This Month
Capping big four partnerships would ’cause great disruption’
Two conservative members of an inquiry committee that recommended capping accounting partnerships at 400 said the move would be an “extraordinary intervention” by the government.
- Edmund Tadros
September
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Corporate Australia can’t let Albanese brush reform under the carpet
Business needs to get more on the front foot in calling out the policy and political class failure that most media coverage has normalised.
- Michael Stutchbury
February
Paul Fletcher faces unfriendly fire at NSW Liberals meet-up
The Liberal Party state council meeting on February 24 will consider a proposal to expel powerbroker Alex Hawke and a push to unseat former minister Paul Fletcher.
- Samantha Hutchinson
January
Shock upset as Sinner beats Djokovic in four stunning sets
Italian Jannik Sinner, one of Gen Z’s most promising tennis stars, has handed Novak Djokovic his first defeat at the Australian Open since 2018.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
December 2023
Higgins said ‘I don’t want to’, lip-reader tells court
Giving evidence in Federal Court, witness Tim Reedy said CCTV footage suggested Bruce Lehrmann had been “plying” Ms Higgins with alcohol that night.
- Miklos Bolza
November 2023
BCA boss backs rival to Dutton’s pick for Liberal Senate spot
Bran Black, the former chief of staff to NSW ex-premier Dominic Perrottet, said his onetime colleague has an “inexhaustible work ethic”.
- Tom McIlroy
April 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
There is no political profit for Dutton in opposing the Voice
The Liberal leader’s aim seems to be to keep his parliamentary party together – even at the risk of the wider party’s appeal.
- Craig Emerson
November 2022
ScoMo’s besties feed him to the wolves
There is nothing more tempting for revisionists than an election post-mortem.
- Joe Aston
August 2022
NSW Liberals unite in ‘rebuke’ to Hawke over election fiasco
Premier Dominic Perrottet announced early preselections while party members passed changes to neutralise a position held most recently by powerbroker Alex Hawke.
- Samantha Hutchinson
July 2022
NSW Liberals eye reforms to prevent another election debacle
The party is considering changes that will strip a high-powered position once occupied by Alex Hawke of the bulk of its decision-making powers.
- Samantha Hutchinson
June 2022
Four years on, the Biloela family is home
Priya and Nades Nadesalingam and their Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa touched down at Thangool airport near their home town of Biloela, Queensland.
- Nick Gibbs and Tess Ikonomou
- Exclusive
- Liberal Party
Morrison minister attacks NSW Liberals over ‘preselection wars’
Former immigration minister Alex Hawke said he and Scott Morrison spent months in negotiations to protect candidates who had the best chance of winning.
- Aaron Patrick
April 2022
- Opinion
- Satire
Net zero climate policy is not dead. It’s just pining for the fjords.
It’s off the twig! It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! Is it really an ex-policy?
- Rowan Dean
Female MPs say Morrison saved their seats
Scott Morrison has taken on internal critics in NSW and accused hostile Premiers of politicising the flood disasters.
- Phillip Coorey and Mark Ludlow
- Opinion
- Federal election
No limit to the pile-on from Morrison’s many enemies on his own side
Scott Morrison had a win over NSW preselections in court, but the political scars have badly damaged the Coalition’s hopes of picking up seats in the state.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Federal election
It’s all in the timing. Factional enemies square up with Morrison
The Morrison government is struggling for clear air on the cusp of an election and Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, with nothing to lose, decided to square up.
- Phillip Coorey
Liberals finalise candidates for key NSW seats
The NSW Liberal Party has named candidates for nine seats across the state, but an ongoing court case could see them overturned.
Election may have to wait for judges’ decision on NSW candidates
The NSW Court of Appeal is considering whether to overrule the Prime Minister’s selection of three Liberal MPs without a vote of members.
- Aaron Patrick
March 2022
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Spending in this budget will certainly be targeted – at re-election
The budget is supposed to be about the long-term future. It’s really about the government’s short-term future. Labor will back it – and add spending of its own.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Analysis
- Political leadership
NSW Liberals are aghast at Morrison’s takeover
Upset at being denied the right to choose parliamentary candidates, Liberals booed Immigration Minister Alex Hawke at the weekend.
- Aaron Patrick