If it needs it, Australia can draw on significant experience of minority government
Minority governments can successfully prosecute their policy agendas even while being destabilised.
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Federal Election 2016
Explainer: who are the independents and minor parties in the lower house?
After a slim victory, how the Coalition works with the crossbench MPs will prove important to the success and stability of the Turnbull government.
Coalition scrapes through but Turnbull needs to alter course
How did the Coalition go from a resounding victory in 2013 to the edge of electoral defeat?
Labor has cause for hope – and some concern – in this election loss
Labor and Bill Shorten are right to be pleased with the number of seats they picked up, but it was still not enough for them to form government – and that is the serious task ahead.
Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?
What's in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
State of the states: what were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia’s state and territories?
We reconvened our State of the states experts to respond to the results of the 2016 federal election.
Remind me again, what did the Coalition promise during the election campaign?
What did the Coalition promise during the campaign in 11 key policy areas, from health to infrastructure to jobs?
Turnbull celebrates victory after Shorten concedes defeat
More than a week after the election, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has formally conceded defeat, quickly followed by Malcolm Turnbull welcoming the Coalition's victory.
Election 2016 reveals the end of the rusted-on voter and the death of the two-party system
With voters turning away from the two major parties and towards the Greens and micro-parties, it may be time to rethink our entire electoral system.
Politics podcast: Wayne Swan on Labor’s next moves
As a veteran of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years, former treasurer Wayne Swan is a politician with a great deal of experience with parliamentary instability.
Turnbull wins more crossbench support as government’s numbers still to be finalised
Two more crossbenchers, Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie, have given Malcolm Turnbull assurances they will back his government on supply and confidence.
Three reasons why we should have seen Labor’s ‘Medicare SMS’ coming
The idea of hitting voters with a powerful message on election day is just the culmination of three trends in Australian campaign communication that have been brewing for decades.
Grattan on Friday: Coalition gets nasty reminder debt and deficit are important, like it once said
The political and fiscal vice in which Malcolm Turnbull is now caught was neatly illustrated by a coincidence of timing in these early post-election days.
Vital Signs: goodbye AAA Australia?
Ratings agency S&P seems unconvinced of the Australian government's ability to reduce the budget deficit.
Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting?
There's something about seeing the ballot process take place – the vote, the count – that inspires confidence. That wouldn't be the same with any electronic voting system.
Katter backs Turnbull, as credit agency puts Australia on notice
Crossbencher Bob Katter has given his support on supply and confidence to a Coalition government after a meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Brisbane.
Australia could be about to lose its AAA rating, and here’s why
Budget repair seems even less plausible after this election and this is the main risk to Australia's AAA credit rating.
Cheerleaders of the press don’t win elections like they used to
Given newspapers' continued role as the main provider of new news every day, and the amplifying effect of social media, their potential to influence the body politic remains substantial.
Barnaby Joyce gives some protection on Turnbull’s vulnerable right flank
Within the Coalition the only cheer is among the Nationals who could actually gain one in their numbers at an election where the government has lost a swag of seats.
Please don’t explain: Hanson 2.0 and the war on experts
The return of One Nation to parliament threatens to install expertise denialism and conspiracy theory in the heart of Australian democracy.
Defiant Hanson will test a Coalition government
Pauline Hanson and her party will potentially be a divisive presence in the next parliament. The challenge, for a potential Coalition government in particular, will be just how to handle her.
Columnists
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“ The L/NP takes the lead in 76 of 150 seats. Tas voters overturn party Senate order
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“ In my experience, the world has not faced a more challenging time
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“ We like Aussie slang but many pollies miss the point – authenticity matters
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“ More ordinary political expressions with not-so-ordinary histories
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PolicyCheck
Labor’s $3 billion childcare plan
Labor has unveiled a $3 billion child care policy it will take to the polls on July 2. What has the party proposed and how is it different?
FactCheck
Does the government spend $3 billion each year on the offshore asylum seeker detention system?
Was Greens leader Richard Di Natale right to say the government spends $3 billion each year on the "offshore detention centre regime"?
Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion more per year into Medicare than Labor did?
Has the Coalition cut bulk billing for pathology and scans ‘to make patients pay more’?
Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?
Is the Australian Sex Party right about religious organisations, tax and record-keeping?
Lobby groups
New-style lobbying: how GetUp! channels Australians' voices into politics
Political engagement in Australia has changed enormously over the past decade. New organisations such as GetUp! have taken the lead in channelling citizen voice into politics.
The ACTU is a key Labor supporter but how much power does it actually have?
Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right
Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test
How the Property Council is shaping the debate around negative gearing, taxes
State of the states
What were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia’s state and territories?
We reconvened our State of the states experts to respond to the results of the 2016 federal election.
South Australia’s economy is the laggard of a nation in transition
Seismic shocks could shift Victoria the Coalition’s way
Why Labor’s fortunes are on the rise in Western Australia
19 reasons why Turnbull and Shorten keep flying to Queensland
New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats
How local politics in the Northern Territory could muddy the federal vote
Australian Capital Territory voters face two elections in 2016
A handful of votes could decide Tasmania’s Liberal-held seats
Election explainers
Why do I have to vote, anyway?
What do you need to know about key policy areas?
Why can’t Australians vote online?
How does the Senate count work?
How are lower house votes counted? And what is ‘the swing’?
How does our political donations system work?
Why are there 150 lower house MPs and 76 senators?
What are the rules governing political advertising?
What are the opinion polls and how accurate are they?
What is a double-dissolution election?
What is the caretaker period?
Who’s who in the cabinet and shadow cabinet?
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