Peter Browne

Peter Browne is editor of Inside Story at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne

Australia’s election: ends and beginnings

A Labor leadership coup, a knife-edge election, a hung parliament, a cliffhanger aftermath - Australian politics have been through a three-month whirlwind. Peter Browne maps an extraordinary period and assesses the prospects of the new Labor-led coalition government.

By Peter Browne

/ 17 Sep 2010

Australia: a backward victory

The early November general election in Australia was the first in a major western country since the events of 11 September and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. It was held

By Peter Browne

/ 14 Nov 2001