Paul Bongiorno
Paul Bongiorno: Leaders face summer of discontent – and that’s before floods and fire
Coming to the end of 2023, the year hasn’t worked out quite as well as Anthony Albanese would have wanted. It has...
Paul Bongiorno: Hold your fire, Albanese is not done yet
There weren’t many bells and whistles to herald it, but on the first anniversary of the cold-blooded ambush of two Queensland police...
Paul Bongiorno: Toxic immigration debate to dog government into next year
If Anthony Albanese believed in Santa Claus there is no doubt top of his Christmas wish list would be the end of...
Paul Bongiorno: Government should heed calls on inhumane refugee and immigration laws
The High Court under its new Chief Justice Stephen Gaegler has smashed the ease with which our politicians can play fast and...
Paul Bongiorno: Albanese has 18 months to overcome political PTSD
The Albanese government seems to be suffering from a political post-traumatic stress disorder. They inevitably try to mask it but every prime...
Paul Bongiorno: Peter Dutton abandons restraint in the quest for more political wins
Nothing exercises the minds of politicians more than the realisation that the next federal election is closer than the last, and we...
Paul Bongiorno: The odds are narrowing for Anthony Albanese and the government
The reverberations of the spectacularly failed Voice referendum are continuing to hit the Albanese government, leaving it in a politically weaker position...
Paul Bongiorno: Partisan politics serving the national interest poorly in very troubling times
The Albanese government is walking a tightrope between Washington and Beijing, but holding its balance here is proving much less challenging than...
Paul Bongiorno: Can America give Australia the assurances it craves?
As he arrived at the official presidential guest house in Washington DC across the street from the White House, Anthony Albanese gave...
Paul Bongiorno: No one emerges a winner from a very grubby, politicised referendum
If anyone needed convincing, the weekend’s almost clean sweep rejection of the Voice referendum is further proof that the withholding of bipartisan...