March
Stadium cost blowout latest threat to newest AFL team
The forecast costs were released in an independent report by the Tasmanian Planning Commission, which will decide whether the project should go ahead.
January
Banks would face new loan regime under Coalition amid ESG pushback
Peter Dutton says bankers on multimillion-dollar pay packets who restrict lending on environmental grounds are out of step with ordinary Australians.
‘Swayed by extremist groups’: Abetz slams bank in ESG stoush
A dispute over ESG requirements has emerged in Tasmania after a forestry company claimed its financing from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank was knocked back on environmental concerns.
April 2024
Christopher Pyne emerges as Hanwha’s man in Canberra
The Korean conglomerate has lobbed a $1 billion bid for ASX-listed Austal. The local shipbuilder has rejected the offer, saying it won’t be approved.
March 2024
‘Within a whisker’: Tasmania looks headed for minority government
Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he will deliver more cost-of-living relief to households in the first 100 days of a re-elected Liberal government, as candidates chase votes for Saturday’s state election.
January 2022
Pentecostal institution wins promotion to ‘university college’
A Pentecostal college in Sydney’s Parramatta has won the right to be named a university college.
December 2021
Chris Jordan avoids Senate contempt finding
Recriminations over the government’s gargantuan and hastily put together JobKeeper program haven’t entirely concluded.
November 2021
Reset relations with Chinese Australians
Australia’s diverse Chinese community, caught in the crossfire of a policy transition as China changes under Xi Jinping, should not be treated as a monolith with suspect loyalties.
May 2021
Every day is a new low point with China
Relations will never go back to where they were. But a more balanced China debate will help to ensure hostilities do not get any worse.
March 2021
Eric Abetz accused of shaming Brittany Higgins, defending Porter
Tasmanian Liberal MP Sue Hickey has accused Senator Eric Abetz of ‘slut-shaming’ Brittany Higgins and suggesting that she could have put national security at risk by getting ‘disgustingly drunk’.
Answer Xi’s authoritarianism with Australia’s liberalism
China will find it tough to sell its aggressive brand of exceptionalism against a more inclusive Australia. It’s Scott Morrison’s best move.
November 2020
Among Trump's Australians, a quiet sense of satisfaction
A mass gathering of Australian conservatives heard that Donald Trump's legacy will last long beyond his presidency.
October 2020
Chinese propaganda portrays a divided Australia, diplomat warns
DFAT's Secretary Frances Adamson says Beijing is showing Australia is intolerant and discriminatory.
Coalition's 'pointless machismo' on China hurts coal exports: CFMEU
'Undiplomatic, reckless and sometimes bizarre' attacks on China by Coalition MPs pose a grave threat to coal exports, the CFMEU says.
June 2020
Hunt bows to backbench, delays vaping import ban
Health minister Greg Hunt has bowed to a back bench push against his import ban on nicotine vaping, postponing the e-cigarette ban for six months.
August 2019
Business, conservatives no longer need each other
Business likes the Coalition's pro-growth policies -- but not the social conservatism that seems out of step with their own work forces.