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Marise Payne

August

WA senator Linda Reynolds has taken defamation action against Brittany Higgins.

‘Everything up in the air’: Higgins won’t front Reynolds defamation trial

Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins won’t take the witness stand in a high-profile defamation trial in Perth amid new concerns about her health.

  • Tom Rabe

May

Prime ministers Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi have forged a strong bond.

Wong warns on foreign interference after Indian spies expelled

Revelations Indian spies were asked to leave Australia in 2020 suggest Western intelligence agencies are unhappy about New Delhi’s espionage tactics.

  • Andrew Tillett and Emma Connors

April

Bondi Partners ringleader Joe Hockey.

Joe Hockey must be minting money

The former treasurer’s shop has added ex-defence minister Marise Payne and a Japanese diplomat to its roster.

  • Mark Di Stefano

November 2023

Business Council boss Bran Black is a former Liberal Party adviser.

BCA boss backs rival to Dutton’s pick for Liberal Senate spot

Bran Black, the former chief of staff to NSW ex-premier Dominic Perrottet, said his onetime colleague has an “inexhaustible work ethic”.

  • Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese meets with Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘New starting point’ depends on China’s actions

Australia is more relieved than jubilant that the trade war era has been called off. And Beijing is still ramping up pressure in the South China Sea.

  • The AFR View
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October 2023

Warren Mundine last week saod he would not seek a Senate seat to replace outgoing former minister Marise Payne.

Calls for Voice audit may put Mundine-linked firms in spotlight

Advocates for Indigenous constitutional recognition say contracts linked to the leading No campaigner should be included in any probe of government spending.

  • Tom McIlroy
Dave Sharma, the former Wentworth MP nominated this week.

Former Wentworth MP Dave Sharma chases Senate spot

Zed Seselja, who lost his Senate spot to independent David Pocock, has also nominated in a field of 10 candidates.

  • Tom McIlroy

September 2023

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi.

G20’s lack of cohesion complicates Australia’s China challenge

The tectonic global forces encouraging deglobalisation and decoupling, this is complicating the challenges for an Albanese government that rightly seeks in the overall national interest to manage China back behind a rules-based international system

  • The AFR View
Foreign Minister Marise Payne.

Mundine, Constance in the Senate mix as Payne retires

Former foreign minister and Australia’s first female defence minister Senator Marise Payne announced on Friday she would leave parliament at the end of the month, after 26 years in federal politics. 

  • Tom McIlroy
A pedestrian takes photographs of a flooded road following heavy rainstorms in Hong Kong on Friday.

Hong Kong’s heaviest rain in at least 140 years floods city streets

Torrential rain deluged Hong Kong on Friday leading to widespread flooding; Anthony Albanese backs Philippines in South China Sea dispute; Marise Payne will retire from politics. How the day unfolded.

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  • Campbell Kwan

July 2023

Former ministers and officials brace for robo-debt judgment day

Ex-ministers and senior officials involved with the failed robo-debt scheme face a raft of possible adverse findings when the royal commission reports on Friday.

  • Tom Burton and Tom McIlroy

May 2023

Hat in the ring: Former NSW transport minister Andrew Constance.

Andrew Constance leads NSW Senate race to be Jim Molan’s successor

The preselection battle has drawn six candidates in a wide open contest, with the moderate faction split.

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  • Samantha Hutchinson

December 2022

Former prime minister Scott Morrison will face questions on Wednesday over his role in the robodebt scheme.

Morrison faces robo-debt cabinet allegations

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears before the robo-debt commission Wednesday amid claims he misled cabinet over the legality of the scheme.

  • Tom Burton
James Renwick KC argued for cabinet confidentially to be waived ahead of Mr Morrison’s appearance at the robodebt royal commission next week.

Morrison seeks cabinet privilege waiver ahead of robodebt appearance

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seeking to waive cabinet confidentiality ahead of appearance before the robodebt royal commission next week.

  • Tom Burton

November 2022

Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will all claim success from their international meetings.

Labor leverages international momentum to domestic effect

Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen return to Australia confident of the government’s momentum. Now for the harder part: dealing with domestic energy prices.

  • Jennifer Hewett
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September 2022

Geelong president Craig Drummond says that when it comes to both silverware and the commercial spoils, Saturday’s AFL grand final is winner takes all.

‘It’s winner takes all’: Geelong president Drummond eyes a win

Geelong president and corporate leader Craig Drummond says that the commercial spoils of the AFL grand final are the same as the silverware - it’s winner takes all.

  • Gus McCubbing

July 2022

Foreign ministers Penny Wong and Wang Yi met in Bali last Friday

China offers a first step, but hostilities remain on both sides

Despite the meeting between China and Australia’s foreign ministers in Bali, the Labor government will largely continue the approach of the Morrison government towards China - minus the more excitable rhetoric.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Foreign Minister Penny Wong is among Anthony Albanese’s closest friends and confidants in parliament.

Foreign policy team is literally front and centre of this government

Scott Morrison shone the spotlight on China’s bullying. But Albanese, Wong and Marles have the temperament to build the response to it.

  • Andrew Tillett

June 2022

The appointment of former NSW state National Party leader John Barilaro to a newly created New York trade commissioner’s job is to be reviewed by NSW premier’s secretary Michael Coutts-Trotter.

‘Jobs for the boys’ is no longer acceptable

The uproar over the appointment of John Barilaro to a plum New York trade job reveals a higher standard is now being imposed on public-sector integrity.

  • Tom Burton

May 2022

One last horrah at Queenies for the 46th parliament’s female cabinet ministers.

Coalition sisterhood kicks back at Queenies

Spotted in a private dining room at Queenies on Sunday evening: almost every single female member of Scott Morrison’s now-dissolved cabinet.

  • Myriam Robin

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