Add to ORKGIan Macfarlane's failed attempt to switch from the Liberal Party to the Nationals highlights problems in Queensland's merger of the two main anti-Labor parties and suggests tensions within the federal Coalition. With a leadership change looming for the Nationals, Peter Clarke talks to Brian Costar, emeritus professor of politics at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, about Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Turnbull and the balancing act that keeps the Coalition afloat. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 18 December 2015
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Published in t...
To the surprise of most commentators, Labor looks set to form government in Queensland. Not so surpr...
The Coalition lost in Victoria and looks like doing less well than expected in Queensland and New So...
Peter Clarke talks to Brian Costar about why Cathy McGowan is likely to serve more than one term, wh...
The Coalition lost in Victoria and looks like doing less well than expected in Queensland and New So...
The Coalition has won a convincing victory in New South Wales. Stephen Mills talks to Peter Clarke a...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 13 April 1987.; Part of the Pryor c...
Australia's twenty-second prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, defeated in 1983 by Bob Hawke after almost...
Queenslanders will have a chance to pass judgment on the Bligh-Beattie Labor government at the polls...
Talking to Inside Story contributing editor Peter Mares not long before he became the Labor candidat...
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Title devised by cataloguer.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Published in t...