Today
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Middle ground on the Middle East is bleeding Labor
A fast end to hostilities in the Middle East would suit the Albanese government as it tries to focus on cost of living.
- Andrew Tillett
Australia pursuing ‘appeasement’ with ceasefire call: Dutton
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on Thursday said Australia’s stance on the Middle East conflict would “diminish” relations with Israel and other allies.
- Ronald Mizen
Who’s up and down in this year’s Power List – and who wanted to get out
This week on The Fin podcast, political editor Phillip Coorey and AFR Magazine editor Matthew Drummond take us behind the scenes of the 2024 Power Issue.
Yesterday
Labor targets supermarket ‘shrinkflation’
Changes to unit pricing rules have been designed to help consumers avoid a hidden form of inflation.
- Tom McIlroy
Pro-Palestinian activists to defy police, PM with October 7 rallies
The prime minister says holding events on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel would be “incredibly provocative” and cause a great deal of distress.
- Andrew Tillett
Double dissolution election threat ‘serious’: Labor
Labor is preparing to reintroduce its stalled shared equity housing bill into parliament next week, in an attempt to increase pressure on the Greens.
- Tom McIlroy
PM condemns Iran; Vance debates Walz; CBA shuffles ranks
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
PM condemns Iran for Israel missile strike
Anthony Albanese called for a Middle East ceasefire, as he warned that planned pro-Palestinian protests for October 7 would stoke disharmony.
- Andrew Tillett
This Month
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Where middle Australia meets the Middle East
Israel’s push into Lebanon ensures a greater fraying of any complacency about this country’s claims to enjoy enduring social cohesion over generations of immigrants.
- Jennifer Hewett
September
Competition watchdog gets $30m boost for supermarket probe
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will receive a $30 million funding boost to investigate misleading and deceptive pricing practices.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Negative gearing
Labor members want negative gearing changes in ambitious housing plan
Labor for Housing, a national group of members, wants Labor to adopt an 80 per cent homeownership target by 2040.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Federal election
Will Steven Miles be Albanese’s sacrificial anode? Labor hopes so
Feds beware: Miles has shamelessly thrown money at the cost of living and no-one has thanked him for it.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Queensland wipeout good for Labor’s federal election chances
The LNP small target strategy is politically effective. It’s on track to take out an unpopular Labor premier and, in the process, give a Labor prime minister a better chance of keeping his job.
- The AFR View
Albo keeps it in the family at the AFL commissioner’s lunch
You can’t buy a ticket to Aussie rules’ most exclusive grand final function, so there are few better tests of relevance than trying to score an invitation.
- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- Federal election
Labor, the Greens and the threat of minority government
Labor is struggling to keep everyone happy as the election nears, but courting both miners and environmentalists looks like a near-impossible task.
- Phillip Coorey
Negative gearing explodes | Coles’ and Woolies’ dodgy discounts | The corporate Power list
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony look at how the supermarket giants were accused of dodgy discounting, ask who will win the brawl over negative gearing, and examine the corporate Power list.
Labor won’t pursue negative gearing changes, Shorten predicts
The former Labor leader says he is sure the government won’t take changes to property investor tax breaks to the next election.
- Phillip Coorey
Australia’s 10 most powerful people in 2024
There are three new faces on the Power list – plus some big swings in the ranking.
- Tom McIlroy
The forces that shaped 2024’s list of Australia’s most powerful people
Someone wasn’t happy to be on this year’s Power list. But even Power listers have no say in the process.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Inflation makes or breaks this year’s Power list
The power rankings reveal the splintering of traditional political power in a two-party system that is emerging alongside the economic strains.
- The AFR View