Bill Shorten
Sex toys, taxidermy and Pauline Hanson: Inside Shorten’s rogue campaign
The NDIS minister is using unusual tactics in a bid to save $1 billion – and they’re starting to catch the attention of his Cabinet colleagues.
- by Shane Wright
Latest
CBD feels the love at the Midwinter Ball
Business leaders, lobbyists, media executives and actors have descended on Canberra for a night of shameless networking … sorry, raising money for charity.
- by Stephen Brook
Albanese says he has shown ‘strength in restraint’ by not expelling rogue senator
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after senior minister Bill Shorten extended an olive branch to Payman, saying she could come back into the fold later.
- by Paul Sakkal and Josefine Ganko
Delay in NDIS vote will cost $1 billion: Shorten
The Greens and Liberals joined forces in parliament on Monday to postpone the vote on the overhaul until at least August.
- by David Crowe
Exclusive
Disability
Shorten asks states to hand over lists of criminals getting NDIS money
Australia’s national disability scheme is scrambling to get the names of sex predators, violent offenders and other serious criminals receiving financial support.
- by Chris Vedelago
Russian friendly nations join Australia in calling for ‘lasting peace in Ukraine’
Eighty countries used a peace summit in Switzerland to call for the territorial integrity of Ukraine to be the basis for any future agreement to end Russia’s two-year war.
- by Rob Harris
Top public servant gets 20 per cent pay rise to $710,000
Director of Public Prosecutions Raelene Sharp, KC, received a pay rise after Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus wrote to the independent Remuneration Tribunal to assist in its review of the pay packet.
- by Olivia Ireland
Opinion
Political leadership
So Bill Shorten’s speechwriter earns $310,000 a year. Nothing to see here
It’s not fashionable to say so, but people who work for ministers generally work very hard, with unsociable hours and long stints away from home.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Analysis
Political leadership
The Paris paradox: Why Albanese can’t send Shorten to France just yet
For months, the chatter about Bill Shorten being the next ambassador to France has bubbled up and then deflated like an old souffle. But it refuses to go away.
- by James Massola
No Paris plan for Shorten
The NDIS minister uses his schoolboy French to rule out the rumours of a diplomatic posting to Paris.
Opinion
Letters
Explicit excellence shows value of traditional ways
Explicit teaching is now being recognised, as it should always have, as the most effective learning method for the vast majority of students.
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