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An artist’s impression of the Macquarie Point Stadium in Hobart.

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

Peter Dutton says one of the core strengths of a Coalition government would be law and order.

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.

Former senator Eric Abetz.

‘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

Hanwha acquired control of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering this year.

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

Labor’s Rebecca White and the Liberals Jeremy Rockliff.

‘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.

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January 2022

Alphacrucis has become Australia’s fourth university college.

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

Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan’s public interest immunity claim was rejected by the Senate.

Chris Jordan avoids Senate contempt finding

Recriminations over the government’s gargantuan and hastily put together JobKeeper program haven’t entirely concluded.

November 2021

Australia’s Chinese community are exceptionally diverse.

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

The China debate took its darkest turn last month when talk of a possible war, if Beijing invaded Taiwan, started coming out of Canberra.

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 on Wednesday denied claims he slut-shamed Brittany Higgins.

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’.

Steering a course through the Australia-China relationship is becoming increasingly difficult for Scott Morrison.

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

A media pass for the CPAC event.

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

DFAT Secretary Frances Adamson says China wants to portray Australia as divided, intolerant.

Chinese propaganda portrays a divided Australia, diplomat warns

DFAT's Secretary Frances Adamson says Beijing is showing Australia is intolerant and discriminatory.

CFMEU's Tony Maher says outspoken Coalition MPs are posing a grave threat to coal exports to China.

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

Health Minister Greg Hunt faces a growing backlash over an import ban on vaping liquids.

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.

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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.

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