Terry Barnes: How Australia’s answer to Johnson may have just sunk the centre-right

A colourful, entertaining, and apparently Teflon-coated Deputy Prime Minister falls foul of a change in political culture.

Terry Barnes: A disaster for the centre-right. Its last effective Anglosphere government falls in New Zealand

It has been dispatched by one man – New Zealand First’s party leader, Winston Peters, who has Labour’s inexperienced leader in his pocket.

Terry Barnes: British conservatives should watch the New Zealand election campaign closely

A solid but unspectacular centre-right Prime Minister, with a good economic record, is trying to fight off a charismatic, high-spending challenge from the left.

Terry Barnes: May would have seen her snap election fiasco coming, if only she’d looked abroad to…Australia

A massive poll lead. Going early. A wooden leader. Mindless mantras. A despised opposition. And then collapse. The parallels are uncanny: why didn’t Crosby warn her?

Terry Barnes: The Prime Minister and her advisers should learn from John Key’s management style

Bill English, his successor, worked co-operatively with him and Wayne Eagleson. There’s a lesson here for Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

Terry Barnes: How Australia’s Liberals came unstuck

A lacklustre campaign, a complacent leader, and a ruthless opposition have not just clipped Malcolm Turnbull’s wings, but ripped them off.

Terry Barnes: Australia’s election is a tame affair compared to what’s happening in Britain right now

Malcolm Turnbull has run a “safety first” campaign – and is expected to win.

Terry Barnes: Tony Abbott – a good man who fell victim to a culture of hostility and hatred

He will be treated more kindly by history than by his contemporaries or the opinion polls – having begun to repair a Budget destroyed by Labor profligacy.

Terry Barnes: Don’t rule out Trump winning the Presidency

The President is also de facto leader of much of the world, and the current Republican front runner presents a truly frightening prospect.

Terry Barnes: The Mills Bomb finally blows up in the Speaker’s face

She’s gone – and, if has a shred of parliamentary integrity, Bercow must accept full responsibility for his choice.

Terry Barnes: Will Abbott’s political near-death experience change his style of government?

The Australian Prime Minister survived a rebellion last night – but now his relationship with his colleagues is fundamentally altered.

Terry Barnes: The further woes of the Speaker’s favourite official

Carole Mills is tangled up in a burqa ban – and a Select Committee report that it was misled about her knowledge of an Australian parliamentary controversy.

Terry Barnes: Carol Mills is a decent person who has been left by the Speaker in an impossible position

She is being hung out to dry by John Bercow’s determination both to get his own way and save his parliamentary skin.

Terry Barnes: Faced with a crisis, Tony Abbott becomes a statesman

Sometimes it takes a searing crisis for a political leader to reach beyond their political comfort zone.

Terry Barnes: Cameron should have backed AV when he had the chance – but it’s too late now

If the Conservatives doesn’t win a majority in 2015, one of the reasons will be their 2011 decision to stick with First Past The Post.