September
‘The kingmaker seat’: The former Uber exec tasked with taking on the teals
Returning to Australia after almost a decade as an executive with Uber in Asia, Liberal candidate for Curtin Tom White says the ride-share giant helped shape his free market approach to politics.
- Tom Rabe
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
Clare O’Neil in housing policy hall of mirrors
Labor wholeheartedly adopted the First Home Buyer Guarantee Scheme upon winning office. And would go on to announce it many, many times.
- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- Federal election
From Beaconsfield to Bruce: Labor’s loss will be education’s gain
Bill Shorten will rival, if not supplant, Kim Beazley as the best prime minister Labor never had.
- Phillip Coorey
‘She’s done’: Sharaz, Higgins ‘mocked’ Reynolds over sick leave
Brittany Higgins and her partner mocked Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds after she took sick leave from parliament, a Perth court has heard.
- Tom Rabe
Feds launch takeover of dysfunctional NSW Liberal division
The NSW Liberal Party will be placed under control of party elders amid fears its ineptitude could cost Peter Dutton dearly at the federal election.
- Phillip Coorey
August
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Why Paul Keating is furious with Jim Chalmers
For the first time, the former Labor leader is slamming the Albanese government on economics rather than AUKUS. It’s all about the politics of aspiration.
- Michael Stutchbury
Higgins’ partner offered media pictures of alleged rape couch
The boyfriend of Brittany Higgins offered to send pictures of the couch she was allegedly raped on to a journalist, a Perth court has heard.
- Tom Rabe
Santos gala a gassy second chance for Albo
We regret to inform the federal Labor Party that Woodside is not the only gas major with a milestone birthday this year.
- Myriam Robin
‘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
Morrison feared ‘fatal outcome’ for Reynolds in Higgins saga
Scott Morrison told a court he saw Senator Linda Reynolds stressed during debate over Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, and worried it would kill her.
- Tom Rabe and Tom McIlroy
July
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
Liberals still want vindication on Brittany Higgins saga
Suggestions we need to understand how the Higgins allegations affected the last election are telling. But satisfaction is unlikely.
- Myriam Robin
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
Revealed: Turnbull’s Paris option to revive French subs deal
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull paved the way for Australia to renegotiate the French submarine contract when Labor came to power, but there was silence from the new government.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- Defence
Pezzullo bangs the war drums against placating an ‘imagined China’
The former Home Affairs secretary does not, however, present a philosophy of international relations that might form a basis for Australia’s position in the world.
- James Curran
What’s Peter Dutton got against David Crowe?
Midwinter Ball speeches are meant to be roasts, and we’d never suggest journalists are off-limits. But Dutton’s dig at Crowe is starting to form a pattern.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- AUKUS
AUKUS ‘moonshot’ may be a tragically expensive failure
It is alarming that both Coalition and Labor politicians fail to acknowledge the risk that Australia could be left with no submarine capability by the end of the 2030s.
- James Curran
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
‘A cruel joke’: Why AUKUS might leave Australia stranded
A group of defence experts says that the Albanese government is on course for a financial and strategic AUKUS disaster, in the final part of an exclusive series.
- James Curran
June
Curious case of the prime minister’s vanishing democracy speech
For a man of conviction, Anthony Albanese’s marquee speech about democratic values going missing is quite the coincidence.
- Updated
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Let’s not settle the nuclear question before debating it
Readers call for more debate and details about nuclear power; canvass the popularity of leaders; consider productivity in the construction industry; and call for more Chooks in the chook pen.