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Zed Seselja

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

October 2023

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

June 2022

David Pocock

Wallabies great David Pocock wins ACT Senate seat

Pocock defeated Liberal Zed Seselja in an historic victory, ending the major party stranglehold on ACT Senate representation.

  • Tom McIlroy

May 2022

ACT Senate candidate, former Wallaby flanker, David Pocock played with the ACT Brumbies and is well known in Canberra.

Pledge to cut public service threatens Senate balance

The Coalition’s ability to control the Senate is under threat after it pledged to cut the public services by $2.7 billion, opening the door for former Wallaby flanker David Pocock to win a Canberra Senate seat.

  • Tom Burton

April 2022

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare reviews a Chinese honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2019.

Options narrow as China gains ground in Pacific

Australia has been unable to stop the Solomon Islands signing a security pact with China. The US is just as alarmed, but also with little impact. What comes now?

  • Jennifer Hewett
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January 2022

n this photo provided by the New Zealand defence force, a crew member from an Orion aircraft inspects an area of Tonga with heavy ash fall from the volcanic eruption.

Tsunami-hit Tonga islands suffered ‘catastrophic’ damage

Tonga police have told the New Zealand High Commission that the confirmed death toll stands at two, but with communications in the South Pacific island nation cut, the true extent of casualties was not clear.

  • Jane Wardell, Praveen Menon and Kirsty Needham

September 2021

ACT chief minister Andrew Barr has blamed NSW as he extended Canberra’s lockdown for another month.

Canberra’s ‘one-week’ lockdown now nine weeks and counting

The ACT Labor government has blamed NSW after the territory extended its lockdown for another four weeks and granted only a minuscule relaxation of restrictions.

  • Phillip Coorey

December 2020

Dan Tehan has moved to the trade portfolio and the front line in the dispute with China.

Tehan joins the front line in the dispute with China

Dan Tehan will be in the thick of the battle with China after he was shifted to the trade portfolio in a minimalist cabinet reshuffle.

  • Phillip Coorey

June 2020

In January, CBA will allow its iPhone carrying customers to load their CBA credit and debit cards into Apple Pay, the technology giant's digital wallet.

Credit and debit card spending surging

The pandemic may be encouraging the use of plastic, but tight restrictions in the ACT has kept consumer spending below where it was this time last year.

  • Matthew Cranston

December 2019

Senator Zed Seselja said a response to the report on charities and terrorism could come next year.

Coalition stalls on stamping out terrorism-charity links

Experts don't understand why, despite its tough rhetoric on law and order, the Coalition is taking so long to stop terrorists exploiting charities.

  • Aaron Patrick

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