have been eager to say we should not judge Ben Roberts-Smith by civilian standards. Let’s be clear, under these war crime charges he is being judged by his military peers.

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