Phillip Hudson
Phillip Hudson is the National Political Editor of The Herald Sun.
He has worked in the Canberra Press Gallery since 1994 and covered six federal election campaigns, 19 Budgets, four Prime Ministers, 10 Opposition Leaders and one hung Parliament. During the 2010 election campaign he broke the “real Julia” story.
Phillip joined The Herald in Melbourne in 1989 and worked as a police reporter, property editor and senior business writer before moving to Canberra as economics reporter for the Herald Sun and other News Limited papers. He has held positions including political correspondent for The Age and The Sunday Age and Bureau Chief for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Phillip is a now long-ago winner of the Melbourne Press Club Young Journalist of the Year Award. He is also the recent-past President of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery.
Articles by Phillip Hudson
While the west was in focus, the south was crumbling
The chaos in the Victorian Liberal Party is a setback for Tony Abbott’s quest to break Julia Gillard’s stranglehold on…... Read more
Shaken and stirred, Labor goes after Abbott Bond style
A recent poll found that one in four Australians thought Tony Abbott would be well cast as the villain in…... Read more
Rudd’s hospital plan in a critical condition
Kevin Rudd’s grand plan was to end the blame game with his radical overhaul of hospital funding. He failed. The…... Read more
Giving Gillard’s detractors the Green light
IT was a marriage of political convenience when Julia Gillard and Bob Brown signed their formal alliance on September 1,…... Read more
A game of mutually assured destruction
The Kevin question is again consuming Labor. Will he or won’t he make a move to be prime minister again?…... Read more
This Thomson thing has always been about Gillard
The arrest of Craig Thomson is a political disaster for Labor and Julia Gillard. It was Labor that put the…... Read more
Gillard’s economic blow torch has burned her back
Wayne Swan had been hoping desperately to break a 23-year hoodoo. A Labor government had not delivered a surplus since…... Read more
Where is the money for everything coming from?
Would you be willing to pay an extra $9 every time you fill the car with petrol if it would…... Read more
Abbott needs to find a way out of the corner he’s in
On January 16, Julia Gillard will overtake Kevin Rudd’s two years, six months and 21 days in office making her…... Read more
Our election too will be decided on key battlegrounds
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott will be closely looking at how Barack Obama won the US election as they lock…... Read more
Putting the Slipper (and Thomson) in to the parties
It’s a sign of the strange political times when two of the most reviled characters in federal Parliament - Peter…... Read more
A stint in Government House is the PM’s gift to give
If Ricky Ponting scores a double century in the Boxing Day Test and announces his retirement from cricket, there would…... Read more
Let’s make friends with another billion people
Trucking magnate Lindsay Fox looks at India’s booming economy and population of 1.2 billion people and sees great potential to…... Read more
None of these asses deserve so much as a donkey vote
There’s something far worse than a hung Parliament. It’s an election decided by a public so disappointed, disillusioned and turned…... Read more
Swan looking for cuts that are too little, too late
Here’s one number you won’t hear Wayne Swan spruiking: $173,315,000,000. That’s the amount of red ink officially booked by the…... Read more
It’s a matter of trust in Tony
Tony Abbott is the 13th man to lead the Liberal Party since it was founded by Sir Robert Menzies. Six…... Read more
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