Glen Connley

May 1, 2025

Election entrée: Dark money and your money pay for most of the political ads you’re seeing

Bill Browne, Joshua Black At this stage of the election, you have no doubt seen plenty of political ads. They’ll be on…

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April 30, 2025

Election entrée: Longest wait for results

Skye Predavec Anne Kantor Fellow After the 2010 election, independent crossbenchers negotiated for 17 days with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition…

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April 29, 2025

Election entrée: Feel the election campaign has dragged on? It could have been longer

Joshua Black Postdoctoral Research Fellow Election campaigns come and go, but some go faster than others. If the current election campaign feels…

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April 28, 2025

The Great Wall of Hamer. Dirty tricks in Kooyong.

How’s Amelia Hamer going? First, she goes from battling renter to slumlord (ok, international property investor), in one headline. Then there was…

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Chalmers’ cheeky plea to Dickson voters:

Labor probably doesn’t really think it can win Peter Dutton’s marginal seat of Dickson, but forcing the Opposition Leader to spend some…

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Jim Chalmers expands on that claim a Dutton government would endanger the nation’s triple A credit rating: The biggest risk to our…

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Chalmers: Coalition would threaten Australia’s triple A credit rating

Treasurer, Jim Chalmers: Labor is the only party going to this election on Saturday with a costed, coherent, and credible plan for…

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I’ve shown you mine, now you show me yours.

Jim Chalmers challenges Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor to release their costings “immediately”. We’ve made it very clear what our costs are…

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Treasurer and Finance Minister Media Conference on Labor’s costings

Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher are speaking Brisbane, releasing Labor’s policy costings for its election commitments. Jim Chalmers: The costings that we…

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Election entrée: Preference pile-ons

Skye Predavec Last election, independent Kylea Tink won the seat of North Sydney on a primary vote of 25%. This was the…

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