Viewed warmly on both sides of politics and in the media, the federal finance minister is playing a vital role for the government.

Norman Abjorensen argues in this article that it would be a mistake not to take Peter Dutton MP seriously.

The Australian prime ministership was created out of almost nothing during the first five decades of the twentieth century A VISITOR to Australia, knowing nothing of the country, its history or its institutions, might consult the constitution, the official rule book, to understand how Australia functions. There, the visitor would find the powerful figure of...

What unites the group of Liberals who want to steer the party away from its roots? BACK in the early 1980s, a seemingly invincible Neville Wran strung together a series of Labor victories in New South Wales that left the Liberal Party teetering on the edge of irrelevance. The federal Coalition’s election loss in 1983...

The party sometimes forgets that Liberal leaders have been most electorally successful when they’ve governed from the centre Malcolm Turnbull’s accession to the prime ministership presents us with a paradox. His leadership is a return to Liberal Party orthodoxy, yet the forces most opposed to him are within his own ranks. On early indications –...