This Month
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
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
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
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
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
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
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
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
‘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 still keeps rarefied company
The former first bloke still has access to Virgin’s invitation-only Beyond lounge.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Federal election
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
- Opinion
- Tax reform
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
December 2023
Labor luminaries farewell ‘cherished’ MP Peta Murphy
Anthony Albanese and Julia Gillard were among mourners at a funeral service for MP Peta Murphy, who died of cancer.
- Andrew Tillett
The prime minister needs his mojo back
Voters want their prime minister to be of them, not like them. At the moment, they feel he is neither.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Disability
Labor’s bid to fix the NDIS rests on hope
A review of the NDIS has outlined the problems making it unsustainable. Bill Shorten says its recommendations is not about cutting support for those who need it but will improve results.
- Jennifer Hewett
Australia seeks to play good cop at climate summit
The COP28 climate summit has bowled up a plethora of pledges on renewable energy, health and agriculture, and Australia has signed up to all the biggies.
- Hans van Leeuwen
November 2023
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
On Israel, ex-PMs reveal what they really believe in
The position of seven former prime ministers on the war is a sign of where each stands compared to the parties they led.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
‘I’m above groupthink’: Why Keating snubbed the Israel statement
Paul Keating says the first draft of a statement on the Israel conflict eventually signed by all living prime ministers except him was too ‘sharp’, and anyway he had never been a co-signatory with other leaders despite being asked many times.
- Phillip Coorey
October 2023
US, Australia warn Israel over mounting civilian deaths in Gaza
The two countries have warned Tel Aviv that it risked losing the support of the international community because of the rising civilian death toll in Gaza.
- Phillip Coorey
September 2023
How Aussies are firing up the Voice debate in London
The ‘Yes’ campaign is targeting Australia House, the referendum’s largest polling station, and got some wattage from former PM Julia Gillard and a drag queen.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Australia spends less on Indigenous affairs than you think: study
The Lowitja Institute says only 6 per cent of the federal budget is spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
- Tom McIlroy