April
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.
- Kylar Loussikian
March
‘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.
- Tom McIlroy
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.
- Julie Hare
December 2021
Chris Jordan avoids Senate contempt finding
Recriminations over the government’s gargantuan and hastily put together JobKeeper program haven’t entirely concluded.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
November 2021
- Opinion
- China relations
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.
- Richard McGregor
May 2021
- Analysis
- Australia's China challenge
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.
- Michael Smith
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’.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
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.
- James Curran
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.
- Aaron Patrick
October 2020
Chinese propaganda portrays a divided Australia, diplomat warns
DFAT's Secretary Frances Adamson says Beijing is showing Australia is intolerant and discriminatory.
- Andrew Tillett
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.
- Phillip Coorey
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.
- Tom Burton
August 2019
- Opinion
- Energy security
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.
- Phillip Coorey