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A new Labor attack ad features high-profile Liberals claiming Peter Dutton opposes WA’s GST deal.

Labor attack ad claims Dutton won’t support WA’s $36.5b GST share

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited WA as his Labor government released an attack ad claiming Peter Dutton and the Coalition don’t support the state’s GST deal.

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Ken Wyatt in his study surrounded by “native welfare” files. Spanning a century, they show in painful detail how cruel policies affected four generations of his family.

Ken Wyatt is not known for anger. But when he read his family’s government files ...

The former minister for Indigenous Australians thought he knew everything about the heartache of his people. Then he read about the treatment of his forebears.

  • Victoria Laurie

The May 25 Edition

The Unsatisfactory Spouses Club | Ken Wyatt’s stolen generations discovery | The most photographed pool on our most famous beach

The commission says governments have not grasped the scale of the changes required to deliver on their commitment.

This deal was meant to be a game-changer for Indigenous people. It hasn’t moved the dial

A blistering Productivity Commission review says governments have not delivered on their landmark 2020 agreement to transform the way public servants and politicians work with Indigenous Australians.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Jack Latimore
Former NSW Premier Bob Carr and former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks have backed in calls for an Indigenous person to be appointed governor general for the first time.

Former Labor premiers back Indigenous governor-general as speculation mounts over PM’s pick

Former Labor premiers Bob Carr and Steve Bracks have thrown their support behind an Indigenous governor-general, while former Queensland premier Peter Beattie has suggested that could be divisive, so soon after the Voice referendum.

  • Lisa Visentin
Ken Wyatt spoke about his decision to resign from the Liberal Party.

Voice question should have been split, Wyatt says

Ken Wyatt says the Voice referendum was too complicated as he called on national cabinet to urgently focus on closing the gap and reviewing Indigenous spending.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Former Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt.

Constitutional recognition and the Voice fell flat in the Liberal years. Ken Wyatt reveals why

The former Coalition Indigenous Australians minister said if Josh Frydenberg had retained his seat of Kooyong at the last election, the Liberal Party would not have rejected the Voice.

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Frydenberg rules out Kooyong run as Wyatt laments his absence

Ken Wyatt claimed his former colleague would have changed the essence of the Voice referendum if he was still in parliament, as the ex-treasurer ruled out a return.

  • Paul Sakkal and Hamish Hastie
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Leeser quits opposition frontbench in blow to Dutton’s Voice referendum strategy

Julian Leeser has moved to the backbench to campaign for the Voice in a move that could embolden more pro-Voice backbench Liberals to follow him.

  • Paul Sakkal, Lisa Visentin, James Massola and Angus Thompson
Ken Wyatt has quit the Liberal Party after Peter Dutton said he would lobby for the No campaign.

Dutton deepens divisions with Voice rejection

He was once ‘Peter the pragmatist’, but the opposition leader’s success in holding the Liberal show together has been strictly limited.

  • Michelle Grattan

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