IT’S ALMOST seventy years since Australia’s last federal minority government collapsed in internal disunity and scandal, having gone through two leaders kept afloat by two independent Victorian MPs. But minority governments have been much more common in the states and territories in the intervening years, particularly over the past two decades. Since 1990, minority governments...

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People might have strong feelings about asylum seekers, but there’s no sign in the latest polls that harsher measures are a vote winner, writes Peter Browne.

Could the belief that boat people influence the way people vote be one of the great myths of Australan politics, asks Peter Browne.

Why did most of the media run dead on the Securency bribery story, asks Peter Browne.