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October

Peter Dutton and Gina Rinehart at the party in the Pilbara.

Gina Rinehart buys Peter Dutton’s table for Perth party

The list of things the opposition leader has to be thankful for Rinehart keeps getting longer.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Jordan Peterson

Guilt-mongers and hedonists: Jordan Peterson rails against society

Jordan Peterson delivered his speech via video link and did not attend a high-powered dinner on Monday night at the Opera House.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Jordan Peterson.

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
Liz Truss speaking to the AFR on Thursday

What Tony Abbott taught Liz Truss about handling illegal immigrants

Attempts by the previous British government to thwart people smuggling by deporting illegal immigrants to Rwanda was based on advice by Tony Abbott

  • Phillip Coorey
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The national representative body of the Australian Jewish community calls for the return of hostages.

Albanese has failed on antisemitism: Howard

Two former Liberal prime ministers and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have accused the Albanese government of allowing antisemitism to fester.

  • Phillip Coorey

September

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‘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
Former prime minister Scott Morrison.

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
Simon Hartley, 59, called time on his iconic Melbourne restaurant Becco on Friday.

‘Beautiful chaos’: Iconic Melbourne power diner owner calls time

Simon Hartley has hosted every prime minister since Gough Whitlam at his CBD restaurant Becco. But on Friday, he held the last supper.

  • Gus McCubbing
Offensive tags and artwork in Sydney University’s graffiti tunnel have promoted antisemitism and Jewish genocide say two dozen staff in a complaint to SafeWork NSW

Why Sydney Uni vice chancellor Mark Scott is in the firing line

Street art in Sydney University’s famed graffiti tunnel was exhibit A as Jewish groups stepped up their campaign to unseat the high-profile vice chancellor.

  • Tom Burton
Bill Shorten with wife Chloe and daughter Clementine after anonuncing his retirement.

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
Peter Dutton has put the broom through the NSW Liberal Party.

NSW Libs ‘robbed Abbott in 2010’, now Dutton wants to avoid a repeat

Frustrations with the state Liberal Party division stem back to a belief it cost Tony Abbott victory in 2010.

  • Phillip Coorey

August

Sky News presenter Peta Credlin with her husband Brian Loughnane at Government House.

Vengeful Peta Credlin and Tony Abbott take on NSW moderates

Brian Loughnane is reviewing the NSW division while his wife Peta Credlin and her ex-boss Tony Abbott call for its takeover.

  • Myriam Robin
Woodside boss Meg O’Neill (left) Resources Minister Madeleine King at the Australian Energy Producers conference in Perth in May.

Woodside hires ScoMo’s right hand

Amid a furore about who came to its party, the energy giant recently hired a Liberal power player as an external consultant.

  • Mark Di Stefano

July

Governor-General Sam Mostyn, centre, and Anthony Albanese with the new ministerial team after they were sworn in.

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
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sought to benefit from a dominant Labor base at the state level when he came to power – the premiers had ideas of their own.

NSW Labor formally backs Palestine state ‘as priority’

NSW Labor has sent a message to its counterparts in Canberra, passing a motion demanding the federal government recognise Palestinian statehood.

  • Alex Mitchell and Samantha Lock
Tony Abbott speaking at the Kyiv Security Forum in Ukraine last year.

Trump could be ‘a loser’ if he abandons Ukraine, says Tony Abbott

The former prime minister reckons that Vladimir Putin owes the families of MH17 victims an apology and compensation for the “atrocity”.

  • Andrew Tillett

June

Then-opposition leader Tony Abbott during the 2010 election campaign.

Peter Dutton could do an Abbott with time, if not God, on his side

With his nuclear power policy threatening inner-city seats, the opposition leader’s likely path to power is over two elections.

  • Aaron Patrick
Peter Dutton is proposing seven nuclear plants in Coalition electorates.

End the nuclear ban. Don’t stop renewables

There is a case for considering zero emissions nuclear power but as part of a technology-neutral energy approach to generating reliable baseload power and firmed wind and solar generation.

  • The AFR View
Australian journalist Cheng Lei is “flanked” by two Chinese government officials during a signing ceremony at Parliament House on Monday.

Albanese ‘renews and revitalises’ ties with a very different China

It remains in Australia’s national interest to deepen both economic and diplomatic ties with our major trade partner, and continue to welcome China’s rise behind a rules-based order.

  • The AFR View

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