Amy Remeikis

May 2, 2025

What a power-sharing parliament may hold

Over the course of the election campaign, there’s been a lot of fear-mongering around the prospect of a “hung parliament” or “minority…

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Affordable childcare would actually boost the economy

Childcare has barely rated a mention from the two major parties this election campaign. That’s a shame because childcare doesn’t just improve…

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It’s official: The most pre-poll votes ever

5,679,443 Australians cast their ballot at a pre-poll booth by the end of Thursday, around 100,000 more than the total last election-…

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Disinformation bots targeting Dutton, boosting Albanese reports AAP

AAP has a story on disinformation bots on social media you may find interesting: The culprit behind a disinformation campaign targeting coalition…

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NSW to move to stop political parties circulating postal vote applications

A hot topic this election campaign has been political parties sending postal vote applications. The concern is that the parties harvest data…

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This election, Peter Dutton has been repeatedly very, very clear

Chart: The Australia Institute Get the data Created with Datawrapper Over the course of an election campaign punctuated by about-faces and flip…

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One Nation’s election prospects

The Liberal Party’s break with its Howard-era policy of not doing preference deals with One Nation has revived interest in the right-wing…

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Sally Sara then asks one of the crucial missing questions this campaign – why has there been nothing on raising welfare and…

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Katy Gallagher continues: We accept that more needs to be done in compliance and definitely that is why we have put that…

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As we pointed out yesterday, the Coalition’s plans to raise more tax from vapes means that they would scrape Labor’s policy of…

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