December 2024
Labor to have a swing at Hinkler after Pitt calls it quits
The unpopularity of federal Labor in Queensland makes it unlikely it will pick up Keith Pitt’s seat of Hinkler, around Bundaberg.
- Phillip Coorey
July 2024
Roaring Keith! Ex-mining minister buys booming coal stocks
Australian mining stocks are ripping, and former LNP federal resources minister Keith Pitt has added three mines to his investment properties.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Exclusive
- Energy
LNP to debate nuclear despite ‘intriguing’ omission
The LNP’s Queensland base will be “white-hot angry” if convention doesn’t debate nuclear energy, senior federal MP warns.
- James Hall
June 2024
Nuclear to wreak ‘catastrophic damage’ on renewable energy
Clean investor groups say the Coalition’s scheme will take too long, cost too much, and is incompatible with timely and cost-efficient energy transition.
- Elouise Fowler
April 2024
D’Ambrosio gas claim debunked after outburst against Labor’s King
In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.
- Jacob Greber and Gus McCubbing
February 2024
Gina Rinehart goes asking for thanks at Sky News Bali
Senior politicians have been struck with disclosure amnesia around the mining billionaire’s lavish parties. Lucky there’s video!
- Mark Di Stefano
It’s Gina Rinehart’s party, I’ll fly if I want to
Questions take off into the flights politicians took around Gina Rinehart’s National Mining Day, including one MP’s “parliamentary business” justification.
- Mark Di Stefano
November 2023
Gina Rinehart gets a mid-air boot licking
Australia’s richest person lamented the lack of thanks government gives to the mining industry. One Coalition MP was happy to fix that.
- Mark Di Stefano
Gina Rinehart handholds Peter Dutton at her neon bush doof
The opposition leader was the star guest alongside Australia’s richest woman at Vegas in the Pilbara.
- Mark Di Stefano
August 2023
Rare earths boom turns a pile of ‘worthless’ sand into $1.3b
Three decades ago, somebody decided to hoard a worthless pile of sand. Now it’s a billion-dollar stockpile that will help wean Australia off Chinese rare earths.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
The $7b fund for projects commercial lenders won’t back
Some of the projects the federal government’s Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is funding have raised eyebrows.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
February 2023
Morrison’s decision to kill PEP-11 offshore gas project in doubt
Scott Morrison’s controversial pre-election decision to kill off plans to explore for gas off Sydney and Newcastle is on track to be overturned after energy companies and the Commonwealth agreed to settle the issue.
- Samantha Hutchinson
January 2023
- Investigation
- Due diligence
‘Fake coal’ test: how to get away with manipulating data
It has emerged no regulator is watching over coal certification, even after one lab confessed to switching results for the multibillion-dollar export industry.
- Liam Walsh
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Liberal Party PTSD has changed the climate debate
A climate-wary Coalition is betting on an economic downturn to turn Australians against a policy seen as the return of an economy-wide carbon price.
- Aaron Patrick
December 2022
‘This just isn’t right’: Nats MP quits party over Voice stance
Andrew Gee’s decision to defect to the crossbench over the National Party’s refusal to back an Indigenous Voice to parliament has highlighted tensions within the Coalition.
- Georgie Moore
November 2022
Bell report reveals Morrison’s ‘cult of secrecy’ and sixth portfolio bid
Anthony Albanese hasn’t ruled out a parliamentary censure of Scott Morrison over his predecessor’s multiple ministries.
- Andrew Tillett
Blindsided bureaucrats sought outside legal advice on ghost portfolios
The highly unusual move to seek outside counsel indicates that bureaucrats were alarmed at Scott Morrison’s secret move to take over the energy minister’s role.
- Jacob Greber
August 2022
The Boundless political capital of Mike Cannon-Brookes
Cannon-Brookes’ entity Boundless Earth is at some risk of disqualifying itself from charity status over its political donations.
- Joe Aston
Atlassian co-founder’s political donation to former LNP minister
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes’ $1.5 billion green fund, Boundless Earth, donated to the political campaign of Bundaberg Mayor Jack Dempsey in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat resources minister Keith Pitt.
- Mark Ludlow
- Opinion
- Morrison portfolio saga
The secret ministries and Scott Morrison’s God connection
Only the former PM knows what motivated him to ghost so many of his colleagues’ roles. But it is hard to ignore the place of religion in his character.
- Andrew Clark