The Guardian Essential report Australian politics and national opinion trends
Essential report: what’s the voter verdict on Labor’s budget? – Australian politics podcast Guardian Australia’s chief political correspondent, Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media about whether or not voters think that Labor’s third federal budget will make a meaningful difference to their current cost of living
The era of small government is ending. And Australians want to regain power ceded to the amoral forces of global capital Peter Lewis Australian voters’ expectation of intervention does not begin and end with renewable energy
Could Labor use Australia’s fears over crime and online safety to power internet regulation? Peter Lewis Australians are concerned over the role of technology in platforming dangerous behaviour – but regulating the digital has its own risks
Here’s the truth: energy transition is hard. Not everyone gets a pony Peter Lewis Jobs will change, communities will be affected, but we have a shot at rising to the challenge of global heating
Essential report: how voters want to tackle Australia’s housing bin fire – Australian Politics podcast Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media about voters’ views on fixing Australia’s housing system
Housing in Australia is a bin fire – and desperate people will buy anything Peter Lewis If you put a solution in front of the public the majority say they will support it, as this week’s Guardian Essential poll shows
Essential Report: underwhelmed by democracy and overwhelmed by the news – Australian politics podcast Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media about voters’ views on the institutions and guardrails that are the basis for Australian democracy
Disinformation continues to infect Australia’s body politic. It’s time to anchor our discourse in shared reality Peter Lewis From a viable news media to social media platforms free from state control to enforceable election ground rules, guardrails are urgently needed
Guardian Essential poll: only 29% of voters support more public funding of election candidates Exclusive : poll rings alarm bells as Albanese government eyes major electoral reforms amid weakening popularity with voters
Australians think the world is going to the dogs. And voters aren’t rewarding Labor for its efforts on the global stage Peter Lewis The latest Guardian Essential report shows most Australians support either a more independent foreign policy or one of strategic isolation
Essential Report: are voters warming to Peter Dutton? – Australian politics podcast Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis about voters’ changing perceptions of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton
The latest poll results are a wake-up call for anyone ready to declare Peter Dutton politically obsolete Peter Lewis If you see your opponent as a caricature, you are setting them up for victory. There is a credible path to Coalition victory at the next election
Guardian Essential poll: Coalition leads for first time since election as Anthony Albanese’s trust ratings tumble Exclusive : Labor’s change of position on stage-three tax cuts appears to have hit the prime minister’s personal favourability
What Anthony Albanese can learn from Taylor Swift in a fragmented world Peter Lewis The US star’s ubiquity might carry some broader lessons on collaboration and grassroots support for a man with a more modest megaphone at his disposal
The stage-three tax cut changes could be a pivotal moment for Anthony Albanese – if he frames them right Peter Lewis This could be his chance to create a new trust frame, asking voters: ‘Who do you trust to stand up for working Australians?’
The WestConnex debacle is a metaphor for 2023’s rolling political disasters, which have left voters seething Peter Lewis Anthony Albanese’s government is at a nadir, voters are furious and our politicians have never seemed more impotent
Are wealthy voters willing to put their money where their heart is on stage-three tax cuts? Peter Lewis Economists tell us these cuts will turbocharge inflation. A sizable majority of ‘post-material voters’ would accept a deferral
Anthony Albanese’s diplomatic tour of duty leaves voters cold as Australian politics turns inward Peter Lewis The PM’s challenge after his trip to China is not to withdraw into his own political cocoon but to champion the values that made Australia a cohesive multicultural society
More Australians support providing assistance to Palestine than Israel in Gaza conflict, Essential poll finds But majority want Australia to stay out of the conflict entirely as less than a third of those polled approve of federal government’s response
The voices of division will keep winning unless we learn these hard lessons from the referendum Peter Lewis ‘Yes’ reflected the rich breadth of Australia’s civic institutions, but they were no match for the fear and division that gravitated around ‘no’
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