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Jodi McKay

April

Narendra Modi on stage with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney in May last year.

Macquarie, ANZ and Canva CEOs help power Australia’s India push

Governments hope to prevent another false dawn in bilateral trade and investment by getting business to work on policy.

  • James Eyers

February 2023

Tony Manze is one of the 800,000 of Australians set to come off a fixed-rate mortgage. But he says his customers are feeling the pinch too.

Cafe owner says squeezed customers are paying with 30-year-old notes

Sydney café owner Tony Franze says customers have started buying coffees with decades-old banknotes as households feel the pinch.

  • Gus McCubbing

February 2022

Outgoing Bega MP Andrew Constance with Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs on Saturday. The Liberals suffered a primary swing of more than 13 per cent in the seat.

Big swings in Bega threaten a not-so-happy Gilmore

Scott Morrison will hope voters, having vented in Bega, will come back to the Liberals in Gilmore at the federal election.

  • Phillip Coorey
Premier Dominic Perrottet and Treasurer Matt Kean at a press conference following Friday’s CBD Summit.

Super Saturday makes Perrottet the canary in the coal mine

Similarities in style between Premier Dominic Perrottet and Scott Morrison in handling the pandemic make super-Saturday more than about NSW.

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  • Phillip Coorey
Dominic Perrottet said voters wanted a focus on cost-of-living issues, not discrimination laws.

Perrottet faces super Saturday byelection test

Premier Dominic Perrottet distanced himself from Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the last day of campaigning ahead of the super Saturday of four byelections in NSW.

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  • Tom McIlroy
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December 2021

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet on Sunday.

Perrottet stamps authority with sweeping cabinet reshuffle

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has put nine first-time ministers into cabinet and added three portfolios: Cities; Science, Innovation and Technology; and Homes.

  • Edmund Tadros

June 2021

Chris Minns has been named NSW Labor’s new leader.

Minns to lead NSW Labor after Daley bows out

Chris Minns’ elevation comes after Jodi McKay resigned her leadership following a 7 per cent swing against Labor in the Upper Hunter byelection.

  • Michael Read
NSW Labor MP Chris Minns: hoping to avoid a ballot.

It’s not just the state budget that has Labor avoiding a ballot

The ballot that saw Jodi McKay elected cost around $50,000 in 2019. It’s money the party can ill afford.

  • Myriam Robin

May 2021

NSW Labor leadership hopeful, Chris Minns.

Federal Labor tells NSW to avoid leadership battle

NSW Labor MP Chris Minns has officially entered the leadership race as federal colleagues tell the NSW branch to avoid a drawn-out contest.

  • Finbar O'Mallon
Former NSW opposition leader Michael Daley on Sunday announcing his candidacy as NSW Labor leader.

Daley to stand for NSW Labor leadership

Michael Daley’s decision to stand for the NSW Labor leadership sets up a showdown for the job with rival Chris Minns.

NSW Labor MP Jodi McKay has been facing pressure to resign since the party’s result at the state byelection.

NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay resigns ‘for unity’

Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has quit to help “heal” the NSW Labor Party in the wake of last weekend’s Upper Hunter byelection.

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  • Finbar O'Mallon
Labor’s Chris Minns has quit the frontbench in protest over a dirt file on him being leaked.

NSW Labor leadership hopeful counts numbers

One of NSW Labor’s potential leadership contenders is contacting colleagues to consider a leadership tilt as he leaves the frontbench.

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  • Finbar O'Mallon
NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay says no one has challenged her in the wake of the “terrible” weekend byelection.

NSW Labor leader digs in as shadow treasurer quits

NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay says no one has challenged her as leader in the wake of Labor’s ‘terrible result’ in a state byelection.

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  • Finbar O'Mallon
Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon says the NSW byelection result should serve as a “wake-up call” for federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese, pictured.

Labor is split on tax cuts and energy

Federal Labor is sharply divided over income tax and energy policy, while NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay has been told to resign or be pushed.

  • Phillip Coorey
Labor leader Jodi McKay.

Alarm bells ring over Labor base

Potentially months out from a federal election, Opposition MPs say the loss in the weekend’s state byelection should prompt soul-searching inside the party.

  • Tom McIlroy and Finbar O'Mallon
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From the Gallery: Upper Hunter by election. 

Upper Hunter surfaces federal Labor’s political challenges

The byelection fallout leaves federal Labor in the weak position of needing to somehow resolve the internal culture war between its traditional blue-collar base and inner-city progressives.

  • The AFR View
Gladys Berejiklian.

The Coalition peels away the high-vis vote from Labor

Scott Morrison will be just as relieved as Gladys Berejiklian after Labor’s disastrous showing at the Upper Hunter byelection.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Nationals leader John Barilaro with winning Upper Hunter candidate David Layzell.

Upper Hunter byelection result sends fear through federal Labor

At first blush, Saturday’s result was just another COVID-19 election in which the voters opted for stability. But that doesn’t mean there are not other interpretations.

  • Phillip Coorey
Premier Gladys Berejiklian bumps elbows with Nationals candidate Dave Layzell.

Nationals claim ‘historic’ win in Upper Hunter

The NSW Nationals held the state seat of the Upper Hunter, a result Premier Gladys Berejiklian said two months ago would require a ‘miracle’.

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  • Finbar O'Mallon
NSW Labor has been hit by a ransomware attack.

Police called as NSW Labor hit by cyber raid

The hackers are threatening to release information including screenshots of passports, driving licences and employment contracts.

  • Ronald Mizen and Max Mason

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