Tag: Australian Labor Party
In its soul-searching, Australia’s rightist coalition should examine its relationship with...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne
Among the many lessons to be learnt by Australia's defeated Liberal-National coalition...
Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of...
COMMENTARY: By Cathy Peters
To be Jewish does not mean an automatic identification with the rogue state of Israel. Nor does it mean that Jews...
Australian Labor isn’t alone. Parties of the Left are making a...
ANALYSIS: By Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
One aspect of May’s federal election in Australia has been strangely overlooked: Labor’s win follows a pattern among the...
Pacific security should be a matter for ‘Pacific family’, says Wong
RNZ Pacific
Australia should be more engaged in the Pacific, something the previous government failed to do sufficiently, says Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
Wong was...
Australia has more women in cabinet than ever before: what difference...
ANALYSIS: By Louise Chappell, UNSW Sydney and Claire Annesley, UNSW Sydney
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first cabinet is Australia’s most diverse ever. Not only do...
As Wong makes her mark in the Pacific, the Albanese government...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decision to embark on a diplomatic offensive to outflank China in the Pacific within...
‘We’re listening and we’ll do better’, new minister Wong tells Pacific
RNZ Pacific
Australia's newly sworn-in Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, says the new Labor government "will be a generous, respectful and reliable member of the Pacific...
Labor has a huge health agenda ahead of it. What policies...
ANALYSIS: By Stephen Duckett, The University of Melbourne
Labor’s win in Saturday’s election heralds real change in health policy. Although Labor had a small-target strategy,...
Scott Morrison defeated – Labor to govern in minority or majority
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Morrison government has been resoundingly defeated in the Australian federal election, with Labor headed for office,...
Australians face their starkest choice at the ballot box in 50...
ANALYSIS: By Mark Kenny, Australian National University
You first have to lose an election on principle if you want to win one on principle.
This was...
Australia’s ‘independent day’ looms as voters reel from a ‘gutful’ of...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Kalinga Seneviratne
When Australians go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new government, the vast continent which was stolen from...
Dan McGarry: How to do something about Australia’s Pacific ‘stuff up’
THE VILLAGE EXPLAINER: By Dan McGarry
If the coming election goes to Australia’s Labor party, Penny Wong is very likely to become Foreign Minister. So...
Morrison leads Coalition to ‘miracle’ win, but how do they govern...
By Marija Taflaga of the Australian National University in Canberra
The man that has “always believed in miracles” has just delivered one for the Liberal...
