Today
- Exclusive
- Government grants
Coalition, Labor both promised $50m to this business. No one knows why
During the last election the major parties pledged funds to a run-down Hobart zinc smelter without proper advice. This is why it matters.
- Ronald Mizen
This Month
Bennelong restaurant preps for Jordan Peterson and ex-prime ministers
Dining with the popular online conservative sends a signal about the current state of Liberal party ideas.
- Mark Di Stefano
Broken planning system slows home approvals
Readers’ letters on how to speed up housing starts; subcontractors and developers; Anthony Albanese’s home purchase; gas for Japan; climate migration; and Scott Morrison’s space job.
Morrison heads new space job as global rocket industry heats up
Scott Morrison will be the overseas face of Space Centre Australia, charged with urging Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other firms to launch their rockets from Australia.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Desperate Labor resorts to the ‘wedgislation’ it used to mock
This government is still in its first term yet is deploying end-of-days tactics – an observation not lost in an anxious backbench.
- Phillip Coorey
- Exclusive
- Vocational training
Taxpayers paid McDonald’s $72m to train its staff
McDonald’s Australia and its franchisees were the biggest beneficiaries of the Coalition’s $5.8 billion trainee and apprenticeship wage subsidy, documents show.
- Ronald Mizen
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