As the longest-serving member of the Canberra press gallery, Rob Chalmers could be expected to have been old school. Chalmers, who toiled...

The conflicting, contradictory pressures on Scott Morrison’s government and his grasp on the prime ministership were graphically displayed these past seven days....

In just under 50 words late last October, Prime Minister Scott Morrison set an improvised explosive device for himself while thinking he...

Political crises are always unpredictable and have consequences, intended and not, fortuitous and ill fated. So it is with the current lava...

Once in a while, someone wheels out the “Shane Stone Memo” device in Australian political commentary. Its time has surfaced again. In...

Politics has always been hardball. It isn’t beanbag and some say it isn’t for the faint-hearted. Despite aspiration and some determination, recent...

Gladys Berejiklian was careful in picking a word to describe how she’s dealt with a series of personal and broader political crises...

It sounds absurd but there’s a compelling case that Scott Morrison has a ‘don’t know, don’t tell’ policy with himself. Watching him...

Politics is measured in numbers and lists – the latter covering glory and shame. Dates of times when an election victory was...

Smug Scott was nowhere to be seen for most of this week. This was a change as Smug Scott has become a...