Queensland Premier Steven Miles is falling behind his Liberal counterpart as preferred premier. Federally, Labor and the Coalition remain tied, according to Freshwater polling.
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Tracking young people who are accused of serious crimes will not actually reduce youth crime - in fact, it may well entrench it.
The Coalition lead Labor 53–47, excluding undecided, in a federal Essential poll.
Inflation and the cost of living continue to eat away at Labor’s polling advantage.
The summer break hasn’t changed the Freshwater polling figures for the two major parties federally. Overseas, the former US President is in a strong position ahead of the Iowa caucus.
Latest polling suggests Labor’s position might be improving slightly, perhaps due to increased optimism about the state of the economy.
A proposed Senate election reform would be little to fix the unequal representation of the states and territories in the upper house - in fact, it would make it worse.
The Labor Party continues the poll slide it has experienced since the failed Voice referendum in October.
The new premier has a great deal of experience in politics, but inherits the premiership with the state facing a series of major economic problems.
An activist premier, a gifted political communicator and a hard man of politics, Dan Andrews has been an enormously consequential leader and one of national significance.
If the “yes” case is to win the October referendum, there will need to be sharp turn around in the polling trends to date.
By the October 2024 state election, Labor will have governed for almost ten years, so there could be an ‘it’s time’ factor for voters.
For the first time since becoming premier in 2014, more voters disapprove of Dan Andrews than approve of him in the Morgan poll.
Victoria’s new renewable plan is welcome - but it relies on building unsexy and challenging new transmission lines across the state.
Oppositions have two key jobs: to hold the government to account and prepare to take office themselves. At the moment, Liberal oppositions are failing on both counts.
Non-racialism is one of the unexamined dogmas of the governing ANC, which has never fully understood how white racism functions.
The hardest thing for an ageing government is to remake itself. On balance, last week’s developments in Spring Street represent the first step towards Victorian Labor performing that elusive feat.
Branch stacking has been a problem for a long time in Australia, and changing it will take a genuine will to make party processes more open and accountable.
Daniel Andrews’ resounding win has probably secured his party another two terms- and it will send chills down the spines of Liberals in Canberra.
The main arguments used by those who voted against assisted dying – including that the bill has insufficient safeguards – in Victoria’s upper house, deserve further scrutiny.
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Emeritus professor of politics, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Justice and Legal Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of Employment Relations, School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University
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Researcher, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
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Vice-Chancellor's professorial fellow, Monash University
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
