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Steven Miles has recorded the first positive personal rating for a state Labor leader since in three years, but his party’s primary vote still lags Premier David Crisafulli’s LNP.

Voters warming to Miles as Crisafulli’s popularity continues to slip

New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.

  • Matt Dennien

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The results show the share of Australians who believe they could not be friends with someone of differing political views falls the older they are.

Young people most likely to see political views as dealbreaker for friendship

A new poll found young people are more likely than their older counterparts to believe they could not be friends with people who hold differing political views.

  • Millie Muroi
The call lauds the independent and describes the Coalition in sharply critical terms.
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Audio of an apparent push poll backing teal Zoe Daniel

The call lauds the independent and describes the Coalition in sharply critical terms.

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Australians must speak up, or the key issues will be overlooked

In these troubling times, we need to raise the standard of public debate.

  • Chris Wallace
Bill Shorten, with wife Chloe, concedes election defeat in May 2019.

Pollsters, beware polite voters. They can turn in the booth

There is much at stake in this election for the opinion pollsters who got it so spectacularly wrong last time.

  • Michael Yabsley
Healthcare topped Australia’s worry list in 2021

Australia’s five biggest worries in 2021

The coronavirus, especially infection rates, restrictions and economic disruptions, shaped what Australians most worried about.

  • Matt Wade
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NSW Opposition Leader, Jodi McKay.

NSW Labor Party fails to cut through to voters

The pandemic has favoured incumbent politicians around the country and that seems especially true in NSW.

  • The Herald's View
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a sober warning in Madrid which other nations are taking seriously.

Here in Madrid, the view of Australia's tricky tactics is not pretty

Australia will fight to stop a ban on using an accounting trick to boost its climate change credentials but the diplomatic cost will be high.

  • Frank Jotzo
Pell leaving court on Wednesday morning.

Suffer the perpetrator: Pell and the twisted inversion of victimhood

Conservatives are supposed to be champions of the rule of law. Not this time.

  • Tim Soutphommasane
The impounded Iranian crude oil tanker, Grace 1, is silhouetted as it sits anchored off the coast of Gibraltar. Australia will join a US-led coalition to protect shipping in the Straits of Hormuz.

Echoes of Iraq: why Australia shouldn't be joining US action against Iran

A former Australian Defence Department secretary warns that US administration officials are itching for a military conflict - and we should stay out of it.

  • Paul Barratt