Paula Matthewson
The New Daily
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Scott Morrison has been given a second-chance bonus. How will he use it? Scott Morrison has been given a second-chance bonus. How will he use it?
In 2020 so far, there have been two graphic examples of how voter trust can either be shattered or strengthened by a national crisis. → Read More
Coronavirus changes: COVID-19 takes sting out of Libs' anti-Labor slogans
Looked at purely from a political point of view, the COVID pandemic could work to Labor's advantage on two fronts. → Read More
Coronavirus politics: Parliament is in hibernation. But should it be?
One of the hot topics being debated by many politically engaged Australians right now is whether the national parliament should be sitting. → Read More
Paula Matthewson: Why Scott Morrison needs to put Australians ahead of political advantage
Contained within the German language is a word that describes the way Labor MPs have been feeling since the stimulus package announcement. → Read More
Domestic violence: How all Australians can stop the scourge
Another woman has been violently killed, at the hands of a man she knew. The couple’s three children also died in the car fire ignited by him. → Read More
Coalition split: How it could happen to Scott Morrison?
If you don’t live in Queensland, you might not have ever heard of the Liberal National Party. Maybe you assumed it’s another name for the Coalition. It's not -- and the threat to Coalition unity is strong and growing stronger → Read More
Barnaby Joyce, the last of the political dinosaurs
Not content with spoiling the day that was meant to be dedicated to the bushfire crisis, Barnaby Joyce ended this week as he began. → Read More
The Liberal party merit myth, and why it's every man (or woman) for themselves
As some Liberal women have grown to understand that Liberal men without merit are still being rewarded, they’ve lost their anti-quota fervour → Read More
Why the vultures circling Julie Bishop’s cosy WA seat will go hungry for a while yet
It didn’t take long after Liberal cabinet minister Kelly O’Dwyer’s bombshell retirement announcement for people to start wondering whether the country’s Liberal hard-liners yearning to take over Julie Bishop's ultra-safe seat have had their hopes dashed. The former foreign minister's career, like her passion to advance women in politics, isn't over yet → Read More
Paula Matthewson scores the two biggest political backflips of the year
In politics, as in sport, the success or failure of a backflip depends on how well you stick the landing. Which is why these last few weeks of the The Coalition and Labor have both done about-faces -- the Liberals on a federal ICAC, Labor's left on asylum seekers -- but only one managed to pull off the political acrobatics → Read More
Scott Morrison needs to lean to the left or right of the Liberals
The moderates of the Liberal Party have struck back against the reactionary right by exploiting the weakened state of the Morrison government. → Read More
Why doubting Scott Morrison's 'daggy dad' routine is a mistake
Twitterati, political junkies and insiders can laugh at Scott Morrison's attempts to portray himself as the bloke next door. That said, it might just work → Read More
Barnaby Joyce's persecution complex brings more woe for the Nats
According to the disgraced former leader of the National Party, Barnaby Joyce, there’s a leftist plot under way to stop him becoming leader again. → Read More
The PM has the strategy all wrong in the battle for Wentworth
given the uncertainty created by the Morrison government this week, there’s not a lot to suggest that the election of Dr Phelps would make matters worse → Read More
Mathias Cormann: The incredible shrinking man
He didn’t vote for Pauline Hanson’s racist motion. He wasn’t even in the Senate chamber when it happened. Yet it was left to the government’s leader in the → Read More
In Wentworth it's all about protests and preferences
To protest or not to protest. That will be the question occupying the minds of residents in the federal seat of Wentworth when they vote next weekend. → Read More
Coalition swaps leaders. Labor swaps focus and policies
Yes, it’s October already and the Christmas decorations have appeared in our department stores. But don't expect a holiday from the politicians. → Read More
PM does what Turnbull wouldn't: Woo the hard-core right
Every day over the past parliamentary fortnight, Labor asked the new PM Scott Morrison to explain why Malcolm Turnbull is no longer prime minister. → Read More
Barnaby Joyce needs self-reflection after accusing Malcolm Turnbull of 'sniping'
Even at the best of times, politicians aren’t great at self-reflection. The antics of barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull leave no doubt about that → Read More
'The Liberal bullies must be named'
Only the public excoriation of the bullies will force the Liberal Party to change its hyper-masculine culture. → Read More