February
Former Nats MP to be appointed as Vatican ambassador
Labor is poised to name Keith Pitt to a plum diplomatic post in Rome, in a shock appointment ahead of the federal election.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 2023
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.