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Australia’s budget numbers are increasingly a mirage as billions in spending are labelled as ‘investments’ to improve the fiscal optics.

Inside Canberra’s hidden $180b spending boom

Australia’s budget numbers are increasingly a mirage as billions in spending are labelled as ‘investments’ to improve the fiscal optics.

  • Michael Read

October

The RAAF Base Scherger, near Weipa on the Cape York Peninsula, is being upgraded.

The map that Canberra doesn’t want you to see

Australia’s military integration with the US proceeds apace, but is the Albanese government coming clean on the risks?

  • James Curran
Man of the people Anthony Albanese at a Bulldogs game in 2023.

Has everyman Albo reached the limit of his talents?

Anthony Albanese wanted to appeal to voters beset with “conflict fatigue”. Now they are unconvinced that he is fighting for them.

  • Shaun Carney

September

Former prime minister Scott Morrison.

ScoMo’s new private office may need new private toilet

The former prime minister is lining up his office in Sydney’s CBD.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets Minerals Council of Australia CEO Tania Constable and Glencore head of coal Earl Melamed at a parliamentary dinner on Monday night.

Why Australia’s miners are so alarmed by Albanese

The powerhouse industry is aghast at the government’s policies on industrial relations and environmental changes and has broken diplomatic cover to say so.

  • Jennifer Hewett
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Labor’s 1994 national conference in Hobart passed the rule change.

Labor celebrates gender equality milestone

Women in the ALP caucus will this week celebrate the 30th anniversary of a landmark vote to enshrine gender quotas in party rules for the first time.

  • Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten at the ALP confference

With a half-smile, Bill Shorten bows out of politics on his terms

The former federal Labor leader has no regrets about calling it quits to become a university vice chancellor.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Peter Dutton has put the broom through the NSW Liberal Party.

NSW Libs ‘robbed Abbott in 2010’, now Dutton wants to avoid a repeat

Frustrations with the state Liberal Party division stem back to a belief it cost Tony Abbott victory in 2010.

  • Phillip Coorey

August

Australia can start marketing wine in China again after tariffs were removed this year.

High-level dialogue shows China chill is ending

The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.

  • Craig Emerson

July

Governor-General Sam Mostyn, centre, and Anthony Albanese with the new ministerial team after they were sworn in.

Revolving door of PMs embarrassed Australia: Albanese

Anthony Albanese has acknowledged Labor’s contribution to the chaos that blighted Australian politics for almost two decades.

  • Phillip Coorey
Senators Jacqui Lambie and Pauline Hanson voted against the Ensuring Integrity Bill.

It’s not just Labor that let the CFMEU off the leash

Jacqui Lambie, Pauline Hanson and some independents have played a role in enabling the militant union.

  • Phillip Coorey

June

Gender equality campaigners need to do more to get young men on board, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz says.

Director urges equality advocates to leave their echo chamber

True gender equality benefits men as well as women, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz says, but advocates need to convince boys of that or risk going backwards.

  • Hannah Wootton
South Australian Treasurer Stephen Mullighan.

Winners and losers in South Australia’s budget

About one in four households will share in a $51.5 million one-off cash payment over the next three weeks, with low-income households getting the $243.90 bonus.

  • Simon Evans

May

Angela Karl, a former UBS banker specialising in energy and utilities deals, landed at HMC this year after an 11-year stint at QIC.

HMC Capital lobs bid for Symphony Infrastructure Partners

Sources say it is going toe-to-toe with a handful of infrastructure investors in the auction’s second-stage.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Immigration is again poised to play a lead role, not because the boats are coming, but after Peter Dutton used his budget address-in-reply to conflate it with the housing crisis.

Both sides are pushing buttons on migration, one is being more subtle

Migration long ago became a lazy method, adopted by both sides of politics, to generate growth in the absence of any reform or productivity agenda,

  • Phillip Coorey
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HMC Capital’s David Di Pilla and former prime minister Julia Gillard have teamed up to launch a $2 billion Energy Transition Fund.

‘True energy impact’: Di Pilla defies gloom, appoints Gillard to $2b fund

The ASX-listed HMC Capital is banking on plenty of investor interest to defy a gloomy market outlook on the transition to clean energy for its latest vehicle.

  • Ben Potter

March

When the minister met the ‘mischievous’: What Wong said to Curran

Foreign Minister Penny Wong parried with James Curran at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit this week. This is an edited transcript of that discussion.

February

Tim Mathieson is still entitled to use Virgin’s Beyond lounge.

Tim Mathieson still keeps rarefied company

The former first bloke still has access to Virgin’s invitation-only Beyond lounge.

  • Myriam Robin

Why the PM looks confident for the first time in months

The Labor government is as buoyed by its tax and industrial relations policies as the business community is aghast at the impact. But who’s listening?

  • Jennifer Hewett

January

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese retreats on Labor’s own tax reform history.

Albanese slams door on Labor’s own tax aspirations

Labor and the Coalition once wanted to cut the top rate of tax to 40 per cent and scrap the 37 per cent bracket. That seems unimaginable now.

  • Robert Carling

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