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In the upcoming election campaign, Peter Dutton will find fertile ground in immigration and security issues.

Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack

The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?

  • Paul Sakkal

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Professor Megan Davis receives an AC award on Australia Day.

Hugs and tears as Voice architect receives honour after ‘tumultuous’ year

Professor Megan Davis was at her mother’s housing commission home in south-east Queensland when she got the call she would receive the highest Order of Australia award.

  • Olivia Ireland
The Captain Cook statue in St Kilda was vandalised in 2018, and in 2024 was severed from its plinth entirely.

Albanese’s greatest election threat isn’t Dutton. It’s the woke left

Aside from the odd snarl, the PM isn’t taking the Coalition’s bait. But just because he refuses to take the bait doesn’t mean his Labor colleagues won’t.

  • Gary Newman
A majority of Australians now support Australia Day remaining on January 26, a change from two years ago.

Change the date? No, say an increasing majority of Australians

Australians have strongly backed January 26 as the national day after years of argument about changing the date, lifting support to a clear majority.

  • David Crowe and Olivia Ireland
Warren Mundine, left, has won support from Tony Abbott and Jacinta Price.

Anti-Voice band back together as Price, Abbott back Warren Mundine for key seat

The one-time Labor Party president turned anti-Voice campaigner is running in one of the few seats that voted “yes” for the Indigenous body.

  • Paul Sakkal
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton during a press conference in July, flanked by the Australian flag.

Indigenous flag an easy target for Dutton when he’s kicking down

The opposition leader’s decision to start a debate about the Indigenous flag comes just as he is about to reveal the cost of his nuclear policy. That timing is revealing.

  • David Crowe
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Peter Dutton singled out Sydney University and its boss Mark Scott as being responsible for the housing crisis.

Dutton’s suddenly electable, but here’s why he’ll struggle to become PM

Pollsters believe the Albanese government’s in trouble. But the Coalition must still defy history, and overcome a significant seat deficit, to win power.

  • Peter Hartcher
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe in the halls of Parliament House this morning.

It’s always been risky to bellow from the press gallery, Lidia

The last time anyone shouted from the press gallery, an abject apology was required to save the offender from trial by parliament. What now for Lidia Thorpe?

  • Tony Wright
Queensland Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry board members Ivan Ingram, Vonda Malone, chairperson Joshua Creamer, Cheryl Buchanan, and Roslyn Atkinson AO.

Truth-telling inquiry in limbo after minister cancels meeting

The future of a truth-telling inquiry is in limbo after the Queensland government postponed plans to discuss the Path to Treaty process.

  • Fraser Barton
Kim Carr’s three-decade stint in Parliament came to an end in 2022.

Albanese’s small-target strategy, Voice ‘disaster’ risk Labor’s future: party elder

Kim Carr has joined other Labor luminaries in warning about the party’s prospects but does not want it to follow the Greens into “woke” policies.

  • Paul Sakkal

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