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John Pesutto, Brad Battin and Moira Deeming

Time to pay the Deeming debt and focus on the job of opposition

If the Liberal Party wants to move towards the voters it seeks to represent it may need to open its wallet.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Mary Doyle after she won the seat of Aston. She was likely to hold her seat at the 2025 election.

‘Finding new ways to fail’: Liberals set to lose seats to Labor in Melbourne

Labor had been expected to give up ground in Victoria at the federal election. Instead, it was poised to win Deakin, Aston and Menzies in a devastating result for the Liberals.

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Michael Sukkar.

Numbers man: What Liberal powerbroker Michael Sukkar really believes

He’s an influential Liberal conservative fighting for his political life in the nation’s most marginal seat. How deep does Michael Sukkar’s conservatism run and how does religion guide his politics?

  • Melissa Fyfe
Hamer joins in on a marking competition at Glenferrie Oval.

From a barbecue shelter to 10-court stadium, sport clubs in marginal seats are hustling for election cash

Politics is the last thing most local sports clubs worry about – except at election time, when much-needed funding for facilities is up for grabs.

  • Roy Ward and Rachael Dexter
Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrive for for Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 22 August 2024. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Ballooning NDIS ‘coming under control’, but key reforms in flux

The government is not trying to tighten NDIS eligibility, but says its clean-up of the huge disability program is yielding results.

  • Paul Sakkal
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke react after the Coalition’s attempt to silence Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.

Dreyfus blasts ‘disgusting’ opposition attempt to gag him on antisemitism

Dreyfus, the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors, said: “I do not need the leader of the opposition or any of those opposite to tell me what antisemitism is, or how seriously I should take it.”

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Bill Shorten will leave politics on Monday.

More than half a million workers earn income from NDIS, Shorten says in parting shot at critics

Bill Shorten has hailed the NDIS jobs boom as an achievement as big as Medicare. But economists say it might be a drain on the economy and the federal budget.

  • Paul Sakkal
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has likened the current economic environment to the Whitlam era.

Dutton has been quiet this summer. Here’s what the Liberals are focused on

The opposition leader will have to choose between the ambitions of four of his most senior MPs, who all want to be foreign affairs minister in a Liberal government.

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While the number of approvals was 3.2 per cent higher in November compared to the same time in 2023, it remained at half the level between 2015 and 2019.

Crunch in building approvals sounds warning for Australia’s housing crisis

The prime minister defended his plan to deliver more than a million houses, saying the overall trend in approvals was upward.

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Sussan Ley and Michael Sukkar have both claimed Labor are allowing yoga teachers to enter Australia while denying entry to tradies.

Coalition stretches facts in yoga workers housing row

A Coalition claim about an influx of foreign yoga teachers has been debunked by official figures.

  • David Crowe

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