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Labour’s first primary must welcome in the capital’s million-strong Labour voters Political scientists have been warning us for over a decade that political parties are in their death-throes. They may well be right. But no one has come up with a convincing alternative...

‘You’re all the same!’ or ‘They’re all a bunch of lying, thieving b****rds!’ are phrases I hear every time I go out on the doorstep, and phrases I am sure all Labour party activists have heard before. But they are more than just the words of a bitter angry man or...

Balmain is an inner-Sydney state constituency with 50,000 voters. Traditionally Labor heartland, it has changed under gentrification and its vote is now unusual in that it falls almost exactly into thirds – split between the Liberals, Labor and the Greens. It was one...

The Spanish Socialist party is stuck in a nasty paradox: its main opponent, the People’s party – in power nationally as well as in most of the regions and important cities – is performing very poorly after two years in power, dropping 25 per cent in the polls,...